Sasha Marianna Salzmann
born in Volgograd in 1985
lived in Moscow until 1995
then here and there in Germany
and right now in Berlin
Highlights
- co-editor of cultural and social magazine freitext from 2002 to 2013
- artistic director of Studio Я from 2013 to 2016
- was writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin until 2016
- their plays are published by Verlag der Autoren
- their novels are published by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Portrait on German television, Tagesschau: Watch the clip
- Portrait for the German Book Prize
- Talking about Beside Myself on Swedish television:
- 200 Women
200 Women
2026
- Co-curation and co-moderation of the literature format “Umbrüche” at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg
- Guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Speech at the “kindly Invited” festival symposium at the COMEDIA Theater in Cologne
- guest speaker at CCCB Barcelona
- Reading tour through Vietnam
- Opening of the asphalt Festival in Düsseldorf
- Poetry Lecture in Hannover
2025
- Featured in *Der Spiegel*
- Participation in *poetica 10*
- Guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Stefan Zweig Poetry Lecture in Salzburg
2024
- Kleist Prize (acceptance speech)
- Ludwig Mülheim Theater Prize
- Publication of *GLEICHZEIT*, a correspondence with Ofer Waldman
- *Reading Kafka: Gay Literacy, Thoughts on Kafka* (essay published by S. Fischer)
- *Riba Faronika* (short story published in *DELFI*, a magazine for new literature)
- Guest lecturer at the German Literature Institute Leipzig
- Dramatization of *Glorious People* at Stadttheater Konstanz
- Co-Curation the festival “What Would James Baldwin Do” together with René Aguigah, Julia Alfandari, and Gürsoy Dogtaș
- The play *Danja, My Demented Century* at the Salzburg Festival
- The play *Danja, My Demented Century* at the Maxim Gorki Theater
- *GLEICHZEIT* book tour
- Trying to write a novel (don’t ask)
2023
- Guest professor at the Arts School for Media, Cologne
- The essay The Great Hunger and the Long Silence is shortlisted for WORTMELDUNGEN-Literaturpreis
- Writer in residence at the Deutschen Haus at NYU, New York
- Member of The Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz
- Glorious People is staged at Staatstheater Nürnberg
- Glorious People is staged at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
- Glorious People is staged at Münchener Kammerspiele
- Writer in residence at MuseumsQuartier, Wien
- Curation of Utopia Eastern Europe together with Max Czollek
- Tries to write a novel, don´t ask
2022
- Prize of the Houses of Literature
- Hermann Hesse Literature Prize for Glorious People
- Glorious People reading tour
- Glorious People is adopted for the stage Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Glorious People in Theater Magdeburg
- Laudatory speech for Maria Stepanova and Olga Radetzkaja (Brücke Berlin Preis)
- Laudatory speech for Serhiy Zhadan (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
- Guest professor at the Arts School for Media, Cologne
2021
- The second novel Glorious People is published by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Glorious People longlisted for the German Bookprize
- Glorious People top of ORF-Bestenliste
- Glorious People Number 1 on SWR-Bestenliste
- Teaching at University of Arts, Wien
- Teaching at Deutsches Literaturinstitut, Leipzig
- Teaching at the University of Arts Berlin
- Curation and hosting of Queer.(l)it for the Literaturhaus Bremen
2020
- Berlin Art Prize for Performing Arts
- Ricarda Huch Poetics Lectureship for “Gender in the Literary World”
- awarded a scholarship of Deutschen Literaturfonds
- writing a second novel, oy wey
2019
- Beside Myself international reading tour
- Beside Myself on the Shortlist for Premio Strega Europeo
- Beside Myself on the Shortlist for The Angelus Central European Literature Award
- Laudatory speech for Nan Goldin (receiving Ruth Baumgarte Prize)
- Poetics-Lecture at the University of Johannes-Gutenberg Mainz
- Afterword for the new translation of James Baldwin´s Giovannis Room
- Premiere of Meteoriten am Teatro El Grito in Buenos Aires
- Directing Sivan Ben Yishai´s Or: You Deserve Your War (Eight Soldiers Moonsick) at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin – nominated for the Friedrich-Luft-Prize as the best staging of the year
- Co-curation of Apropos Gegenwart at the Burgtheater Wien
- Teaching playwrighting at the University of Arts Berlin
2018
- Beside Myself: book tour of German-speaking countries
- Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘War in Peace’ at Studio Я
- Premiere of Beside Myself at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Mother Tongue Mameloschn awarded Nestroy Drama Prize for Best Fringe Production
2017
- Premiere of Ich, ein Anfang (‘Me, a Start’) at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
- Premiere of Eight Easy Steps to Understanding Jihadism at the Youth Theatre Basel and the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘War in Peace’ at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
- Artistic director of the ‘Radical Jewish Culture Days’ at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Debut novel Beside Myself published by Suhrkamp Verlag
2016
- Premiere of Meteorites at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Artistic director of the ‘Dis-integration Congress’ at Studio Я
- Premiere of Die Aristokraten (‘The Aristocrats’) at the Schauspielhaus Hanover
- Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘Shaped by Escape’ at Studio Я
2015
- Premiere of Wir Zöpfe(‘Braided’) at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Premiere of Mother Tongue Mameloschnat Saarbrücken Theatre
- Premiere of Weltrettungsauftrag(‘Mission to Save the World’) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg
2014
- Founds New Institute for Writing for the Stage with Maxi Obexer and launches creative-writing workshop ‘Shaped by Escape’
- Premiere ofMother Tongue Mameloschn at OST in Stuttgart
- Premiere ofMother Tongue Mameloschn at the Kosmos Theatre in Bregenz
2013
- Artistic director of the Gorki’s studio theatre, Studio Я
- Mülheim Audience Award for Mother Tongue Mameloschn
- Premiere of Schwimmen lernen(‘Learning to Swim’) at the Staatstheater in Heidelberg
- Premiere of Schwimmen lernen (‘Learning to Swim’)at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
- Premiere of Kasimir andKaroline (freely adapted from Horváth) at the Staatstheater in Düsseldorf
- Artistic director (together with Deniz Utlu) of creative-writing workshop on new German plays at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin
2012
- Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for Muttermale Fenster Blau (‘Birthmarks Windows Blue’)
- Residency at Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul
- Premiere of Beg your Pardonat Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin
- Premiere of Muttermale Fenster Blau (‘Birthmarks Windows Blue’) at the Ruhr Festival in cooperation with the Badisches Staatstheater
- Premiere of Rot werden (‘Turning Red’) in the Studio Theatre, University of the Arts, Berlin
- Premiere of Mother Tongue Mameloschnat the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Production of WhiteBreadMusic at the Wallgraben Theatre in Freiburg
2011
- Premiere of Satt (‘Fed Up’) at the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich
- Premiere of Weltrettungsauftrag(‘Mission to Save the World’) at the Eisfabrik Hanover
- Premiere of Tod eines Superhelden (‘Death of a Superhero’)at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin
- Premiere of the short play Massensterben der Möglichkeiten (‘Mass Extinction of Possibilities’) at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Production of Satt (‘Fed Up’) at the Casa Nova Theatre in Essen
2010
- Premiere of WhiteBreadMusic at the BAT Berlin
- Austrian premiere of WhiteBreadMusic at the Nestroyhof Theatre in Vienna
2009
- Premiere of geistern folgen (‘following ghosts’) at Hanover Regional Court