Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a playwright and novelist, essayist and curator and was co-founder of the culture and society magazine freitext. Salzmann's theater works have received numerous awards and have been translated into over 20 languages. Salzmann was in-house playwright at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and artistic director of the theater stage Studio Я. Salzmann's debut “Außer sich” was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2017. The novel received numerous awards, including international ones. In 2021, the second novel “Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein” was published, which, like the debut, was nominated for the German Book Prize and was honored with the Prize of the Houses of Literature and the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize. In 2024, Suhrkamp also published the volume “Gleichzeit”, a correspondence between Ofer Waldman and Sasha Marianna Salzmann about the world after October 7, 2023. In 2024, Sasha Salzmann is the winner of the renowned Kleist Prize, which honors the literary oeuvre as a whole.