Shirin Sojitrawalla

Shirin Sojitrawalla, born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1968, studied German, comparative literature and political science before completing an editorial traineeship at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2000, she has worked as a freelance cultural journalist focusing on theater and literature for various newspapers and radio stations (taz, Theater der Zeit, nachtkritik.de, Deutschlandfunk, SWR, WDR, Frankfurter Hefte and others). From 2016 to 2020 she was a juror at the Berlin Theatertreffen, from 2021 to 2024 she was a member of the jury for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. She lives in Wiesbaden.