Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Sasha Marianna Salzmann was born in Volgograd, Russia. In 1995, she emigrated to Germany, where she studied literature, theatre and media at the University of Hildesheim, and screenwriting at the Berlin University of the Arts. An award-winning dramatist and essayist, she was editor of Freitext– a German culture-and-society magazine – from 2002 to 2013. Salzmann became artistic director of Studio R, at Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theatre, in 2013. She co-founded the New Institute for Dramatic Writing in 2014, with the goal of encouraging debate by bringing the social importance of the arts back into the public consciousness.