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'''Sasha Marianna Salzmann''' (born in [[Volgograd]], Soviet Union on 21 August 1985) is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist.<ref name=MSlaurMunzinger>{{cite web|title= Sasha Marianna Salzmann, deutsche Schriftstellerin|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Sasha+Marianna+Salzmann/0/31084.html|publisher=Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg|accessdateaccess-date=12 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=MSlautBR>{{cite web|url= https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/radiotexte/sasha-marianna-salzmann-102.html|title=Shooting-Star der deutschen Literaturszene |publisher=Bayerischer Rundfunk, München|date=26 November 2017| accessdateaccess-date=12 February 2018}}</ref> SheThey isare a writer in residence at the [[Maxim Gorki Theatre]] in Berlin where shethey waswere artistic director of the studio theatre, Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015.<ref name=MSSpiegelSep2017>{{cite web|title=Wer bestimmt deine Identität?| work=Generationenroman "Außer sich" .... Migration, Antisemitismus, Identität: Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Hausautorin des Berliner Gorki-Theaters, erzählt in ihrem Debütroman "Außer sich" die mitreißende Geschichte einer jüdischen Transperson.| author=Tobias Hausdorf|date=8 September 2017| url= http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/ausser-sich-von-sasha-marianna-salzmann-wer-bestimmt-deine-identitaet-a-1163291.html|publisher=[[Der Spiegel]] (online)|accessdateaccess-date=12 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=Umwasgehts>{{cite web| url= http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/marianna-salzmann-was-passiert-im-studio-ia.970.de.html?dram:article_id=313879| title=Was passiert im Studio Я?| publisher=Deutschlandradio (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Köln| date=11 March 2015|accessdateaccess-date=12 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gorki.de/de/ensemble/sasha-marianna-salzmann|title=Sasha Marianna Salzmann|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
== Life ==
Salzmann grew up in Moscow until 1995, when shethey andemigrated herwith familytheir emigratedfamily to [[Germany]] as Jewish [[:de:Kontingentflüchtling|"Quota refugees" (''"Kontingentflüchtlinge"'')]]. SheThey studied literature, drama and media studies at the University of Hildesheim and ''creative writing for the stage'' at the Berlin University of the Arts.
== Theatre Careercareer ==
Throughout hertheir studies in Hildesheim, shethey had poems and short stories published in various magazines, and, together with [http://denizutlu.de/ Deniz Ultu], [[Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz|Mutlu Ergün]], [https://edeos.org/team/marcela-knapp/ Marcela Knapp] and Mike Klesse, shethey founded the cultural and social magazine [[:de:Freitext|''freitext'']], where shethey wasworked as editor from 2002 to 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sashamariannasalzmann.com/vita-sasha-marianna-salzmann/|title=Sasha Marianna Salzmann Personal Website|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://freitext.com/autoren/marianna-salzmann/|title=Marianna Salzmann -– freitext|work=freitext|access-date=2019-03-24|language=de-DE}}</ref> Alongside hertheir studies, shethey also staged two plays with Wera Mahne: ''Ein Attentat auf Godot'' (‘An Attempt on Godot’), a loose adaptation of Beckett’s classic,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.langeleine.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/faustspiele_prog.pdf|title=Off-Theater-Festival FAUST-Spiele 2007|last=|first=|date=1 November 2007|work=Kulturzentrum FAUST|access-date=24 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www1.muelheim-ruhr.de/kunst-kultur/theater/stuecke/marianna_salzmann/180|title=Salzmann, Marianna|date=2013-03-03|website=Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr|language=de|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref> and ''Rot Werden'' (‘Turning Red’), a sarcastic romantic monologue to Vladimir Putin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://p106499.typo3server.info/index.php?id=21&evt=657|title=BALLHAUS NAUNYNSTRASSE :: Event -– Einzelansicht -– 3s|website=p106499.typo3server.info|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/ru/%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/a-16012341|title=Путин как объект желания {{!}} DW {{!}} 14.06.2012|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|first=Deutsche|website=DW.COM|language=ru-RU|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref name="MSlautAP">{{cite web|url= http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/putin-ist-ein-neuer-typus-mann/6281472.html|date=3 March 2012|title="Putin ist ein neuer Typus Mann"|work=Die Berliner Dramatikerin Marianna Salzmann über die Wahlen in Russland.|author= Anna Pataczek |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, Berlin|accessdateaccess-date=13 February 2018}}</ref> In collaboration with the music theatre collective ''forte blau'', Salzmann developed projects for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sashamariannasalzmann.com/geistern-folgen/|title=Sasha Marianna Salzmann {{!}} Geistern folgen|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> With ''Grenzkollektiv'', shethey created a parody of the Joan of Arc story—''Jeanne ist tot und kommt heute nicht mehr vorbei'' (‘Joan’s Dead and Won’t be Coming Round Today’).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laft.de/spielplan-niedersachsen/veranstaltung/769-grenzkollektiv-weltrettungsauftrag.html|title=COMMEDIA FUTURA: Grenzkollektiv -– Weltrettungsauftrag {{!}} 03.11.2011 20:00, Hannover -– Spielplan Freier Theater in Niedersachsen -|website=www.laft.de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>
During hertheir studies in Berlin, Salzmann’s first full-length play ''Weißbrotmusik'' (Engl.: "white bread music") won the Wiener Wortstaettenpreis 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/buehne/35384_Ventil-der-Gewalt.html|title=Ventil der Gewalt -– Nestroyhof mit "Weißbrotmusik"|last=Huber-Lang|first=Wolfgang|website=Bühne -– Wiener Zeitung Online|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref name="MSlautWW">{{cite web|url=http://www.wortstaetten.at/projects/marianna-salzmann/|title=Marianna Salzmann|publisher=Wiener Wortstaetten|accessdateaccess-date=13 February 2018}}</ref> and the IKARUS Prize for Best Youth Play 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jugendkulturservice.de/de/theater/ikarus/ikarus-archiv/beitraege-archiv/ikarus-2012.php|title=IKARUS 2012|website=jugendkulturservice.de|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> In 2012, shethey waswere also awarded the [[Kleist Prize|Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists]] for hertheir play ''Muttermale Fenster blau'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6481&catid=126&Itemid=100089|title=Kleist-Förderpreis für Marianna Salzmann|last=Kasch|first=Georg|website=nachtkritik.de|language=de-de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> and in 2013, hertheir graduation play ''Muttersprache Mameloschn'' (Engl.: "mother tongue Mameloschn")<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www1.muelheim-ruhr.de/kunst-kultur/theater/stuecke/muttersprache_mameloschn/181|title=Muttersprache Mameloschn|date=2013-03-03|website=Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> won the Mülheim Audience Award for Play of the Year and was voted Best Play by theatre critics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/a-z/muttersprache_mameloschn/|title=Deutsches Theater Berlin -– Muttersprache Mameloschn, von Sasha Marianna Salzmann|last=Berlin|first=Deutsches Theater|website=www.deutschestheater.de|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> In 2018, shethey waswere awarded the [[Nestroy Theatre Prize]] for ''best off production'' for that same play.
In 2014, shethey andcollaborated with [[Margareth Obexer |Maxi Obexer]] in co-foundedfounding the NIDS, ''[http://nids.eu/ Neues Institut für Dramatisches Schreiben]'' (Engl.: "New Institute for Writing for the Stage"),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nids.eu/?p=87|title=Nutshell {{!}} NIDS {{!}} Neues Institut für dramatisches Schreiben|last=NIDS|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref name="NIDSlautEventful">{{cite web|url= http://berlin.eventful.com/events/nids-neues-institut-f%C3%BCr-dramatisches-schre-/E0-001-075365397-6|title=NIDS – Neues Institut für Dramatisches Schreiben [launch]|publisher= Entercom Communications Corp.|accessdateaccess-date=13 February 2018}}</ref> an institute whose purpose is to raise public awareness of the societal importance of the art of drama, and to strengthen a kind of art whose original function was to encourage a type of culture that encourages critical debates and discussions.
[[File:20181103 CrossingBorder-0184.jpg|thumb|260x260px|Sasha Marianna Salzmann at the Crossing Border Festival in Den Haag, 2018]]
Since 2013, Salzmann has been writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin,<ref name="MSSpiegelSep2017" /> where shethey previously headed the Conflict Zone Arts Asylum collective at Studio Я,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gorki.de/de/ensemble/sasha-marianna-salzmann|title=Sasha Marianna Salzmann|website=Sasha Marianna Salzmann {{!}} Gorki|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> an "undernational network of artists, activists, authors, performers and curators who believe that aesthetics is the better ethics, art the better politics, language the most powerful force."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gorki.de/en/studio-ya/studio-ya-conflict-zone-arts-asylum|title=STUDIO Я CONFLICT ZONE ARTS ASYLUM|website=Gorki Theater|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref>
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‘The Maxim Gorki Theatre is the “Theatre of the Year”,’ ''Welt'' journalist Stefan Grund wrote. ‘One reason is Sasha Marianna Salzmann who is director of the most exciting experimental theatre in Germany—Studio Я.’<ref name="MSlautSG">{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/kultur/article143712767/Die-Ya-Sagerin-aus-Berlin.html|title= Die Ya-Sagerin aus Berlin|author=Stefan Grund |date= 8 July 2015 |work=Das Maxim-Gorki-Theater ist das „Theater des Jahres“. Das liegt auch an Marianna Salzmann, die dort die spannendste Experimentierbühne Deutschlands leitet|publisher=Axel Springer SE (WELT digital), Berlin|accessdateaccess-date= 13 February 2018}}</ref> In 2016, the verdict of German theatre magazine ''[[Die Deutsche Bühne]]'' was equally enthusiastic: ‘Salzmann, with hertheir sensitive eye for the brutality of the present age and hertheir biographical glimpses into the past, is perhaps ''the'' German-language dramatist of the moment’ (Detlev Baur).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/beside_yourself-sasha_marianna_salzmann_42762.html?d_view=english|title=Beside Myself: Novel von Sasha Marianna Salzmann -– Suhrkamp Insel Bücher Buchdetail|website=www.suhrkamp.de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>
Together with [[Max Czollek]], Salzmann curated the ‘Disintegration Congress’ (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/archiv/detail/desintegration.html|title=Desintegration {{!}} Kulturstiftung des Bundes|website=www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> and the ‘Radical Jewish Culture Days’ (2017),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/radikale-juedische-kulturtage-am-maxim-gorki-theater-ein.1079.de.html?dram:article_id=400893|title="Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage" am Maxim Gorki Theater -– Ein Festival der Provokation und Selbstbefragung|website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gorki.de/de/radikale-juedische-kulturtage|title=Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage|website=Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage {{!}} Gorki|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>, two social sculptures where international figures addressed questions of contemporary Jewish identity. ‘The Maxim Gorki Theatre used to be a post-migrant theatre,’ Dirk Pilz wrote in the ''Berliner Zeitung''. ‘Now it’s a disintegration theatre. Disintegration means: ''I’m not joining in.'' The one thing it doesn’t mean is: ''I’m keeping out of this.''’<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://sashamariannasalzmann.com/radikalen-juedischen-kulturtage/|title=Sasha Marianna Salzmann {{!}} RADIKALE JÜDISCHE KULTURTAGE|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> As part of the Radical Jewish Culture Days, Salzmann directed ''Die Geschichte vom Leben und Sterben des neuen Juppi Ja Jey Juden'' (‘The Life and Death of the New Yippee Yeah Yeah Jews’Jew’), a theatre monologue by Sivan Ben Yishai.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14587&catid=52&Itemid=100476|title=Die Geschichte vom Leben und Sterben des neuen Juppi Ja Jey Juden / Celan mit der Axt – Mit zwei Monologen eröffnen die Radikalen Jüdischen Kulturtage am Berliner Maxim Gorki Theater|last=Hift|first=Gabi|website=nachtkritik.de|language=de-de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.migazin.de/2017/11/09/maxim-gorki-theater-radikal-leitkultur/|title=Maxim Gorki Theater -– Radikal für eine neue jüdische Leitkultur in Deutschland -– MiGAZIN|date=2017-11-09|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>
== Prose ==
During a residency at the [[:De:Tarabya#Kulturakademie|Tarabaya Arts Academy]] in [[Istanbul]] in 2012/13, Salzmann began work on hertheir debut novel, ''Beside Myself'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nopca|first=Jordi|date=2020-01-25|title="Els nostres drets perillen i ens costarà molt recuperar-los"|url=https://llegim.ara.cat/entrevistes/nostres-drets-perillen-costara-recuperar-los_128_2597972.html|access-date=2021-02-02|website=Ara.cat|language=ca}}</ref> which shethey finished writing on subsequent visits to Turkey. The novel was published by Suhrkamp in September 2017.<ref name=":0" /> It is about twins who grow up first in a small flat in post-Soviet Moscow and then in an asylum home in provincial West Germany and, at the same time, it is the story of a Jewish family over four generations. Salzmann was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize for Literature for hertheir debut.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/2017-08-11-artikel-literaturpreis_der_juergen_ponto-stiftung_2017.1356782.html|title=Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung 2017 / Sasha Marianna Salzmann für "Außer sich" prämiert|website=www.boersenblatt.net|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> The jury described ''Beside Myself'' as a ‘daring and accomplished balancing act between cultural and gender identity’ and ‘a multifaceted panorama of generations from the Soviet Union of the twentieth century to present-day Europe.’ The novel was also on the 2017 [[German Book Prize]] shortlist and in 2018 Salzmann won the {{ill|Mara Cassens Prize|de|Mara-Cassens-Preis}} for hertheir ‘deeply provocative debut novel’.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.literaturhaus-hamburg.de/programm/veranstaltungen/2018-01-16/mara-cassens-preis-sasha-marianna-salzmann|title=Mara-Cassens-Preis an Sasha Marianna Salzmann|date=2017-11-01|website=Literaturhaus Hamburg|language=de|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> ''Beside Myself'' has been translated into fifteen languages.
== Works ==
* {{cite book | last=Salzmann | first=Marianna | publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag | title=Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein : Roman | publication-place=Berlin | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-518-43010-1 | oclc=1266337635 | language=de}}
* {{cite book | last=Salzmann | first=Marianna |author-mask=2 | publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag | title=Ausser sich Roman | publication-place=Berlin | date=2017 | isbn=978-3-518-42762-0 | oclc=984748672 | language=de}}
=== English translations ===
* {{cite book | last1=Salzmann | first1=Marianna | last2=Taylor | first2=Imogen | title=Beside myself | publication-place=New York | date=2019 | isbn=978-1-892746-44-3 | oclc=1110145818}}
=== French translations ===
* {{cite book | last1=Salzmann | first1=Marianna | last2=De Oliveira | first2=Claire | title=Hors de soi : roman | publication-place=Paris | date=2019 | isbn=978-2-246-81534-1 | oclc=1089433603 | language=fr}}
=== Spanish translations ===
* {{cite book | last=Salzmann | first=Sasha Marianna | title=Fuera de si | publisher=Seix Barral | publication-place=Barcelona | date=2020 | isbn=978-84-322-3611-2 | oclc=1158415493 | language=es}}
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