Marianna Salzmann

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Marianna Salzmann at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017
Sasha Marianna Salzmann at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017

Sasha Marianna Salzmann (born August 21, 1985 in Volgograd , Soviet Union ) is a German playwright, essayist, curator and novelist. She is the in-house author at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin and also directed the studio stage there, the Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015 .

Life

Salzmann grew up in Moscow . In 1995 she emigrated with her family as a Jewish quota refugee to Germany, studied literature, theater and media and scenic writing at the University of the Arts in Berlin at the University of Hildesheim . While she was still studying in Hildesheim , some of her poems and short stories were printed in various magazines. Together with Deniz Utlu , Mutlu Ergün, Marcela Knapp and Mike Klesse, she founded the culture and society magazine freitext and was its editor for 12 years. In addition to her studies, Salzmann and Wera Mahne staged “An Assassination on Godot”, an adaptation of Beckett's classic, and “Rot werden”, a sarcastic love monologue to Vladimir Putin. Together with the music theater collective forte blau , Salzmann developed projects for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing. On the subject of “hearing voices”, she worked with the Grenzkollektiv on the Jeanne d'Arc parody “Jeanne is dead and will not come around today”.

During her studies of scenic writing in Berlin her first full-length play won white bread music to wienerwortstaetten Price 2009 and the IKARUS 2012 as the best young pieces. In 2012 she was awarded the Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for the play Birthmarks Window Blue . Salzmann's graduation piece at the University of the Arts mother tongue Mameloschn was honored in 2013 as the best piece of the year with the Mühlheim Audience Award. In surveys of theater critics, the play and author topped the rankings in the categories of Best Play, Best Young Writer and Dramatist of the Year. After completing her studies in scenic writing, Salzmann founded the New Institute for Dramatic Writing together with Maxi Obexer . She teaches political writing, initiates workshops and readings, now internationally.

Salzmann has been the resident author of the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin since 2013 . As the head of the independent artist group Conflict Zone Arts Asylum , she was in charge of the studio „ : “ The Maxim-Gorki-Theater is the “Theater of the Year”. This is also due to Sasha Marianna Salzmann, who heads Germany's most exciting experimental stage there: the Studio Я ” (Stefan Grund, Die Welt ). In 2016 the theater magazine Die Deutsche Bühne judged : "With her sensitive view of a brutal present and her biographical looks back, Salzmann is perhaps the German-speaking playwright of the hour." (Detlev Baur).

Together with Max Czollek , Salzmann initiated the Disintegration Congress (2016) and the Radical Jewish Culture Days (2017), two social sculptures in which international protagonists artistically dealt with questions of contemporary Jewish identity. “The Maxim Gorki Theater used to be a post-migrant theater, now it's a disintegration theater. Disintegration means: I don't participate. But it doesn't mean: I stay out of it. ”(Dirk Pilz, Berliner Zeitung) Salzmann was co-curator of the program and himself staged The Story of the Life and Death of the New Juppi Ja Jey Juden, a theater monologue by Sivan Ben Yishai.

prose

During her stay in Istanbul in 2012/13 as a scholarship holder of the Tarabya Culture Academy, Sasha Marianna Salzmann began working on her first novel, which she finished in the following years during her regular visits to Turkey. Besides itself was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in September 2017. The novel is about a pair of twins who first grow up in a small two-room apartment in Moscow during the post-Soviet years and then in a home for asylum seekers in the West German provinces and at the same time tells a Jewish family story spanning four generations. Salzmann received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation's Literature Prize 2017 for her debut novel. The jury praised the work as a "daring and successful balancing act between cultural and gender identities" and as "a multi-faceted generational panorama from the Soviet Union in the 20th century to contemporary Europe" . In the same year, Except himself was on the shortlist of the German Book Prize . In 2018, the Mara Cassens Prize followed for the "deeply provocative debut novel". Beside is translated into 15 languages.

Works

theatre

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marianna Salzmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Message from the Maxim Gorki Theater on "Wir Zopf" ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 3, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gorki.de
  2. ↑ Alexander Viktorin, Max Büch: Marianna Salzmann on the mother tongue Mameloschn . Interview with Marianna Salzmann, in: kultivision, YouTube channel, May 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Marianna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzmann, Sasha Marianna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Volgograd