Sasha Marianna Salzmann (born in Volgograd, Soviet Union on 21 August 1985) is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist.

‘One reason is Sasha Marianna Salzmann who is director of the most exciting experimental theatre in Germany—Studio Я.’[25] In 2016, the verdict of German theatre magazine Die Deutsche Bühne was equally enthusiastic: ‘Salzmann, with their sensitive eye for the brutality of the present age and their biographical glimpses into the past, is perhaps the German-language dramatist of the moment’ (Detlev Baur).

The one thing it doesn’t mean is: I’m keeping out of this.’[30] 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 Jew’), a theatre monologue by Sivan Ben Yishai.

[30][31][32] During a residency at the Tarabaya Arts Academy in Istanbul in 2012/13, Salzmann began work on their debut novel, Beside Myself,[33] which they finished writing on subsequent visits to Turkey.

[26] 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.