Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Sasha Marianna Salzmann (born in Volgograd, Soviet Union on 21 August 1985) is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist. She is writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin where she was artistic director of the studio theatre, Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015. Life Salzmann grew up in Moscow until 1995, when she and her family emigrated to Germany as Jewish :de:Kontingentflüchtling, "Quota refugees" (''"Kontingentflüchtlinge"''). She 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 career Throughout her studies in Hildesheim, she had poems and short stories published in various magazines, and, together witDeniz Ultu Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz, Mutlu ErgünMarcela Knappand Mike Klesse, she founded the cultural and social magazine :de:Freitext, ''freitext'', where she was editor from 2002 to 2013. Alongside her studies, she also staged two plays ...
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Volgograd
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population of slightly over 1 million residents. Volgograd is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, sixteenth-largest city by population size in Russia, the second-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the Volga#Biggest cities on the shores of the Volga, fourth-largest city on the Volga. The city was founded as the fortress of ''Tsaritsyn'' in 1589. By the nineteenth century, Tsaritsyn had become an important river-port and commercial centre, leading to its population to grow rapidly. In November 1917, at the start of th ...
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