Marianna Salzmann is a freelance writer who lives in Berlin and Istanbul. She studied literature/theater/media at the University of Hildesheim and scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her poetry, essays, and short plays have been published in various magazines. She is the co-founder of the culture and society magazine freitext.
Salzmann initiated various literature workshops as co-founder of the Neues Institut für Dramatisches Schreiben. Since 2013 she has been the in-house writer at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, running its studio stage as the head of the free group Conflict Zine Arts Asylum.