The Departments of Germanic Studies and International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies are proud to welcome acclaimed German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist Sasha Marianna Salzmann to the University of Sydney.

The author of two novels, author and co-author of ten plays, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, Sasha Marianna Salzmann is currently writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, where she was also artistic director of the studio theatre from 2013-2015. Most recently, Salzmann won the 2018 Mara-Cassens Prize for her first novel, Außer Sich, from the English translation of which, entitled Beside Myself, she will read.

The reading will be followed by the author in conversation with Dr Brangwen Stone (Department of Germanic Studies), an expert on modern German literature and theatre. There will also be an opportunity for audience questions and discussion in English and German.

Free entry and all welcome – online registrations required by Friday 16 August 2019, 5pm.

This event is supported by the Goethe Institute Australia.