Every moment of daily life is political
Total hours: 16h
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat
Sasha Marianna Salzmann, author of Llengua Materna Mameloschn, is one of the most interesting playwrights on the German theatre scene.
What do I want to write, myself? What does this self wants and who is this self really in relation with the whole of society?
In this exchange of impressions on writing as a political process and artistic anchorage, Sasha Marianna Salzmann will be talking with the course participants about strategies, the writer’s trade and inspiration in everyday life. How do I translate political situations into personal relations on a stage? And how are private stories between people a microcosm that reproduces the macrocosm?
We will be working on specific questions; in the best of cases, with plays that are being worked on at that very moment. However, this will not be a mandatory requirement.
Within the GREC 2017 Festival of Barcelona.
With the support of Goethe Institut-Barcelona
Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a novelist, playwright, essayist and curator. Salzmann’s theatre works (among which there is Mameloschn Mother Tongue, which could be seen at Sala Beckett in 2016) have been translated into more than 20 languages and have been awarded, among others, with the Academy of the Arts’ Art Prize for Theater 2020. In 2017, the debut novel Außer sich was published and translated into 16 languages. In autumn 2021, Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein was published. Both novels were nominated for the German Book Prize. In 2022 Sasha Marianna Salzmann was awarded with the Prize of Literaturhäuser for their “exceptional oeuvre”.
Admission to the course will be based on order of arrival and CV assessment, which should be sent (with photograph included), filling in the form on the right.
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The dates indicated for each course or seminar may be subject to variations in exceptional circumstances. These will be notified when applicable.
For the course to take place, a minimum number of students must be registered. If this number is not reached, the course will be cancelled and the student will have the option of registering for a different course (providing that there are places available) or alternatively will receive a refund of the amount paid (100%). If a student withdraws, a refund of 75% of the registration fee will be applicable, providing that written notice is given at least 10 days before the start of the course.