The next edition of the Frankfurter Positionen 2017 – Festival for New Works takes place from 27 January until 12 February 2017. In the preliminary series FP Extra, participating artists will speak in advance about their artistic work, their approaches or concepts. Playwright Sasha Marianna Salzmann (*1985) has been commissioned to write a piece, which will premiere at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. Salzmann, who grew up in Volgograd and Moscow, now lives in Berlin and Istanbul. She is in-house playwright at the Gorki in Berlin since 2013 and was artistic director of the Studio Я until 2015.

For more detailed information, visit: www.frankfurterpositionen.de * The Frankfurter Positionen are an initiative of the BHF-BANK-Stiftung * FP Extra is a series organized by the Institute for TFM at the Goethe-University, the HfMDK Frankfurt and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in cooperation with the Verlag der Autoren, the S. Fischer Verlag and the BHF-BANK-Stiftung.