Shirin Sojitrawalla

Born in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1968, she studied German Philology, Political Science and Comparative Studies, followed by a traineeship with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2000, she has been working as a freelance cultural journalist for various media. Her chief interest lies in theatre and literature, with excursions into the fields of visual arts and film. Currently, she mainly writes for the online portal nachtkritik.de, the newspaper taz, Theater der Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau and the public radio channel Deutschlandfunk as well as “Wiener Zeitung. Furthermore, she organizes festivals, conducts interviews and moderates readings.