Laura Naumann was born in 1989 and grew up in the Ore Mountains.
She studied creative writing and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim and screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). She is co-founder of the game theatre collective machina eX and the performance theatre collective Henrike Iglesias, with which she toured nationally and internationally between 2012 and 2022.
In 2006 and 2008, she won awards at the "Treffen Junger Autoren" (young writer's meet) of the Berliner Festspiele; in 2008 she was invited to the playwrights' workshop at the Berlin Theatertreffen's Stückemarkt, and in 2009 she took part in the World Interplay Festival for young playwrights in Australia. Her first play, süßer vogel undsoweiter (sweet bird andsoforth), received the Munich Award for New German-Language Drama (Münchner Förderpreis für neue deutschsprachige Dramatik) in 2009, was presented in a workshop production at the Autorentage and premiered in its English translation at the Australian Theatre For Young People. In November 2021, the radio play adaptation of her play Das hässliche Universum (The Ugly Universe) was produced by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and selected as Radio Play of the Month.
Her debut novel Haus aus Wind (House of Wind) was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2024.
