Sarah Kilter

Sarah Kilter, born 1994 in Berlin to an Algerian father and a mother from Berlin, grew up between the districts of Wedding and Charlottenburg. From 2016 to 2020, she studied Dramatic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) while simultaneously completing her Abitur (German university entrance qualification) at evening school. Since graduating from the UdK Berlin, she has worked as a freelance writer for theatre, radio as well as film and TV.
Her play White Passing was one of three winning plays at the Berlin Autor:innentheatertage in 2021; it premiered on September 4, 2021, as part of the festival at Deutsches Theater Berlin in co-production with Schauspiel Leipzig (directed by Thirza Bruncken). Additionally, the play was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis in 2022, and in the same year, Sarah Kilter was voted Best Emerging Playwright of the Year in the critics' survey conducted by the magazine Theater heute.
Also in 2022, her ARD/Degeto series Lamia aired, exploring a young Muslim woman's search for identity while navigating the tensions between German and Algerian culture.
On September 14, 2024, her play Von Wunden und Wundern (Of Wounds and Wonders) premiered at Schauspiel Leipzig (directed by Marco Damghani). The play originated as a commission, was also funded by the German Literature Fund (Deutscher Literaturfonds), and was published in Theater heute (issue 12/2024).

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