Saskia Nitsche

Photo: Malina Ebert

Saskia is a Berlin-based writer, lecturer, editor, narrative coach, and yoga teacher.

She holds a degree in Creative Writing for the Stage from the University of the Arts Berlin and studied Literary Writing at the Literaturinstitut Leipzig.

Besides her own writing, Saskia teaches creative writing in art universities across Germany. She has worked with aspiring authors and other creatives, such as designers and visual artists, helping the former write strong prose and plays and the latter communicate their work and vision through powerful stories.

As a freelance editor for various publishing houses, including Ullstein, Piper, and Bookouture Deutschland, among others, over the past nine years, she has worked on over 100 books.

Saskia has a passion for self-development and the healing arts. In 2021, she founded WOW & FANCE, a research lab that offers workshops and classes exploring somatic approaches to writing. She regularly teaches Yoga & Writing Classes for WOW & FANCE.

She has her own coaching practice, focusing on narrative coaching and helping leaders in the transformational field tell empowering stories to inspire growth and change.

Her greatest joy is helping others birth stories that support transformation amongst those who get to read or hear them.

Studies:

Theatre and Comparative Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, BA, 2006–2010

Creative Writing for the Stage, University of the Arts Berlin, BA/MA, 2010–2014

Literary Writing, exchange terms, Literaturinstitut Leipzig, 2012–2013

Visual Communication, guest student, University of the Arts Berlin, 2016–2017

Other education:

Licensed as an alternative health practitioner, 2022

200 hours of Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, 2023–2024

60 hours of Yin Yoga Teacher Training, 2023–2024

Coaching and Personal Development, Arche Medica, Berlin, 2024

Narrative Therapy and Counseling, IfR Hamburg, 2025 (in progress)

Internships at:

E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Theater Bamberg, Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, Schaubühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Literary Agency Elisabeth Ruge, Suhrkamp Verlag

Lectureships at:

Hildesheim Institute of Literary Writing and Literary Studies, University of the Arts Berlin, Braunschweig University of the Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design Halle, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau, Hessen State University of Art and Design Offenbach, SRH Berlin School of Popular Arts, and others

Invitations, nominations, and awards:

Nominated for the Munich Prize for German-speaking Drama / Münchner Förderpreis für deutschsprachige Dramatik (2011), Invitation to the playwright program Stück/für/Stück at Schauspielhaus Vienna (2011), Invitation to the 4+1 Meeting of Young Playwrights at Theater Chemnitz (2012), Invitation to the Kaltstart-Festival Hamburg, Autorenlounge (2014), Invitation to the Vienna program of the Drama Forum UniT Graz / Vienna (2014), 3rd Prize at the Chemnitz Prize for Young Drama / Chemnitzer Theaterpreis (2015), 1st Prize at the Drama Prize of the Zwischen/Wege-Festival, Literature Bureau Freiburg (2015), Digital Residency Scholarship at Hôtel des Autrices, Réseau des Autrices francophone de Berlin (2021)

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