Yasmine Salimi, born 1986 in Cologne, studied German, French and Philosophy in Bonn, Paris and Cologne. During her studies, she gained her first experience in dramaturgy and directing through internships, assistantships and courses, among others at the theater collective futur3, Schauspiel Köln and studiobühneköln. For two years, she founded and directed the German-French university theater group Projets & Projecteurs. She also wrote for the theater editorial team of the Cologne city magazine StadtRevue. After graduating, she worked for the k3 berlin agency in press and public relations for cultural projects. She then began her doctoral studies in modern German literary studies at the University of Cologne on the topic of „Theater Tribunals“ and was briefly a scholarship holder of the International Research Training Group InterArt at the Free University of Berlin. She is also a translator for German and French and currently works as a freelance dramaturge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.