Yade Yasemin Önder, born in 1985 in Wiesbaden, studied German Literature and Social Sciences in Berlin and Literary Writing at the German Literature Institute Leipzig with a stay at the UdK in the course Scenic Writing. Her piece Kartonage was one of the three texts that have been selected during the Autorentheatertage 2017 and was premiered at the Burgtheater Wien in coproduction with Deutsches Theater. »The condensed state of her lanugage that reminds of frozen formulas draws you immediately into her world« wrote the jury of the Autorentheatertage.