Sanja Bjelica

Sanja was born in Sarajevo in 1989 and grew up in Sweden. After completing her undergraduate studies in English Literature at Malmö university, she moved to Berlin. She continued her graduate studies in International Relations and worked in political PR. She specialized in Culture and Gender Studies and wrote her master thesis on the representation of masculinity in Putin. During her time in Berlin, she developed a deep interest in the socialist cultures of the GDR and the Soviet Union. She loves languages and culture and sees it as her duty to re-discover the best from the past through music, photography and art.