Born in Jerusalem, Ofer moved to Berlin in 1999 as a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and played in several German and Israeli orchestras, including the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New Israeli Opera. Following his musical career, Waldman completed his Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin (German Studies) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jewish History). He currently works full-time as a freelance author and journalist. In 2021, he won the ARD German Radio Play Prize together with Noam Brusilovsky for the radio play “Adolf Eichmann: Ein Hörprozess” (RBB/DLF). His literary debut, “Singularkollektiv. Erzählungen”, was published by Wallstein Verlag in 2023. In April 2024, Suhrkamp Verlag published the book “Gleichzeit. Briefe zwischen Israel & Europa” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman, holding reflections on Israel/Palestine and Germany in the aftermath of October 7th, 2023. Waldman is active in several civil society NGOs in Germany and Israel and advises a number of German and Israeli political, cultural and civil society organisations and institutions. He divides his time between Israel and Germany.