Haratischwili was born and raised in
Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the
Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended seventh and eighth grades of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again to attend drama school in Hamburg.
[1] After working as a theater director in Hamburg for several years, she published her first book,
Juja, in 2010. She became a German citizen in 2012.
Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg.