Mevlut Asar
Mevlüt Asar (born May 10, 1951 in Konya , Turkey ) is a Turkish-German writer and poet .
Life
Asar studied political science at Ankara University . He was arrested, charged and tortured twice during the military regime in 1971–1975. At the end of 1977 he moved to Germany with his wife. After studying “German as a Foreign Language” at the University of Cologne, he worked as a teacher and translator from 1980 until his retirement in 2014. In addition, he was an employee of the regional office for the promotion of children and young people from immigrant families (RAA) of the city of Duisburg and member of the committee for multicultural politics in the trade union for education and science in North Rhine-Westphalia .
After Fakir Baykurt's death in 1999, Asar took over the management of the Fakir Baykurt literary café , which the poet founded in 1992 as a working group under the name of the literary café in the international center of the VHS Duisburg.
Literary works by Asar himself have meanwhile been published in several books and various, also national newspapers and magazines, for example in the TAZ .
His “mentor” Fakir Baykurt once assessed “Mevlüt Asar's lyrical charisma” as “rich. Because of the ambiguity of his verses he wins the affection of the readers ”.
For the Westfälische Rundschau, "a lot of the homelessness of his personal biography" is reflected in Asar's poetry, the quintessence of which is "exercising togetherness, getting closer and singing songs together". (Siegener Zeitung)
Works
German
- Dilemma of the stranger. Poems. Gurbet İkilemi. Şiirler. Ortadoğu Printing and Publishing, Oberhausen 1986, ISBN 3-925206-37-X .
- Traces in the heart-Yürekte Kalan İzler. Hückelhoven, Verlag Anadolu, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86121-365-9 .
- Poetry and Hope. BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-1129-9 .
- Lost sea. Sonderpunkt Verlag, June 2017, ISBN 978-3-95407-077-0
Turkish
- Aynadaki Kelebek , öykü, Nezih-Er Yayınları 2014, İzmir ISBN 978-605849271-4
- Denizini Yitiren Martı , şiir, Nezih-Er Yayınları 2015, İzmir ISBN 978-605-9161-08-4
- Aşkın Halleri, öykü-deneme, Nezih-Er Yayınları 2016, İzmir ISBN 978-605-9161-20-6
Participation in anthologies
- Enough for us. A reader against the right. Ed .: Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt (With a foreword by Wolfgang Thierse ), ISBN 3-934852-43-2 .
- Crossing Kavsak. A reading book (German / Turkish). Schulbuchverlag Anadolu , Hückelhoven 1995, ISBN 3-86121-033-9 .
- Poems that flow into friendship-Dostluğa Akan Şiirler. Verlag Anadolu, Hückelhoven 2003, ISBN 3-86121-214-5 .
- Soz ucar, yazi kalir: the spoken vanishes, the written remains. German, Turkish, Dialog, Duisburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812594-2-1
- Change of voices poetry along the Ruhr. Ed .: Literaturbüro NRW - Ruhrgebiet, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0292-3
Awards
- Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize of the City of Duisburg, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Duisburg: Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- ATYG
- German National Library
- traces-in-the-heart / yuerekte-kalan-izler
- Newspaper interview
- Retrospective of the German-Turkish author Mevlüt Asar ,
- Homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asar, Mevlut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-German writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Konya , Turkey |