Sibel Kekilli

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Sibel Kekilli, 2017

Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn ) is a German actress . She became known as the leading actress in Fatih Akin's multiple award-winning film Gegen die Wand , as Shae in the US fantasy series Game of Thrones and through the role of Sarah Brandt in the Kiel crime scene . She received the German Film Prize twice for her portrayals and was named best actress at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival .

youth

Sibel Kekilli was born in Heilbronn in 1980 as the daughter of a worker and a cleaning lady. She has a dizygoti twin sister and two younger brothers. She describes her parents, who came to Germany from a mountain village in the Turkish province of Kayseri in 1977 , as "relatively modern Muslim parents" who let them go to the outdoor pool and on school trips and who never forced a headscarf on her; her mother did not wear a headscarf either. You should not, however, by the will of their parents Abitur make, and could not even with their 10th grade in the final ride to the camp school to attend. Kekilli attended the Fritz Ulrich School in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen , which she graduated from the 10th grade with an average grade of 1.7 and secondary school leaving certificate. In 1999 she applied to be released from Turkish citizenship in order to be able to take on German citizenship .

From September 1997 to February 2000 she completed an apprenticeship as an administrative clerk at the Heilbronn city administration and worked in the administration of the municipal waste disposal companies until July 2002. Because Heilbronn was “somehow too narrow-minded, too small”, she quit there after two years and moved to Essen . She then worked as a saleswoman, bouncer, cleaner, manager of a nightclub , waitress, promoter and model, for example for the magazine Coupé and for the photographer Tamara Amhoff-Windeler .

In 2001 she worked under pseudonyms in several porn films over a period of six months , including for the directors Josef Baumberger and Harry S. Morgan . After Kekilli's breakthrough as a character actress, sales of these films rose.

Acting career

In August 2002, Kekilli was approached on the street by a casting agent in Cologne, asking if she would like to act in a film by director Fatih Akin . She accepted and won the casting for the female lead in the film Gegen die Wand against around 350 female competitors. In 2002 and 2003, Kekilli took three weeks of acting and improvisation lessons as well as voice and speech training at the Bochum Drama School . The film was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2004 , and in Barcelona it also received the European Film Award for best European film of 2004. Sibel Kekilli also received several important film awards for her performance in this film. Filming in Turkey had turned out to be extremely difficult as Kekilli had to be treated in a hospital because of suspected appendicitis.

Kekilli has since worked in a number of international feature film productions. For her first leading role in a Turkish feature film, Eve Dönüş (2006), she was honored as best actress at the most important national film festival in Turkey, the Golden Orange Film Festival . Also in 2006, in the Holocaust film The Last Train, she played one of the Jewish women who were transported from the Berlin-Grunewald station to Auschwitz on the last train, and in Winterreise she played the young Kurdish Leyla, who interpreted an older man who was involved with Kenyan fraudsters , accompanied to Africa. In 2008 she had a bigger role as Layla in the movie Bloody City from the series Nachtschicht . In the Finnish feature film Pihalla (German distribution title Auf dem Spielplatz) , Kekilli played a German mother in 2009 who moved from Hamburg to Tampere with her husband and a young daughter, who were very busy at work and where, after culture shock and loneliness, began an affair with a family café owner and rock singer.

She had her first title role in the movie Die Fremde , which premiered at the Berlinale 2010 , as a German of Kurdish origin who broke out of a marriage in Istanbul in order to lead a self-determined life with her son in Germany. This role earned her not only the Bernhard Wicki Film Prize , the Actor Prize of the Turkey / Germany Film Festival and, for the second time, the German Film Prize , but also the award for best actress at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York . In her acceptance speech for the German Film Prize, Kekilli pointed out that, although she was ready to play anything, she missed role offers. In the past she had repeatedly expressed the wish not to be tied to the role model of characters of Turkish origin.

Sibel Kekilli 2017
Sibel Kekilli, 2017

She moved further and further away from this role cliché, in particular through her series roles as Sarah Brandt in Tatort Kiel at the side of Axel Milberg (2010-2017) and as a prostitute Shae in the American television series Game of Thrones produced by HBO based on the novel series Das Lied von Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (2011–2014). In this role she was seen in the first four seasons of the series, in the German version she dubbed herself. In the two-part TV series Gier by Dieter Wedel (2010) she played the character of Nadja Hartmann, who was surrounded by a cocky investment fraudster, played by Ulrich Tukur , sunning. In 2011, Kekilli was first seen in a leading role in a film comedy with What a Man , directed by Matthias Schweighöfer . In the feature film The Men of Emden , published in 2013, about the history of the crew of the cruiser Emden in World War I , she portrayed Salima Bey.

Kekilli also works as an audio book speaker. In 2005, she read the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen as part of the audio book series Strong Voices of the women's magazine Brigitte . She was also the lead actress in a music video for the Rosenstolz group for the benefit single Aus Liebe I want to see everything . With Tatort Borowski and the Fest des Nordens , she left the Tatort Kiel in 2017 in order to free up more time for other role offers and projects.

In 2017 she portrayed the older sister of a German-Turkish Salafist in the four-part television series Brother - Black Power . In 2018, she played the lead role of the Chechen terrorist Madina Taburova in the Belgian-German-Finnish joint production Bullets , a 10-part television series. In the 2019 episode film Berlin, I Love You , she played the taxi driver Yasil.

Media campaign

After Gegen die Wand was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2004, the Bild newspaper made Kekilli's short-term activity as a porn actress known. The reporting sparked heated discussions, expressions of displeasure and expressions of solidarity. “It was really like the saying goes: I was young and needed money,” explained Kekilli. In November 2004, at the Bambi Awards, which were televised, she called on Bild und Express to end "this dirty smear campaign". Michael Töteberg described the "smear campaign" of the Bild newspaper as " perfidious ". In December 2004, the German Press Council publicly reprimanded Bild's reporting on Kekilli in accordance with Section 1 of the Press Code for violating human dignity: “The public interest does not cover a form of reporting in which the personality of those affected is reduced to what is said about can read them in the blurbs of porn film cassettes ”. It was not until March 2006 that Bild printed the complaint on page 4.

In January 2005, the Berlin Court of Appeal prohibited Bild from publishing and distributing a nude photo of Kekilli. The judges judged it as "part of a campaign" to "sneer at Kekilli and make it scornful" and as "an encroachment on human dignity". In September 2010 the broadcaster RTL was legally prohibited from using excerpts from these films.

engagement

Kekilli has been Terre des Femmes ' ambassador since 2004 , among other things she is committed to women's rights . As a child she was fascinated by Islam , but does not feel that she belongs to any religion today. One of her remarks on domestic violence in Muslim families ("I have personally experienced that physical and emotional violence is seen as normal in a Muslim family. Unfortunately, violence in Islam is a cultural asset") was made at an event by the Hürriyet newspaper on December 1st In 2006 in the Berlin House of Representatives , the Turkish Consul General Ahmet Nazif Alpman demonstratively left the room. He told the taz that he saw Kekilli's statements as discrimination against Muslims . At a symposium against violence in the name of honor, jointly organized by Federal President Joachim Gauck and Terre des Femmes, on March 6, 2015, she gave a speech that was published in the FAZ . Sibel Kekilli was the laudator at the presentation of the Anne Klein Women’s Prize to the Kurdin Nebahat Akkoç for her fight against national and domestic violence and the defense of women's rights in Turkey.

During the protests in Turkey in 2013 , Kekilli sided with the demonstrators. In an interview today on June 10, 2013, she said: “That's exactly what I would take to the streets for. For a country that Ataturk founded, introduced women's rights, separated religion from the state and supported children in villages who could never have become doctors or teachers without this help ”. In March 2017 she received the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment .

Private

Sibel Kekilli lives in Hamburg-Altona .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Sibel Kekilli at the 2006 Golden Orange Film Festival

Web links

Commons : Sibel Kekilli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johanna Adorján : It is my life. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 23, 2004 (interview).
  2. ↑ a b Odile Benyahia-Kouider : Islam au diable. Liberation , July 19, 2004, accessed September 10, 2014 (French).
  3. ↑ munzinger.de
  4. ^ A b c Moritz von Uslar : 100 questions for ... Sibel Kekilli . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , June 18, 2004, p. 16
  5. ↑ a b Transcript ( memento of December 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the conversation with Kekilli at Beckmann , March 8, 2004; Retrieved December 19, 2009
  6. ↑ a b c d Kerstin Holzer, Kayhan Özgenc: Alibi for oppression . In: Focus 49/2004 of November 29, 2004.
  7. ↑ Peter Zander: That will shock the Turks . In: Die Welt , February 13, 2004
  8. ↑ a b Gerd Kempf: Heilbronn woman who wanted to make it big . In: Heilbronn voice . February 17, 2004 ( Stimme.de [accessed November 1, 2010]).
  9. ↑ On the set with Sibel Kekilli . ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Journal Frankfurt , March 1, 2004 (interview with Tamara Amhoff-Windeler ).
  10. ↑ a b Julia Schaaf: Porn industry: The twist with sex. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . February 29, 2004, accessed December 11, 2015 .
  11. ^ Olaf Sundermeyer : The pot . Why the Ruhr area determines the Federal Chancellor and Schalke will definitely be German champions. CH Beck , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59134-1 , p. 92-93 .
  12. ↑ Christoph Straßer : Harry S. Morgan . The master of pornography. 1st edition. UBooks-Verlag , Diedorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-86608-125-3 , p. 154 .
  13. ↑ Christopher Schmidt : The cold pleasure. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010.
  14. ↑ Andreas Fasel: "You recognize yourself" . In: Welt am Sonntag , March 7, 2004; Interview with the caster Mai Seck
  15. ↑ Against the wall . (PDF; 1.7 MB) polyfilm.at, press release, p. 6
  16. ↑ Christopher Keil: She gets a job. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 28, 2010, accessed August 30, 2010 .
  17. ↑ Sibel Kekilli: Axel Milberg has a new one . ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) news.de , August 6, 2010
  18. ↑ Press kit for the broadcast. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Norddeutscher Rundfunk , accessed on November 4, 2010 .
  19. ↑ Sibel Kekilli gets off at the “Tatort” . In: The first
  20. ↑ George RR Martin: You Guys Are Scary Good, the Sequel. In: Not A Blog. George RR Martin, July 28, 2010, accessed July 30, 2010 .
  21. ↑ Interview in: Gala, June 19, 2017, accessed on January 23, 2018
  22. ↑ Sibel Kekilli leaves the “Tatort” in Kiel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) , February 2, 2017. Accessed March 26, 2018. 
  23. ↑ Hamburg: New drama series with Sibel Kekilli: “It's a lot about frustration” , Aachener Zeitung , October 28, 2014
  24. ↑ Sibel Kekilli: "I don't give any space to hate" , sueddeutsche.de , December 19, 2019
  25. ↑ Antonia Baum: Berlin, I Love You ": Who just came up with it? Die Zeit 7/2020, February 7, 2019
  26. ^ Michael Töteberg: Gegen die Wand , in: Metzler Film Lexikon , 2nd updated and expanded edition, Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 978-3-476-02068-0 , p. 250
  27. ↑ Press release of the German Press Council of December 2, 2004 ( Memento of May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  28. ^ German press council reprimands "Bild" newspaper , Spiegel Kultur , December 2, 2004
  29. ↑ Bärbel Röben: Media ethics and the "others" , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18554-5 , p. 55
  30. ↑ Sibel Kekilli wins against "Bild". Der Tagesspiegel , January 28, 2005
  31. ↑ RTL is no longer allowed to show sex scenes with Kekilli. In: Spiegel Online , September 25, 2010.
  32. ↑ TERRE DES FEMMES ambassador Sibel Kekilli visits our FLORIKA project in Bulgaria , Frauenrechte.de.
  33. ↑ Claus Christian Malzahn , Anna Reimann: “I am sure that I will move away from Germany at some point” In: Spiegel Online , March 6, 2007 (interview).
  34. ↑ Mariam Schaghaghi: Sibel Kekilli. An interview about forced marriages, honor killings and their new film . In: Berliner Kurier , March 14, 2010. Essentially the same text: Turkish girls have to fight . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 19, 2010
  35. ^ Suzan Gülfirat: Scandal about Sibel Kekilli in Berlin . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 4, 2006.
  36. ↑ Alke Wierth: Sibel Kekilli, the Consul and the Pope . In: taz , December 2, 2006.
  37. ↑ Sibel Kekilli: What scares you, fathers, brothers, husbands? In: faz.net of March 10, 2015.
  38. ↑ Sibel Kekilli's laudation for Nebahat Akkoc , Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 6, 2015.
  39. ↑ Christian Thomann-Busse: Kekilli: “For Ataturk on the street”. ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Heute.de, June 10, 2013
  40. ↑ Gauck calls for more commitment on International Women's Day , faz.net, March 8, 2017.
  41. ↑ “Altona is rebellious and village-like”. In: Scene Hamburg . June 15, 2016, accessed August 23, 2020 .
  42. ↑ Playground movie . Kino.de , December 11, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Kekilli, Sibel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn