Özgür Uludag

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Özgür Uludag

Özgür Uludag (born January 30, 1976 in Hamburg ) is a Turkish-born journalist , video journalist and author .

Life

Özgür Uludag was born in Hamburg as the son of Turkish migrant workers. Özgür Uludag passed his Abitur in 1997 and is a state-certified commercial assistant in the foreign language secretariat. From 1997 he studied with Gernot Rotter at the University of Hamburg at the Institute for Oriental Studies , Islamic Studies , Turkish Studies and at the Institute for Social Sciences Political Science , Philosophy and Migration Sociology . He completed his studies with Sven Kalisch at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Since 2011 he has been doing his doctorate with Anja Pistor-Hatam and Uta Klein at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on the subject of "The burial of Muslims in Germany and the decision-making criteria for choosing one's own grave or that of relatives using the example of Muslims with Turkish roots in Hamburg"".

Since December 2009 he has been one of the activists in Hamburg's Gängeviertel .

He was the author of the Orient magazine " Zenith " and began an 18-month tri- media editorial traineeship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in 2010 . He then produced and shot reports for the editorial team Die Reportage at NDR television and was involved in productions for the Second German Television ( ZDF ) in the ZDF.zeit and ZDF.zoom editorial offices.

In 2014, together with Michael Richter, he was nominated for the ZDF documentary Riskante Reise - Europa and the flow of refugees for the Grimme Prize in the Information and Culture category and for the Marl Human Rights Prize - Television in the Domestic Documentation category. He had in Istanbul a tug network accompanies the operation of which uncovered and accompanied the fleeing people as far as the Turkish-European border on their flight.

In 2015 he produced a video blog with interviews and contributions for the Theatertreffen at the 2015 Berliner Festspiele as part of the Rudolf Augstein grant and received the Richard Holbrooke research grant, which is awarded by the " International Journalism Program" .

In 2018 the multimedia story "A Church Becomes a Mosque" was nominated for a Grimme Online Award in the category: Culture and Entertainment. The article is about the rededication of the Kapernaum Church in Hamburg-Horn into the "Masjid Al-Nour" mosque of the Islamic Center Hamburg.

Nomination and Scholarships

  • 2014 Grimme Prize in the category: Information and Culture for the ZDF documentary "Risky Travel - Europe and the Flow of Refugees"
  • 2014 Amnesty International / Marl Human Rights Award in the category: domestic documentation
  • 2015 Rudolf-Augstein Scholarship for Social Affairs, Journalism and Art: Theatertreffenblog 2015 at the Berliner Festspielhaus
  • 2015 Richard Holbrooke Research Fellowship for Middle East: Israel / Palestine
  • 2018 Grimme Online Award in the category: Culture and entertainment for the multimedia story "A church becomes a mosque"

Others

He had short appearances at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg under the direction of Sebastian Hartmann ( Biedermann und die Brandstifter - Max Frisch ), Martin Kušej ( Zur Schönen Aussicht - Ödön von Horváth ) and Jürgen Gosch ( Nachtasyl - Maxim Gorki ). He also had extra roles in the cinema productions " Soul Kitchen " ( Fatih Akin ), " Alles Läge " ( Heiko Schier ) and " Marco W. - 247 days in a Turkish prison " ( Oliver Dommenget ). He is also an active member of Hamburg's Gängeviertel.

Publications

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grimme Prize: Nominations 2015 ( Memento from April 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Gängeviertel
personal data
SURNAME Uludag, Özgür
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uludağ, Özgür
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-born journalist, VJ and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Bergedorf