Özlem Özgül Dündar

Özlem Özgül Dündar at the award reading for the 2015 Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize

Özlem Özgül Dündar (* 1983 in Solingen ) is a German author and translator .

life and work

Özlem Özgül Dündar studied literature and philosophy in Wuppertal . During her studies she had several stays abroad in Ireland, Turkey and Paris. In 2008 and 2009 she worked as a freelancer for the magazine Federwelt . To develop her literary writing, she took part in the Darmstadt text workshop under Kurt Drawert from 2010 to 2011 . Since October 2014 she has been studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .

Özlem Özgül Dündar translates poetry from Turkish, there are two volumes she has translated. Her own works have so far been published in literary magazines (e.g., Also , Dreischneuss , Zeichen & Wunder ) and anthologies. Özlem Özgül Dündar mainly writes poetry and drama . Özlem Özgül Dündar performs her scenic pieces with her artistic collectives GID, Kaltsignal and Kanak Attak Leipzig . Dündar has received several scholarships and award nominations. In 2015 she was awarded the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and the Retzhofer Dramapreis . 2018 was Özlem Dündar Özgül with their text and I burn on a proposal from Insa Wilke to the German Literature Days of Klagenfurt invited, where they face the Kelag was awarded prize.

reception

" Tugging thoughts is the fabulous debut of an author who has a lot to say and from whom we will hopefully hear a lot more." ( Matthias Ehlers )

Publications

Poetry

• Tugging thoughts . Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2018.

Translations

• Hilmi Yavuz: when the time comes . Elif Verlag , Nettetal 2014.
• Lâle Müldür: Translations of selected poems from Turkish . Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2015.

Editions

• Özlem Özgül Dündar, Ronya Othmann, Mia Göhring , Lea Sauer (eds.), FLEXEN. Flâneusen * write cities (including poems by Ronya Othmann), Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-406-1

Awards and grants

• 2010 nominated for the Düsseldorf sponsorship award
• 2011 Merck scholarship in Darmstadt
• 2014 scholarship for the German-Turkish translation project of the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul
• 2014 finalist at the 22nd Open Mike
• 2015 Wolfgang Weyrauch Award 2015
• 2015 Retzhofer Dramapreis for the play Jardin d'Istanbul
• 2017 work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2018 Kelag Prize at the 42nd Days of German-Language Literature
• 2018 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship
• 2019 Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize
• 2020 radio play of the month April for turks, fire

Web links

Commons : Özlem Özgül Dündar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Özlem Özgül Dündar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Özlem Özgül Dündar at the Poetenladen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literary March 2015: Leonce and Lena Prize goes to David Krause - Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship awards for Anja Kampmann and Özlem Özgül Dündar. DarmstadtNews, March 22, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2015 . 
2. ^ Frank Milautzcki: Literarischer March 2015. fixpoetry, March 22, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Martina Weber: ES GIBT / MIR EINEN ORT - Leonce and Lena Competition 2015. Poetenladen, accessed on March 26, 2015 . 
4. ^ Retzhofer Dramapreis to Özlem Özgül Dündar and Miroslava Svolikova. derstandard.at, accessed on June 25, 2015 . 
5. ↑ orf.at: Tanja Maljartschuk wins Bachmann Prize 2018 . Article dated July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018.
6. ↑ Matthias Ehlers: "consumption causing" by Özlem Özgül Dündar. WDR, July 5, 2018, accessed July 7, 2018 .  
7. ↑ Prize winners from 2005 to today. Literary March, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2015 . 
8. ^ Retzhofer Dramapreis to Özlem Özgül Dündar and Miroslava Svolikova. derstandard.at, accessed on June 25, 2015 .