Özlem Topçu

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Özlem Topçu

Özlem Topçu (born February 12, 1977 in Flensburg ) is a German-Turkish journalist who works as a political editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . She is the recipient of the Theodor Wolff Prize .

Career and achievements

Topçu studied Islamic , political and media studies in Hamburg and Kiel . From 2005 to 2006 she completed a traineeship at the Axel Springer Academy .

From the beginning of 2007 she worked as a freelance journalist and reporter in Hamburg. In 2008, together with Miriam Opresnik, she received the journalist prize of the German newspapers, the Theodor Wolff Prize, for her report on secondary school and migrant - and what are your chances then? which appeared in the Hamburger Abendblatt in 2007 . For a year, the authors accompanied secondary school students about to start their careers. The jury found that the two journalists had understood how to “translate the precise observation of individual fates into plastic and at the same time sober language”. Also in 2008, Topçu was awarded the Regino Prize for her court report on the infanticide process entitled I threw the child from the balcony . According to the jury, the report contained "the right mixture of a factual report on the facts and a sensitive description of the emotional background of the case."

Since August 1, 2009, Topçu has been working as an editor in the politics section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In the week of March 26, 2020, she was responsible for the Twitter presence of the time.

In 2012, together with journalists Alice Bota and Khuê Pham, she published the book Wir neue Deutschen , a portrait of her generation, about which Der Spiegel wrote: “The personal stories of the authors and their parents are at the same time a piece of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, which still - almost 60 years after the arrival of the first guest workers - is too invisible, because their descendants are still far too rarely sitting where they can make themselves visible. "

Since 2012 Topçu has been performing together with the journalists Deniz Yücel , Yassin Musharbash , Mely Kiyak , Özlem Gezer , Hasnain Kazim , Doris Akrap and Ebru Taşdemir as part of the “anti-racist reading show” Hate Poetry , in which they read racist letters to the editor in the style of a poetry slam . “Rarely has racism been so entertaining,” said Die Welt , while the taz spoke of a “ cathartic reading”. In 2014 the founding team of Hate Poetry was named Journalist of the Year in the “Special Prize” category. From May to November 2015 she was on a grant from a foundation in Turkey, where two election campaigns and elections ( election on June 7th and November 1st 2015 ) took place and numerous attacks took place.

Awards

Book publications

Web links

Commons : Özlem Topçu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award-winning text: secondary school students and migrants - and what are your chances then? ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: bdzv.de/twp .
  2. ↑ Four female journalists honored for outstanding judicial reporting. In: beck.de , May 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ Özlem Topçu. In: rowohlt.de .
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/DIEZEIT/status/1242924268184272896
  5. ^ Anna Reimann: The new Germans. In: Spiegel Online , September 8, 2012.
  6. ^ Self-presentation of Hate Poetry ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 20, 2014
  7. ↑ Jan Küveler: "Go back to Fickdeppenarschland" In: Die Welt , February 1, 2013.
  8. ↑ Philipp Gessler: Laughing in the Fickdeppenarschland. In: Die Tageszeitung , April 2, 2012.
  9. ↑ The “Journalist of the Year” 2014: Golineh Atai, WDR / ARD. In: Medium Magazin , December 19, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014.
  10. ↑ Özlem Topçu: In the land of unnecessary death. In: Zeit Online , November 19, 2015.
  11. ↑ Alice Bota , Özlem Topçu, Khuê Pham : “Home is a longing thing” In: Zeit Online , September 6, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Topçu, Özlem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and reporter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg