Ülkü Akbaba

Ülkü Akbaba (* 9. March 1958 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish -österreichische actress , dramaturge , director , film - and playwright . She is also involved as an integration expert in Austrian migration policy .

Life

As a child, Akbaba appeared in a number of Turkish films from the mid-1960s, most recently in Kizim ve ben (German: my daughter and me , 1969).

Until 1980 she played theater in Turkey. Among other things, she had various engagements in Istanbul, where she also took on first assistant directorships . From 1980 she began to work in the Viennese independent theater scene. There she studied acting and directing at the Conservatory and graduated with a master 's degree in theater and film studies .

In the early 1990s she became the artistic director of the IODO theater , where she also staged her own pieces such as The Sea and Women (1990) and The Drum (1992). She later switched her work to cultural projects in the fields of film , literature and science . In 1998 she organized the film festival New Films from Turkey for IODO - Art and Culture , organized reading festivals and shot documentaries .

Filmography

as actress:

• 1974: Kartal yuvasi
• 1970: Avare
• 1969: Kizim ve ben (German: my daughter and I )
• 1968: Agora meyhanesi
• 1966: Eli Masali
• 1966: Oduncunun çocuklari
• 1965: Hiçkirik

as a director (documentaries):

• 1987: And the sky was gray
• 1998: Different Voices
• 2003: Coffee - the way from the Orient to the Occident
• 2008: Cross-border commuters

Web links

• Ülkü Akbaba in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ARD: Coffee - the way from the Orient to the Occident
2. ↑ vienna.at: Women between Migration, Convention and Revolt: Border Crossers offers insights into the different life stories of seven women who live in Vienna.