İpek İpekçioğlu

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İpek İpekçioğlu (2012)

İpek İpekçioğlu (* 1972 in Munich ), also known as DJ Ipek , is an internationally renowned, multiple award-winning Berlin DJ , music producer and freelance writer . As an event manager and activist, she is part of the Kanakwood artist network and co-founder of two clubs. In addition, the study takes a social worker on on the theme of "homosexuality and migration" as a speaker.

Life

Training and social engagement

DJ Ipek's dark German-Turkish version of Little Red Riding Hood at the Rudolstadt Festival - a few days before the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016

The Turkish-born German who is openly lesbian studied social pedagogy . She wrote her diploma thesis in 1997 on the subject of Lesbian and Turkish! A contradiction !? Self-image of the lesbian immigrants of the 2nd generation from Turkey, who have their center of life in the FRG . A number of her later articles on identity politics and homosexuality were published in specialist journals and books. She is also a speaker on these topics and is mentioned in the media. She is also co-author of the volume Lebenswelten von Migrantinnen and Migranten in Berlin (2001), which appeared in the series Documents Lesbian-Gay Emancipation and was published by the Berlin Senate Administration .

After completing his studies, İpekçioğlu trained in the field of event management and now hosts a. a. the "post-migrant" artist network Kanakwood (together with Gió Di Sera , Jale Arıkan , Nermin Uçar and Shermin Langhoff ), which is also created by artists such as Fatih Akın , Eleni Ampelatiotov , Züli Aladag , Gianluca Vallero , Thomas Arslan , Neco Çelik , Daniel Acht , Ali Eckert , Emily Atef or Ayse Polat is used.

The politically and socially committed academic is one of the founding members of the working group Migrants of Different Sexual Orientations (Amuso) and the "Gays & Lesbians from Turkey eV" (GLADT). She is also active in the activist group Kanak Attak , based on Feridun Zaimoğlu's book Kanak Sprak - 24 discordant tones from the fringes of society , which wants to open up a migrant perspective “beyond identity politics”.

DJ and musician

DJ Ipek is one of the regular DJs in the Kreuzberg scene club SO36

Since the early 1990s, İpekçioğlu has been a well-known disc jockey as a DJ or DJane Ipek in the Berlin club scene .

She is resident DJ with DJ mikki_p when the monthly Kreuzberg HomOriental Night Gayhane takes place in SO36 , which is organized and hosted by Fatma Souad (Hakan Tandoğan). This "homOrientalische Gayhane" night is one of the most important cultural events for the gay and lesbian scene in Berlin. She is also resident DJ at the Berlin club Deewane, the Hamburg Gay-Orient-Kitchen and in the Orient in Stockholm.

In Germany, İpek İpekçioğlu also played at major events such as the Berlinale or the Carnival of Cultures and has also made a name for himself through numerous appearances abroad in clubs and festivals (including New York City , Amsterdam , Mali , Salvador da Bahia , Istanbul , Glasgow and Beijing ) made a name internationally.

Their style-forming mixture of techno and belly dance rhythms, of oriental, Turkish, Kurdish, but also other, for example Greek, Indian or Caribbean musical elements has been referred to as "Berlin Ethno-House". In this context, the music critic Daniel Bax called her a "master of ceremonies of transcultural understanding between nations". In addition to this, DJ Ipek emphasizes with regard to her special mix of styles that she is not afraid to break musical and political taboos. On stage they accompanied various artists such as Mercan Dede , Baba Zula , dZihan & Kamien and Nithin Sawney .

In 2006 the Berliner released the album Beyond Istanbul , which received very positive reviews at home and abroad. The Süddeutsche Zeitung called her a musical and political “visionary” whose “eclectic voyage of discovery […] leads directly to a country of blatant social upheaval, far beyond the clichés and well-known pop exports such as singer Tarkan.” The Hamburger Abendblatt spoke of “musical educational work at its best.” The “cross section free of blinkers and ideology” ( Rolling Stone ) was chosen as album of the month for the show “Weltempfänger” on Bavarian radio .

Ipeks Compilation Import Export a la Turka (2007) dealt with "the German-Turkish music from the 1990s to the Present": Aziza A. , Channels Free rocket , Fresh Familee , Volkanikman, Hülya , Metin Candan , Beser Sahin , Stoneheads , Aleksey feat. Oezkan, Derya, Muri & Pegah Ferydoni , Nure & Nubun , Muhabbet , Bremen Immigrant Orchester , Sema Mutlu , Grup Ünlü , Sultan Tunc , Spark and MESS Berlin .

In recent years, DJ Ipek has also composed a small number of jingles and film scores .

further activities

In the feature film Berlin Beshert (2002) by November Wanderin took Ipek Ipekcioglu joined the amateur theater play since childhood, a role as "Hava, the Dream Girl". The half-hour work was premiered on November 12, 2002 at the Jewish Culture Days in Berlin.

İpekçioğlu also published fictional texts. For example, the text Ayşe is in love with Anja (1992), published by the Berlin lesbian counseling service, appeared in German and Turkish . In addition, İpekçioğlu was one of the prominent German Turks who contributed to the book What do you live? Young, German, Turkish - written stories from Almanya (2005).

Awards

In Sweden she was voted Europe's hippest DJ by the gay magazine QX. Another international award was İpekçioğlu's victory at the World Beat DJ Competition 2005 in London. Her CD Beyond Istanbul got a place on the best list of the German Record Critics' Award .

Radio broadcasts

DJ Ipek can be heard on Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. alternating 2-4 weeks with her program Eklektik BerlinIstan on Radio multicult2.0 .

Discography

Albums

Jingles

  • Şimdi Now, 2004
  • Dolmush X-Press Festival

Film music

  • Cat ball by Veronika Minder
  • The Best of the Wurst by Grace Lee. Berlinale Talent Campus, 2003

Publications

Fiction

  • Ayşe is in love with Anja / Ayşe bir kıza aşık… , ed. from Lesbenberatung eV, Berlin 1992.
  • Turkish Coming-out , in: Ayşegül Acevit / Birand Bingül (Ed.): What do you live? Young, German, Turkish - stories from Almanya . Knaur, Munich 2005, pp. 103 ff. ISBN 978-3-426-77797-8 .

Technical contributions

  • From the other bank. Lesbian and gay migrant youth , in: Iman Attia, Helga Marburger (Hrsg.): Everyday life and worlds of migrant youth. Interdisciplinary studies on the relationship between migration, ethnicity and social multiculturalism . IKO publishing house. Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 173 ff. ISBN 978-3-88939-520-7 .
  • Living worlds of migrants in Berlin , ed. from the same-sex lifestyles department, Senate Department for School, Youth and Sport, Berlin 2001 (documents lesbian-gay emancipation, vol. 19; collaboration).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeannette Goddar: "Proud to be a Kanak" Der Tagesspiegel, June 24, 1999
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Trikont: Press review on Beyond Istanbul ( Memento from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 20, 2006
  5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt , September 7, 2006
  6. ^ Rolling Stone , August 2006
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of October 3, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.multicult20.de

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personal data
SURNAME İpekçioğlu, İpek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DJ Ipek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue, she-DJ and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich