İsmet Elçi

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İsmet Elçi (born March 2, 1964 in Altınova in the Turkish province of Mus ) is a German-Kurdish writer and director .

Life

İsmet Elçi comes from a Kurdish family. In 1979 he came to Germany with his father for political reasons. He worked in a textile factory and learned German at an evening school . He also played theater and small film roles.

In 1986 he made his first own short film and shortly afterwards made his feature film debut Kismet, Kismet , others followed. The film Sinan ohne Land (1989) for the Second German Television was awarded the Civis Media Prize. Elçi also works as a director of video clips and in advertising . In addition to his work for cinema and television , he published several volumes of narrative works on the situation of Turkish migrants in Germany. Some of them filmed myself (e.g. Cemile or the fairy tale of hope , 1991/1995). For his literary work he was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1993 .

Literary works

  • Sinan without land , Berlin 1988
  • Law of Silence , Berlin 1990
  • Cemile or The Fairy Tale of Hope , Berlin 1991
  • The wounded children of Zarathustra , Berlin 1997
  • The pink elevator , Berlin 2007

Directorial work

  • 1986: Kismet, Kismet
  • 1992: Dügün - the marriage
  • 1996: Cemile or The Fairy Tale of Hope

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Elçi, İsmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish director and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Muş Province , Eastern Anatolia