İsmet Elçi
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
- Civis Media Prize 1989
- Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 1993
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about İsmet Elçi in the catalog of the German National Library
- İsmet Elçi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.soehnlin.de/elci.htm
- http://www.verlag-hans-schiler.de/index.php?title=Ismet+Elci+Der+rosarote+Fahrstuhl&art_no=B0188
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SURNAME | Elçi, İsmet |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Turkish director and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Muş Province , Eastern Anatolia |