İsmet Ergün

İsmet Ergün (* 1950 in Konya , Turkey ) is a Turkish-born painter and stage designer from Berlin who, in addition to working in the theater, sometimes also works as an art director or production designer for film. Her German short film Bende Sira , which she directed based on her own script, received an award at the 2007 Locarno International Film Festival .

Career

education

Ergün has lived in Berlin since 1972. After a guest study at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, she trained as an educator from 1976 to 1980, a profession in which she then worked for six years. After that, she will initially return to the University of the Arts as a guest student. In 1988 Ergün also worked as an actress in the Turkish film Police with Kemal Sunal, which played in the Berlin migrant theater scene . From 1988 to 1991 Ergün then received her training in painting and stage design under Andrej Woron , before she finally began regular studies in Faculty 11 at the Berlin Art School in 1991.

Artistic work

During this time (1990 to 1992) Ergün's first theater work fell: costumes and assistant director for performances at the Kreatur Theater in Berlin, costumes for a performance staged by Tom Fecht for World AIDS Day in front of Cologne Cathedral, Cologne Fragment and, not least, together with Andrej Woron Costumes and masks for Peter Zadek and Jérôme Savary's production of the Blue Angel at the Theater des Westens .

From 1994 to 1997 Ergün took on the equipment and costumes for various TV productions by Terre des Hommes . In 1996 there was also another extensive theatrical work, this time at the Bremen Theater for the Threepenny Opera .

From 1997 to 1999 Ergün worked mainly as art director for the Istanbul film director Sinan Çetin , who shot in Berlin in 1993 in Berlin , z. B. for the movie Propaganda (1999), but also equips the part of Lars Becker's film Kanak Attack (1999) shot in Turkey as well as a television series, Evdeki yabanci (1999), on Turkish television.

From 2000 onwards there were multiple collaborations with the German-Turkish filmmaker Neco Çelik , e. B. as production designer for his film Urban Guerillas (2001). In 2005 Ergün created the stage sets for two productions by theater director Yüksel Yolcu , including The Rose of Istanbul at the Neukölln Opera .

Bende Sira , İsmet Ergün's own short film, was awarded the Silver Leopard ( Eastman Kodak Award ) at the 2007 Locarno International Film Festival . The film received numerous other awards, including a. Awarded “Best German Short Film” at the Interfilm Berlin Festival 2007 and an honorable mention by the children's jury. The Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center certified the film with the rating “particularly valuable” and named it short film of the month in May 2007.

In addition, numerous exhibitions as a painter in Germany and Turkey since the late 1980s.

Stasi charge

In reports from Hürriyet and Der Spiegel on September 29, 2008, İsmet Ergün was working together with the Stasi , for which she is said to have handed over information on Turkish groups in West Berlin from 1982 under the code name “Isa” .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1989: Archaeological Museum of the Ministry of Culture of Turkey, Bodrum
• 1990: Gallery of the HKS, Kassel
• 1991: Querhaus Berlin “Selbstportraets”, Berlin
• 1993: State Gallery of Fine Arts, Istanbul
• 1993: Zon Ankara Gallery
• 1995: Gallery “KunstRaum”, Berlin
• 2000: Rooms of MPT GmbH and CARIS AG, Berlin
• 2002: Gallery Pi-Art, Istanbul
• 2003: Cey Güzel sanatlar Galerisi Istanbul
• 2004: Gallery Art-Home Istanbul

Web links

• İsmet Ergün in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article "Operation Pope" in Der Spiegel issue no. 40 2008.