Afife Jale

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Afife Jale, ca.1923

Afife Jale (* 1902 in Istanbul ; † July 24, 1941 ibid) was a Turkish theater actress. She was Turkey's first Muslim actress.

Life

Jale was born in 1902 to Hidayet Bey and Methiye Hanım. She had a brother and a sister. Jale attended the vocational school for girls in Istanbul and then wanted to become an actress. However, it was traditionally forbidden for Muslim women to act in the Ottoman Empire. Only non-Muslim women from the Greek, Armenian or Jewish minorities were allowed to perform. The father was also against a career in the theater because he believed that it was frivolous and against the rules of Islam. Jale then ran away from home and began an internship at the Darülbedayi Theater in 1918 . The state conservatory offered a course there for Muslim actresses who were only supposed to perform in front of a female audience.

Jale made her debut in 1920 as "Emel" in the play Yamalar by Hüseyin Suat at the Apollon Theater in Kadıköy . Jale had rehearsed, but was not supposed to perform. But the role became vacant when the Armenian actress Eliza Binemeciyan emigrated. Afife took over and chose the stage name "Jale". She kept it on for the rest of her life. Jale was the first Muslim actress in her country. Jale had to be hidden by her non-Muslim colleagues twice because there were police raids during the play. The theater management was warned several times that the theater would be closed if Muslim women appeared. The two directors were even arrested. Jale was repeatedly insulted and assaulted.

In 1921, the Ministry of the Interior issued a rescript prohibiting Muslim actresses from performing. Jale had to give up her job and in the following years only played under different names occasionally. Despite the engagements, Jale had major financial problems and often suffered from severe headaches. A doctor then recommended morphine therapy, which led to addiction.

With the end of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk also lifted the restrictions on actresses in 1923. Jale had regular engagements again and appeared with the New Theater Group ("Yeni Tiyatro Topluluğu") on stage in Kadıköy. She also toured with the Burhanettin Tepsi Company ("Burhanettin Tepsi Kumpanyası") and the National Stage ("Milli Sahne") by Fikret Şadi through Anatolia. But drug use affected her health and eventually resulted in her being forced to quit her job. Afife Jale became impoverished after the end of her theater career.

In 1928 she met the tanbur player Selahattin Pınar (1902–1960) at a classical concert. The couple married in 1929 and moved into an apartment in the Fatih district of Istanbul . But the marriage was not a lucky star. The relationship suffered from Jale's addiction to morphine and so the couple divorced in 1935. Selahattin Pınar composed some classical pieces in which he processed his relationship with his wife.

At one point, Jale was so bad that friends took her to a mental hospital in Bakırköy . She spent her final years there and died in 1941. Her grave site is unknown today.

Posthumous honors

In 1987 the journalist Nezihe Araz (1922-2009) wrote the play Afife Jale , which was also made into a film. Jale's life has been filmed twice: In 1987, Şahin Kaygun directed the film Afife Jale, and in 2008, Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran Kilit filmed it . Müjde Ar played the actress in both films .

In December 1998 the contemporary ballet Afife by Turgay Erdener was premiered by the Turkish State Ballet. The choreography was by Beyhan Murphy . In 2012 the piece was performed again in the Süreyya Opera House .

In 2000 the music album Afife with classical pieces was published by the soprano Selva Erdener . The music was played by the Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra .

In 2004 Can Dündar made the documentary Yüzyılın aşkları: Afife ve Selahattin , which illuminated the relationship between Jale and Pınar.

In the Ortaköy district of Istanbul , the "Afife Jale Kültür Merkezi" (Afife Jale cultural center) and the Afife Jale Sahnesi (Afife Jale stage) were named after her. In addition, the Çukurova Üniversitesi theater in Adana was named after her.

The Afife Theater Prize has been awarded annually since 1997 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Afife Jale . İstanbul Women's Museum. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Afife dans ediyor (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , December 12, 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
  4. ↑ Michael Wunderlich: Women in the Shadow of National Icons. Encounter with the Turkish documentary filmmaker Can Dündar in Nuremberg . Nürnberger Nachrichten, March 19, 2005
  5. ↑ Yazar Nezihe Araz öldü (Turkish) . In: Sabah , July 26, 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
  6. ^ Afife Jale (1987) . IMDb. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kilit (2008) . IMDb. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Müjde Ar, yine Afife Jale'nin izinde (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , October 12, 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
  9. ↑ a b The Living Composer Project: Trugay Erdener . Composers 21. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Afife" balesi 14 yıl aradan sonra yeniden sahnede (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet Kültür Sanat , November 6, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
  11. ↑ Özlem Ertan: Dansçılar, Afife Jale'yi anlatıyor (Turkish) . In: Taraf , November 29, 2012. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014. Retrieved on August 30, 2019. 
  12. ↑ Nereden Sevdim O Zalim Kadını ... (Turkish) . In: Milliyet , April 13, 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
  13. ↑ 'Islah Evi' Afife Jale Sahnesi'nde! ( Memento from June 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Turkish)
  14. ↑ Afife'yi hafife alma (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , April 27, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016. 
personal data
SURNAME Jale, Afife
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1941
Place of death Istanbul