Aysun Bademsoy

Aysun Bademsoy (born March 14, 1960 in Mersin , Turkey ) is a German-Turkish film director and screenwriter . She is the sister of well-known actor Tayfun Bademsoy .

Life

Aysun Bademsoy came to Berlin with Tayfun and her parents in 1969 . She first came into contact with German film in 1979, when she and Herbert Grönemeyer portrayed a problematic German-Turkish love affair among strangers at home . After graduating from high school, she studied journalism and theater studies. During her studies she took on minor roles in feature films. She has been making documentaries since 1989. Her first independent film, Mädchen am Ball (1995), portrayed young women with a Turkish migration background who played in a women's soccer team in Berlin and whose careers she followed two years later in After the Game (1997). The latter film, German Police: Many Cultures - One Troop (1999) and At the Edge of Cities (2006) were both shown in the Young Film Forum as part of the Berlinale .

In 2008, Bademsoy took on German-Turkish women again in the documentary I am going in now , whom she had previously portrayed in Girls on the Ball and After the Game . Your television documentary Ehre from 2011 shows the thoughts of three men living in Germany, a German-Turkish, a German-Palestinian and a German without a hyphen on the subject of honor.

Web links

• "Hello? Where do you live? ” - Interview with Dietmar Kammerer in the daily newspaper , November 20, 2008, p. 15
• Aysun Bademsoy in the Internet Movie Database (English)