Barış Uygur
Barış Uygur (born 1978 in Eskişehir ) is a Turkish writer , journalist and screenwriter .
Life
Uygur grew up in Istanbul and went to high school in the Cağaloğlu district , where many book and magazine publishers have always been based. At the age of 16 he started working for various magazines. He first studied communication science (television, radio and cinema) with a degree in 2003 and a second degree from 2006 to 2012 in history at the liberal Bilgi private university in Istanbul. For a short time in between he was a newspaper editor as well as music producer and founder of an indie music label called "Peyote". In 2007 he became co-founder and co-editor of the popular weekly satire and caricature magazine “Uykusuz” ( Turkish : sleepless), the best-selling independent weekly newspaper in Turkey with around 70,000 copies sold. From 2008 to 2012 he wrote screenplays for Turkish television alongside his second degree.
His debut novel was published in 2012 and has also been available in German since 2014. Like the second humor detective novel, it revolves around the former police officer Süreyya Sami.
Barış Uygur lives and works in Istanbul.
Works
- Rendezvous at Ferikoy Cemetery , Roman. (Feriköy mezarlığı'nda randevu) from the Turkish by Monika Demirel, Binooki Verlag , Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-943562-30-9
- Escape from the Höllenhof , Roman. (Cehennem çiftliğinden kaçış) from Turkish by Monika Demirel, Binooki Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-943562-43-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Barış Uygur in the catalog of the German National Library
- "A criticism from Germany is worth gold for Erdogan" , Interview with Baris Uygur on the situation of satire and the media in Turkey, Heise News April 14, 2016
- Interview (spiegel.de April 16, 2016) on the occasion of the Böhmermann affair
supporting documents
- ↑ Spiegel online from April 16, 2016
- ↑ Author profile Barış Uygur Binooki Verlag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uygur, Barış |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer, journalist and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eskişehir |