Barbara Yurtdaş

Barbara Yurtdaş (born October 8, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German-born writer and teacher who lives in Turkey .

life and work

Barbara Yurtdaş writes novels, short stories, poems and books on relevant topics such as Istanbul. A travel companion (2004). She made her debut in 1985 with the story One Lunar Month .

The novels, German-Turkish family stories such as Where my husband is at home ... (1996) and Where I'm at home too (1994) are strongly autobiographical.

Barbara Yurtdaş has translated numerous books into German, for example novels by Duygu Asena and Mario Levi . In 2015 she received the Tarabya Translator Award for literary translations from Turkish.

Single track

Poetry

• Heart grid. Poems for women . Self-published, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0386-0 .
• In the streambed of pain. Poems . Self-published, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3366-2 .
• Quibble . Poems. Spielberg, Regensburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940609-78-6 .
• Surefire thing. From living with dying . Poems. Spielberg, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95452-694-9 .

prose

• For a lunar month. Narrative. Women's offensive, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88104-149-4 .
• Matricide in Ephesus. Novel. Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11259-5 .
• Where my husband is at home ... Diary of a move to Turkey . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-15137-5 .
• Wherever I am at home. A Turkish-German family story . Piper, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11638-8 .
• When women travel. Stories from Turkey . Piper, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-492-11914-X .

Non-fiction

• Instructions for use for Turkey . Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-04997-4 .
• Istanbul. A travel companion . New edition Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-458-34726-7 .
• Turkey. A travel companion . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-35049-1 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Theo Breuer and Traian Pop (eds.): Matrix 28 . Breathing alphabet for Friederike Mayröcker . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISSN 1861-8006.
• when i was fish yeah when i was fish Anthology with Augusta Laar , Alma Larsen and Katharina Ponnier. Allitera, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86906-685-1 .

Translations

• Duygu Asena : The woman has no name. a Turkish woman discovers the consequences of the small difference ( Kadının adı yok ). Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11485-7 .
• Duygu Asena: My love, your love. ( Aslında aşk da yok ). Novel. With Alı Yurtdaş. Piper, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11792-9 .
• Sema Kaygusuz : Wine and Gold ( Yere düşen dualar ). Novel . With Hüseyin Yurtdas. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41996-0 .
• Mario Levi : Istanbul was a fairy tale ( Istanbul bir masaldi ). Novel . With Hüseyin Yurtdas. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41997-7 .
• Mario Levi: Where were you when darkness fell ( Karanlik Çökerken Neredeydiniz ). Novel. With Hüseyin Yurtdas. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42226-7 .
• Nedim Gürsel: Allah's Daughters ( Allah'in Kizlari ). Novel. Suhrkamp Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42291-5 .
• Haydar Isik: Sultan Saladin ( Serkoy'dan Sultan Selahaddin Eyyubiye ) . Historical novel. Universitas, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-8004-1518-2 .
• Pelin Özer: Space Flower / Uzay Cicegi. Poems . Bilingual edition German / Turkish. With Hüseyin Yurtdas. Spielberg, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95452-664-2 .
• Nedim Gürse: The captain's son ( Yüzbasinin Oglu ) . Novel . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9853-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Yurtdaş in the catalog of the German National Library
• German-Turkish literature
• List of German-Turkish writers