Bekir Yıldız

Bekir Yıldız (* 1933 ; † 1998 ) was a Turkish- Kurdish writer who worked in the Turkish language. He began his career as an author after four years as a Turkish guest worker at Heidelberg , with a publication about Turks in Germany.

Life

Yıldız came to West Germany as a printer in 1962. In 1966 he processed his experiences into the book Türkler Almanyada ( Eng .: The Turks in Germany), which was published in Istanbul . The work meant a first negative refraction for the previously common image of Germany in Turkish literature, which was later further differentiated by the " guest worker literature " in Germany, which was also carried back to Turkey. In the course of this, a work by Yıldız appeared in German for the first time in 1974: a story from the book Alman Ekmegi (German: German bread) was published in the magazine Kürbiskern .

One of the main themes of Yıldız, who belonged to the revolutionary writers of Turkey, remained - even after the Kurd had to leave the country for a third country - the German society he perceived as decadent .

Awards

• 1971: Sait Faik Literature Prize

Fonts

Works published in Germany:

• Topkapi-Harran simple, narrative . Translated by Gisela Kraft . Berlin: Harran Verlag, 1983. 112 pages, ISBN 3-922578-06-3
• Southeast dungeon. 3 literary reports about Anatolia . Ed. And transl. by Gisela Kraft. Berlin [u. a.]: Aufbau Verlag, 1990. 170 pages, ISBN 3-351-01847-9
• "The Damascus". In: From Istanbul to Hakkari. A round trip in stories . Edited by Tevfik Turan, with an afterword by Erika Glassen . Zurich: Unionsverlag, Turkish Library series, 2005.
• "Three comrades", trans. by Carl Koß. In: Foreign home. A History of Immigration from Turkey . Edited by Aytac Eryilmaz and Mathilde Jamin . Essen, 1998, p. 128ff.

literature

• Mediha Göbenli. “'Migrant literature' in comparison: German-Turkish and Indo-English literature”. In: Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies 40.2, 2006, pp. 300-317. (Treats Yildiz, among others)
• Ingo Arend. “Through the ethnic glasses”, In: Friday , June 16, 2006, online . (mentions Yildiz)
• Elisabeth Siedel. “Between resignation and hope. Turkish authors in the Federal Republic ”. In: Die Welt des Islams 26.1 / 4, 1986, pp. 106–123. (mentions Yildiz)
• Akzente - Zeitschrift für Literatur , June 27, 1980. Special issue “Turkish Literature Today”, ed. by Petra Kappert. (Includes contributions by Bekir Yildiz and the translator of his works Gisela Kraft.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Bekir Yıldız in the catalog of the German National Library