Canan Topçu

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Canan Topçu (2017)

Canan Topçu (* 1965 in Bursa , Turkey ) is a German journalist and author of Turkish origin.

Live and act

Canan Topçu has lived in Germany since 1973. After graduating from high school in Hanover , she completed a master's degree in literature and history at the Leibniz University of Hanover . In 1995 she won the journalist award "Foreign - so what?", Which the Foreigners Commissioner of Lower Saxony had awarded. In 1996/97 she completed an internship at the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , after which she worked as an editor at the Frankfurter Rundschau from 1999 to 2012 .

Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences until 2016 she worked in the media department, since 2014 she has taught in the social sciences department and since the 2015/16 winter semester at the Hessian University for Police and Administration.

In 2007 Canan Topçu published the book “ EinBÜRGERung - Reading book about becoming German. Portraits, interviews, facts. “, Which received a lot of positive feedback from the public, in the feature pages and from literary criticism and promoted public discussion about the situation of migrants in Germany. She examines the feelings and experiences of “strangers” in Germany, reflecting on her own experiences with being “Turkish” and critically examining the naturalization procedure in Germany. She has contributed to several book publications on related topics such as: B. What do you live? (2005).

She has been working as a freelance journalist since 2012 - for radio, print and online media as well as publications by ministries, foundations and educational institutions. Topçu's texts have appeared in Die Zeit , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Spiegel Special Islam , among others . Her journalistic work focuses on migration and integration , with a particular focus on the situation of Muslim women and Turkish migrants in Germany.

Topçu also works as a moderator and speaker. She is also involved on a voluntary basis in various committees - among others in the Frankfurt support group of the Round Table of Intercultural Journalism and on the board of the Hessian Forum for Religion and Society. Topçu is a co-founder of the Neue Deutsche Medienmacher (NDM) and coordinator of the NDM-Rhein-Main-Netzwerk.

Positions

In October 2013 Topçu criticized immigrants who adapt the spelling of their name to the phonetics typical of the country . This step is subject to a wrong understanding of integration and is an ingratiation to the locals. Instead, she pleaded for help with pronouncing the original names correctly.

In an article in ZEIT in November 2013, Topçu replied to the Dortmund journalism professor Horst Pöttker for basic reasons not to mention the ethnic origin of criminals in reporting, as provided for in Directive 12.1 of the Press Code, as long as this information provides “no explanation for the crime”: “careless reporting” could “lead to the stigmatization of certain groups”.

Book publications

  • May Ayim , Canan Topçu (Ed.): … From within language . Boarding school Kulturwerk, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-910069-56-8 .
  • Canan Topçu: NATURALIZATION. Reading book about becoming German. Portraits, interviews, facts . 1st edition, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86099-726-0 .

Web links

Commons : Canan Topçu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stranger - so what? Media and intercultural everyday life. Contributions to the Intercultural Week 1995 in Lower Saxony ; PDF (accessed June 28, 2017)
  2. ↑ [1] (accessed on July 24, 2017)
  3. ↑ Part-time lecturer at the Police Department of the Hessian University of Police and Administration  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; (accessed on June 28, 2017)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / verwaltung.hessen.de  
  4. ↑ "The farewell to 'multicultural'?" ; Review by Jos Schnurer on the internet platform socialnet from June 4, 2007 (accessed on January 28, 2009).
  5. ↑ Ayşegül Acevit / Birand Bingül: What do you live? Young, German, Turkish - stories from Almanya . Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-77797-5 .
  6. ↑ "Article by Canan Topçu" ; Archive list from the authors' register of the time (accessed on January 28, 2009).
  7. ^ "Muslim women in Germany. The many worlds of Turkish migrant women ” ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Essay by Canan Topçu on the Internet portal Qantara.de from June 2, 2005 (accessed January 28, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.qantara.de
  8. ↑ “Round Table” initiative ; in: medium magazine for journalists. Issue 04 and 05/2013. (accessed on June 28, 2017)
  9. ^ Hessian Forum for Religion and Society - Board of Directors ; (accessed on June 28, 2017)
  10. ↑ Vita Canan Topçus and presentation of the program at the 36th Istanbul Book Fair in 2016 ; (PDF) (accessed June 28, 2017)
  11. ^ NDM - Network Frankfurt. Contact person and dates ; (accessed on June 28, 2017)
  12. ↑ Too much integration! Why a Turkish name has to remain a Turkish name, Topçu statement in Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 4, 2013
  13. ↑ “Better politically correct than politically wrong” , Die Zeit , Nov. 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Topçu, Canan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bursa ( Turkey )