Deniz Göktürk

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Deniz Göktürk (* 1963 in Istanbul ) is a German Germanist , essayist and literary translator of German and Turkish origin.

Life

Göktürk is the daughter of Aksit Göktürk, a Turkish professor of English literature, and Pia Angela Göktürk (née Lorenzi), a German sociologist and linguist whose parents came from Vienna (mother) and South Tyrol (father).

She graduated from the German School in Istanbul in 1980. She studied in Konstanz , Norwich and Berlin , where she received her doctorate in German literature in 1995. In the same year she left Germany ("the government has been slow to accept foreigners as Germans") to begin teaching at the University of Southampton in England. As early as the early 1990s, she had published numerous academic articles, essays and books on cultural history in Germany; She was particularly interested in the topics of migration and film history.

Göktürk also wrote the section on "Migration and Cinema" in the standard work published by Carmine Gino Chiellino on the subject of intercultural literature in Germany. A manual (2000).

As a literary translator from Turkish, she also translated a. A. Works by Aras Örens , a well-known German writer who works in his native Turkish, even after she went to Southampton for the first publications in German, e.g. B. Berlin Savignyplatz (1995) or The Secret of the Clock Tower (1996).

She also drew together with Zafer Şenocak as co-editor for a German-language anthology with Turkish stories Every word belongs to a heaven: Turkey literary (1991) responsible.

From 2000 onwards, Göktürk began to publish more and more in English. In 2002, she co- edited an extensive standard work on German cinema in England, The German Cinema Book .

Meanwhile, she is also a university professor of German at the University of California at Berkeley, offering courses on topics such as "Transnational Cinemas", "Comedy & Community", "World Cinema / Global Cities", "Nation & Representation".

Publications

Books

  • Heaven belongs to every word. Turkey literary. Babel-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928551-00-0 .
  • Artists, cowboys, engineers ... Cultural and media history studies on German America texts 1912–1920. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3235-X (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1995).
  • as editor with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter: The German Cinema Book. British Film Institute, London 2002, ISBN 0-85170-945-1 .

Literary translations

  • Aras Ören : Berlin Savignyplatz (= In search of the present. Vol. 5). Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88520-565-3 .
  • Aras Ören: The secret of the clock tower (= Berlin hand press. Druck 95, ZDB -ID 1217608-4 ). 10 original eight-colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berlin hand press, Berlin 1996.
  • Aras Ören: In search of the present time. 6: Unexpected visit. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-595-5 .
  • Aras Ören: In search of the present time. 4: Longing for Hollywood. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-751-6 .
  • Bilge Karasu: The Garden of Vanished Cats. Narrative cycle. Literaturca-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-935535-05-8 .

Articles, contributions, essays (selection)

  • Neckar-Western instead of Danube Waltz: The taste of freedom and adventure in early cinema. In: KINtop. Yearbook for the Study of Early Film. Vol. 2, 1993, ISSN  1024-1906 , pp. 117-142.
  • Black Book in White Fortress: Vanishing storytellers on postmodern paths in Turkish literature. In: Helmut Scheuer (ed.): Literature foreign cultures. Turkey (= German lessons. Vol. 45, no. 5). Friedrich, Velber 1993, ISBN 3-617-20053-2 , pp. 32-45.
  • How Modern Is It? Moving Images of America in Early German Cinema. In: David W. Ellwood, Rob Kroes (Eds.): Hollywood in Europe. Experiences of a cultural hegemony (= European Contributions to American Studies. Vol. 28). VU University Press, Amsterdam 1994, ISBN 90-5383-303-X , pp. 44-67.
  • Atlantis or On the Sink of Culture: ennobling early cinema in auteur films? In: Manfred Behn (Red.): Black dream and white slave. German-Danish film relations 1910–1930. Edition Text and Criticism, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88377-483-9 , pp. 73–86.
  • Mummy-door tongue twisters: Literature Turks from Germany's niches. In: Siren. Journal of Literature . Vol. 7, No. 12/13, 1994, pp. 77-92.
  • Metamorphoses of the own in the encounter with the foreign: the garden of disappeared cats by Bilge Karasu. In: Siren. Journal of Literature. Vol. 7, No. 12/13, 1994, pp. 159-168.
  • Perception, imagination and representation of the foreign in literature. In: Diyalog. Vol. 3, 1994, ZDB -ID 1382706-6 , pp. 41-47.
  • Meat & Movies: On Market Globalization and Import Regulation in Imperial Germany. In: Karel Dibbets, Bert Hogenkamp (Ed.): Film and the First World War. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-5356-064-5 , pp. 188-197.
  • Moving Images of America in Early German Cinema. In: Thomas Elsaesser , Michael Wedel (eds.): A Second Life. German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-5356-172-2 , pp. 93-100.
  • Violations of the Reinheitsgebot: Migrant cinema between snarling compulsory exercise and reciprocal border traffic. In: Ruth Mayer , Mark Terkessidis (Ed.): Globalkolorit. Multiculturalism and popular culture. Hannibal, St. Andrä-WIERT 1998, ISBN 3-85445-152-0 , pp. 99-114.
  • Features: female, Turkish, German, occupation: social worker, writer, actress. In: Hiltrud Gnüg, Renate Möhrmann (Hrsg.): Women - Literature - History. Writing women from the Middle Ages to the present. 2nd, completely revised and enlarged edition. JB Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1999, ISBN 3-476-01543-2 , pp. 516-532.
  • Turkish Women on German Streets. Closure and Exposure in Transnational Cinema. In: Myrto Konstantarakos (Ed.): Space in European Cinema. Intellect, Exeter et al. 2000, ISBN 0-585-26873-8 , pp. 64-76.
  • Migration and Cinema - Subnational Culture of Compassion or Transnational Role Playing? In: Carmine Chiellino (Ed.): Intercultural Literature in Germany. A manual. JB Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-476-01618-8 , pp. 329-347.
  • Turkish delight - German fright: Migrant identities in transnational cinemas. In: Karen Ross, Deniz Derman, Nevena Dakovic (eds.): Mediated Identities (= Media and Culture. Vol. 1). Istanbul Bilgi University Press, Istanbul 2001, ISBN 975-685-715-3 , pp. 131-149.
  • with Nezih Erdogan: Turkish Cinema. In: Oliver Leaman (Ed.): Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge, London et al. 2001, ISBN 0-415-18703-6 , pp. 533-573.
  • Strangers in Disguise: Role Play Beyond. Identity Politics in Anarchic Film Comedy. In: Ulla Haselstein , Berndt Ostendorf, Peter Schneck (eds.): Iconographies of Power. The Politics and Poetics of visual Representation (= American Studies. Vol. 108). Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1533-9 , pp. 187-212.

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personal data
SURNAME Göktürk, Deniz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, essayist and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul