The Özdags

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The Özdags is the title of a seven-part documentary film series about the everyday life of the Turkish-born Özdag family, which was broadcast on WDR television in January 2007 . The director was Ute Diehl , who also had the idea for the family documentary Die Fussbroichs . The cameraman was Klaus Grittner , who was also part of Die Fussbroichs. The series was nominated for the 2007 Grimme Prize .

A second season was created in 2008 about the vacation of the Özdags.

The 2007 documentary shows the everyday life of the family who runs a pastry shop on Keupstrasse in Cologne and is now the third generation to live in Germany. Participants are Hasan Özdag, who initially came to Germany alone in the 1970s, his wife Aliye Özdag, the daughters Selda, Zülya and Hülya, the sons Uzay, Nebil, Aydın and Servet as well as the son-in-law and the grandchildren.

In the individual episodes, the middle generation in particular makes it clear what it means to grow up between two cultures. So it happens E.g. on the differences of opinion between father Hasan, who considers cleaning to be a pure “women's job”, and his daughter Selda, who sees herself as an equal woman. On another occasion, Uzay disgustedly refuses his sister's (not very serious) proposal to marry a young woman from Turkey and asks what he should do with a woman who doesn't even speak German. And Selda complains that, unlike herself, her children no longer learn proper German in kindergarten because the proportion of foreigners is too high.

How far integration can go becomes particularly clear in the episode “Cuddle time with Nebil Özdag”: Together with his brother Uzay, he delivers the confectionery's products. While driving together, Nebil listens to his numerous CDs of German pop music and sings along with all of the songs with absolute confidence. Uzay, who doesn't like German hits that much, takes it with humor at first, but gets increasingly annoyed. Nebil tries to convince him of the mood-enhancing effect and the great expressiveness of the hit lyrics. Finally, Uzay thinks that Nebil is “more German than the Germans”.

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