Dilek Güngör
Dilek Güngör (* 1972 in Schwabisch Gmund ) is a German journalist , columnist and book author .
Life
Güngör, who completed a Catholic education, first completed a degree in translation for English and Spanish in Germersheim with a diploma. After completing a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Mainz , Güngör began working as a journalist for the Berliner Zeitung in 1998 , for which she initially worked until 2003. To this day, she continues to write glosses about German- Turkish life in Germany, which are extremely popular with readers , and which are often based on the experiences of her own family for the Berliner Zeitung .
In 2003/2004 Güngör completed a master's degree in Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Warwick in England .
Güngörs collected glosses from the Berliner Zeitung appeared in book form for the first time in 2004 under the title Unter uns . In addition to her journalistic work, the author is known for numerous readings.
In 2007 Güngör published her first novel The Secret of My Turkish Grandmother at Piper . In the same year, further glosses by the author, which have since appeared in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, appeared in the volume Ganz Schön deutsch .
In 2008 Güngör wrote the libretto for the Singspiel Turkish for Lovers, which was performed in the Neukölln Opera in 2008/2009 (music: Sinem Altan ).
Since October 2009 Güngör has had a regular column in the Monday editions of the Berliner Zeitung .
Her second novel Ich bin Özlem was published in February 2019 , about which Arno Widmann wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “A great litter. Especially now right in the middle of the proliferating identity speeches. ”The essayist Mithu Sanyal said the novel was“ crystal clear observed, self-critical and sovereign ”, and in April 2019 on WDR 5 it was named“ Book of the Week ”.
Awards
- 2019 one-year scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
bibliography
- I am Özlem. Novel. Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-373-6
- Pretty German. My Turkish family and me. Columns. Piper Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24896-9
- My Turkish grandmother's secret. Novel. Piper Verlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04971-9
- Between us. Columns. Edition Ebersbach , Berlin 2004 (paperback edition under the title Unter uns. My Turkish family and I , btb , Munich 2006)
See also
Web links
- Official website of Dilek Güngör
- Literature by and about Dilek Güngör in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sascha Wilczek: Interview with Dilek Güngör about her glosses on www.foreigner.de
- Goethe-Institut Tokyo: Writing workshop with Dilek Güngör in November 2005
- Goethe-Institut Ireland: Reading tip 2009: The secret of my Turkish grandmother
Individual evidence
- ↑ Next to you. March 1, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ "I am Özlem" by Dilek Güngör. March 15, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Güngör, Dilek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, columnist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |