Dilek Zaptçıoğlu
Dilek Zaptçıoğlu (* 1960 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a Turkish-German journalist and writer . Her first novel The Moon Eats the Stars (1998) was awarded the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people in 1999.
Life
After studying history and politics in Istanbul and Göttingen , the captain's daughter is initially editor-in-chief of the magazine Bizim Almanca (English: Our German). Between 1988 and 1998 Zaptçıoğlu worked as a Germany correspondent for the Turkish daily newspapers Cumhuriyet and Yeni Yüzyıl and as a freelance journalist for various German-language newspapers such as Tagesspiegel , taz and Die Woche . Since 1999 she has been working from Istanbul as a freelance journalist and correspondent for German media, including WDR , Financial Times Deutschland and Spiegel Online . Her articles and essays appear in magazines such as Blätter für German and international politics , Geo , Emma and websites such as Qantara.de .
After her multi-award-winning first work Der Mond eatst Sterne auf from 1998, a youth novel set in Berlin, she tells the story of Islam in 2002 . This book publication receives a recommendation from the Catholic Bishops' Conference and will be translated into Spanish and Korean.
Zaptçıoğlu also works as a translator between Turkish and German. Her first literary translation was Hermann Ktest's Die Kinder von Guernica into Turkish (1982). Non-fiction books and biographies followed, u. a. by Olof Palme and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec . In 1996 she translated Jakob Arjouni's Kayankaya novels into Turkish and numerous non-fiction books on the visual arts a. a. In 2009 her Turkish translation of the social anthropological essay The Times of Terror by the Göttingen sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky was published by İletişim Verlag in Istanbul, supported by the Fischer Foundation. Her translation of the biography of the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Klaus Kreiser was co- financed by the Istanbul Goethe Institute (also İletişim, Istanbul 2010). This was followed by the translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel The Visitation into Turkish. Her volume of essays, Yeterince Otantik Değilsiniz Padişahım, was published in 2015. Modernlik, Dindarlık ve Özgürlük (The authentic Sultan. On modernity, religiosity and freedom) at İletişim publishing house in Istanbul. Her Turkish translation of the philosophical treatise Topology of Violence by Byung-Chul Han was published in 2016 .
Your Istanbul blog was selected by the University of Münster as one of the ten most influential websites of migrants in Germany.
In 2005, Brandes & Apsel published her thoughts on Turks and Germans in book form. In the same year, the Cross with Values follows , which Zaptçıoğlu wrote together with her husband Jürgen Gottschlich , who has been a Turkey correspondent for taz since 1998 .
Works (selection)
- The moon eats the stars . Stuttgart: Thienemann, 1998 ISBN 978-3-570-30307-8 .
- The history of Islam . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2002.
- Turks and Germans: Thinking about a friendship . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt / Main 2005.
- (Co-author: Jürgen Gottschlich) The cross with values . Edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2005.
- The city guide ISTANBUL . Merian, 2008.
- Yeterince Otantik Değilsiniz Padişahım. Modernlik, Dindarlık ve Özgürlük. İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul 2015
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Dilek Zaptçıoğlu in the catalog of the German National Library
- Teaching model for finding identity in Dilek Zaptcioglu's novel "The moon eats the stars" ( PDF )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zaptçıoğlu, Dilek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |