Emine Sevgi Ozdamar

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Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born August 10, 1946 in Malatya / Turkey ) is a German-Turkish writer, actress and theater director.

Life

At the age of three months, Emine Sevgi Özdamar came to Istanbul and grew up there and in Bursa . At the age of 12 she was on stage for the first time in the State Theater in Bursa (in Molière's " Bürger als Edelmann " ). When she was 18, she came to Germany for the first time in 1965, without any knowledge of German, and worked for half a year in an electrical factory in West Berlin .

From 1967 to 1970 she attended the drama school in İstanbul and had her first professional theater roles in Turkey until 1976. a. she played Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss ' play "Marat / de Sade" and widow Begbick in "Mann ist Mann" by Bertolt Brecht . With the military coup of 1971 , she lost her future prospects in Turkey as a member of the Turkish Labor Party . Inspired by Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht - u. a. from the lyrics of a record she bought during her first stay in West Berlin - she went to East Berlin in 1976 to work as an assistant director at the Volksbühne . There she worked with Benno Besson and Matthias Langhoff . She later processed this time into literature in her novel Strange Stars Staring at Earth .

In 1978 she moved to Paris and Avignon to work with Benno Besson's Brecht production “ The Caucasian Chalk Circle ”. Her figurines , specially built for the staging , are on display today at La Maison Jean Vilar in Avignon. She took up studies at the Paris University VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis , which she graduated with the diploma "Maîtrise de Théâtre".

From 1979 to 1984 she had a permanent engagement as an actress and assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under the direction of Claus Peymann . On his behalf, she wrote her first play "Karagöz in Alamania" ( Schwarzauge in Deutschland ) in 1982 , which premiered in 1986 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt under her direction. In 1982 she appeared as Andromache at the Frankfurt Opera in Hector Berlioz 's opera "The Trojans", directed by Ruth Berghaus . In 1986 she played Maë Garga in Brecht's "In the Thicket of Cities" ( Freie Volksbühne Berlin ) under the direction of Karl Kneidl . In the same year, Özdamar was part of the premiere ensemble of the "Bavarian Requiem" Der Weihnachtstod (1986) by Franz Xaver Kroetz at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where she played a Turkish couple with Erdal Merdan . In 1993, Özdamar appeared as Anfissa in Anton Chekhov's "Drei Schwestern", directed by Matthias Langhoff, at the Théâtre de la Ville in a co-production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne .

Özdamar appeared as an actress in films, including 1992 in the as Best Feature Film was awarded the German Film Prize " Happy Birthday, Turk! ", The film adaptation of the detective novel of the same name Jakob Arjouni by Doris Dörrie , and 1988 (in "Yasemin" directed by Hark Bohm ). She also appeared in Matti Geschonneck's "Reise in die Nacht" (1998), as well as in the comedies Süpersek (2004) and in Evet, ich will! (2008).

She has been working as a freelance writer and actress since 1986. She lives in Berlin today .

Literary work

In addition to her work as an actress, Özdamar also wrote plays, novels and short stories from the start. She is one of the most famous German-Turkish authors. It occupies an intermediate position between the guest worker literature of the 1980s and the serenity of the third generation. The writer Feridun Zaimoğlu , whose new "Kanak-Sprak" creations are influenced by Özdamar's style, speaks of her only in the highest tones. In May 2006, however, the German feature pages discussed whether Zaimoglu's novel “Leyla” was based on motifs from Özdamar's “Caravanserai”. Özdamar avoided the plagiarism allegation, "also out of fear of a legal dispute". Volker Weidermann commented on the case, which is all the more astonishing because both “Caravanserai” and “Leyla” were published by the same publisher ( Kiepenheuer and Witsch ) in the FAZ as follows: “The evidence is numerous. Each individual evidence can be for itself you take it for coincidence, all the evidence taken together is very noticeable. " The literature professor Norbert Mecklenburg stated dryly with regard to the dispute: “If the publisher had wanted to do something in favor of Özdamar, it would certainly have better commissioned a literary science rather than a legal one. But every publisher who sells fiction has two souls in his chest: a literary soul and a money soul. "

Özdamar has received numerous awards for her work. In May 2007 Özdamar was accepted into the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt, which now has 175 members . In the same year her book Life is a Caravanserai was published, has two doors, I came in from one and I went out of the other. (Life is a Caravanserai) included in the prestigious list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die . In 2010, Özdamar's play Perikizi was performed by the Moers Castle Theater as part of the events of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr Area ( RUHR.2010 ) . Thomas Kerstan included Özdamar's collection of stories Mutterzunge 2018 in his canon for the 21st century , a selection of works that he believes "everyone should know".

Works

  • Karagöz in Alamania . (Play, 1982)
  • Mother tongue. (Short stories, 1990, ISBN 3-88022-106-5 )
  • Keloğlan in Alamania, the reconciliation of the pig and the lamb. (Play, 1991)
  • Life is a caravanserai , has two doors, I came in from one and I went out from the other. (Roman, 1992, ISBN 3-462-02319-5 )
  • The bridge from the Golden Horn . (Roman, 1998, ISBN 3-7632-4802-1 )
  • The courtyard in the mirror . (Short stories, 2001, ISBN 3-462-03001-9 )
  • Strange stars stare at the earth. Wedding - Pankow 1976/77. (Novel, 2003, ISBN 3-462-03212-7 )
  • Araf'takiler - Hayatları Roman olanlardan. by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Corakli Sahbender, (in Turkish), published in “ADIM”, 2004, Erzurum-Turkey
  • Halfway through the sun: the Istanbul Berlin Trilogy . (contains "Life is a Caravanserai", "Bridge from the Golden Horn" & "Strange Stars Starry To Earth", Kiepenheuer & Witsch , 2006, ISBN 3-462-03752-8 )
  • Kendi Kendinim Terzisi Bir Kambur, Ece Ayhan 'lı anılar, 1974 Zürih günlüğü, Ece Ayhan'ın makrupları , Istanbul 2007 ISBN 978-975-08-1305-4
  • Perikizi. A dream play , in: RUHR.2010, Uwe B. Carstensen, Stefanie von Lieven (eds.): Theater Theater. Odyssey Europe. Current pieces 20/10 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010 ISBN 978-3-596-18540-5

Awards

See also

Web links

Wikiquote: Emine Sevgi Özdamar  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Steinborn: My German words have no childhood. Emine Sevgi Özdamar's stories "The court in the mirror". In: Literaturkritik.de 11/2001. November 2001, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Irmgard Ackermann and Nazli Hodaie: Emine Sevgi Özdamar - essay. In: Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature. June 1, 2011, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Kroetz : Pieces I-II , Suhrkamp 1989, p. 446
  4. ↑ Volker Hage (Ed.) In collaboration with Adolf Fink: Deutsche Literatur 1986. Jahresrückblick , Reclam 1987, p. 132
  5. ↑ Christoph Schröder: "Tannöd" author: acquittal for Schenkel. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 15, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Volker Weidermann: Copied? Dispute over the novel “Leyla”: Özdamar versus Zaimoglu. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 1, 2006, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  7. ^ Norbert Mecklenburg: A Turkish literary scandal in Germany ?. Critical commentary on the dispute over Feridun Zaimoglu's "Leyla" and Emine Sevgi Özdamar's "Life is a caravanserai". In: Literaturkritik.de 7/2006. July 2006, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  8. ↑ 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The 2009 List. In: literary-exploration.com. Retrieved May 20, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Th. Kerstan: What our children need to know. A canon for the 21st century. Hamburg 2018. p. 11, 139f.
  10. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ozdamar, Emine Sevgi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya