Esmahan Aykol
Esmahan Aykol (* 1970 in Edirne ) is a Turkish journalist and author who is best known in Germany for her crime novels about the Istanbul bookseller Kati Hirschel.
Life
Esmahan Aykol studied law in her home country, worked as a journalist for the press and radio and later also tried her hand as a bar owner. She lives in Berlin and Istanbul.
The Kati Hirschel novels
Esmahan Aykol's fictional character Kati Hirschel is an early literary reference by the author to the history of German scientists who found exile in Turkey between 1933 and 1945 . In 2001, the year the first Kati Hirschel novel, Hotel Bosporus , was published, it was one of those rare glimpses of an aspect of German-Turkish relations that was still little known when the fourth Kati Hirschel novel was published in 2012 .
The fictional character Kati Hirschel is introduced as an Istanbul crime book dealer with German roots. These roots have clear references to the lawyer and legal sociologist Ernst Eduard Hirsch (1902–1985), who was dismissed from his position as judge in March 1933 because of his Jewish origins. Hirsch then taught in Istanbul and Ankara and returned to Germany in 1952 on the initiative of Ernst Reuter , where he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin . Esmahan Aykol addresses the fictional biography of her protagonist with clear references to the real biography of Hirsch when she lets Kati Hirschel say about her father:
“He and my mother had fled the war, or rather, National Socialism. My father was a Jew. Law professor. We lived in Istanbul until 1965 and then moved back to Germany. If it had been up to my father, we wouldn't have been back, but my mother really wanted it. My older brother and I were born in Istanbul. [..] My father became a Turkish citizen in the 1950s. He was one of the asylum seekers who took on Turkish citizenship and kept it until his death. You know that if the father or mother is a Turkish citizen, the children are automatically Turkish. "
Works
- Hotel Bosporus ( Kitapçı Dükkânı , 2001), 2001, ISBN 3-257-06371-7 , 3-257-23443-0, 978-3-257-23889-1.
- Baksheesh ( Kelepir Ev , 2003), 2004, ISBN 3-257-06443-8 , 978-3-257-23520-3.
- Divorce in Turkish ( Süpheli Bir Ölüm , 2007), 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06677-7 , 978-3-257-24032-0.
- Istanbul Tango ( Tango Istanbul , 2014), 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-30036-9 .
- Goodbye Istanbul ( Savrulanlar , 2006), Diogenes, Zurich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06569-5 .
Adaptations
- Hotel Bosphorus. Editing / Direction: Judith Lorentz , Speaker: Catrin Striebeck , Bettina Kurth , Robert Dölle , Hannes Hellmann , Martin Engler u. a., 53 min., SWR 2006.
- Baksheesh. Editing / direction: Judith Lorentz, speaker: Catrin Striebeck, Hanns Jörg Krumpholz , Timur Işık , Klaus Herm , Bianca Nele Rosetz , Martin Engler and others, 55 min., SWR 2006.
Honors, awards, prizes
- 2017: Wiesbaden Crime Scholarship , four weeks in March 2017.
- 2017: Jury member at the awarding of the German Television Crime Award , March 2017.
- 2017: Scholarship from the Franz Edelmaier Residence for Literature and Human Rights of the Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights, August and September 2017 in Merano.
Web links
- Literature by and about Esmahan Aykol in the catalog of the German National Library
- Esmahan Aykol on Krimi-Couch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hotel Bosporus , pp. 244-245, ISBN 3-257-06371-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aykol, Esmahan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edirne |