Esra Küçük

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Esra Küçük 2018
Esra Küçük 2018

Esra Küçük (* 1983 in Hamburg ) is a German-Turkish social scientist who has been managing director of the Allianz Kulturstiftung since summer 2018 . The Manager magazine she is one of the "leading young intellectuals" in Germany.

Career

Esra Küçük was born in 1983 to a Macedonian mother and a Turkish father who had come to Germany as part of labor migration or as their second generation, and grew up in Hamburg-Fischbek . After graduating from high school, she studied in Münster and at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Lille as well as political science at Stanford University . She obtained her master's degree in European Studies from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

After completing her studies, she worked for the German Society for Foreign Policy and completed a two-year management trainee program at the Mercator Foundation in Essen. In 2012 she was the personal assistant to the management at the Advisory Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration . She was also a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at Berlin's Humboldt University .

2010/2011 initiated Küçük the establishment of the national dialogue forum Young Islam Conference , bringing them to the book creates Germany off by Thilo Sarrazin responded. In addition to a majority society that increasingly talks about people of Muslim faith, she wanted to give religious and non-religious young people with and without a migration background an opportunity to exchange ideas and a voice on the subject of identity , Islam or racism .

Since 2016 she has been a member of the board of directors of Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater , where she set up and directed the Gorki Forum as a “place for public debates between culture, science and politics”. In 2017 she curated the debate format “Europa 21” for the Leipzig Book Fair .

She has been a member of the Pro Helvetia Board of Trustees since 2020 .

Since 2018 she has headed the Allianz Kulturstiftung as a managing member of the Board of Trustees; In June 2020 she also took on - provisionally - operational responsibility on the board of the Allianz Umweltstiftung .

The business magazine Capital named Küçük 2016 the “Young Elite 2016” in the annual selection “TOP 40 under 40” in the field of government, science and civil society in Germany.

"I would like to create a space in which conversation partners can interact and think live, so to speak, instead of just exchanging positions."

Publications (selection)

  • On the paradigm shift - a long struggle for an inevitable change. Or why do we find it so difficult to accept social changes? In: Micha Brumlik, Marina Chernivsky, Max Czollek, Hannah Peaceman, Anna Schapiro, Lea Wohl von Haselberg (eds.): Disintegration (=  Yalta. Positions on the Jewish Present . No. 02 ). Neofelis, Berlin 2017, p. 52-60 .
  • Why the supposedly strangers challenge ourselves . In: Alexander Carius, Harald Welzer, Andre Wilkens (ed.): The open society and its friends . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29771-9 .
  • Migrant Women in the Ethnic Economy: Locating Affective and Reproductive Work . In: IFADE (Ed.): Insider - Outsider: Images, ethnicized spaces and participation in the migration process . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-382-2 .

Web links

Commons : Esra Küçük  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvia Süess: Europe and Turkey: «You, dear Esra, don't quite belong to us after all». In: woz.ch. April 25, 2017. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Carina Kontio: Esra Küçük in the Mindshift podcast. In: app.handelsblatt.com. December 4, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Christoph Neßhöver: Allianz: Esra Küçük becomes the new head of the Allianz Cultural Foundation. In: manager-magazin.de. April 12, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ chr: Esra Küçük goes from Gorki to the Allianz Kulturstiftung. In: nachtkritik.de. April 12, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ »What does unity actually mean here?« Esra Kücük from the Young Islam Conference and the network activist Anne Wizorek on origin and future . In: Markus Decker (Ed.): What I always wanted to tell you: East-West talks . Ch. Links Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86284-314-5 , p. 24 : “My grandmother first fled Macedonia to Turkey and in 1968 she was one of the first guest workers in Germany. My mother, who went to school in Istanbul, made up her [...] two years later. My mother was born in 1954 and was 16 when she came here. My father also came to Hamburg when he was 16 [...]. [He] grew up in Greece, but originally comes from near Istanbul. "
  6. ↑ Jens Schneider: Esra Küçük. In: sueddeutsche.de. November 4, 2015, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c Associate team members - JUNITED. In: projekte.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration (ed.): Integration in the federal system: Federation, states and the role of municipalities Annual report 2012 with integration barometer . Berlin 2012, p. 196 .
  9. ↑ Esra Küçük: Learning from detours. In: Capital.de. December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Three minutes with Esra Kücük. In: archiv.ruhrtriennale.de. August 31, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Dr Stefan Lüddemann: Leipzig Book Fair: "Europe 21": Esra Küçük asks: What is still holding Europe together? March 10, 2017, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Board of Trustees. In: Pro Helvetia. Retrieved on February 24, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ team. In: Kulturstiftung.allianz.de. Allianz Kulturstiftung, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Change of leadership at Allianz Umweltstiftung. In: stiftungen.org. Federal Association of German Meetings, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Top 40 under 40 - State and society. In: Capital.de. November 21, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Küçük, Esra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg