Fakir Baykurt

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Wall poem by Baykurt in Leiden

Fakir Baykurt (born June 15, 1929 in Akçaköy, Turkey , † October 11, 1999 in Essen ) was a Turkish teacher and writer .

Life

He attended a reform-pedagogical village institute , from which he graduated in 1948. His experiences with this institution, which tried to introduce progressive pedagogical approaches in the previously neglected province, had a lasting impact on him. He decided to become a teacher himself and studied in Ankara until 1955 . He then went to the US Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington (Indiana) for a year .

After studying to be a teacher , he worked at schools in Sivas , Hafik and Şavşat . In 1961 he was elected chairman of the TÖDMF teachers' association, and from 1965 he headed the newly founded TÖS union. In 1971 he was arrested for his engagement but acquitted by a military court. He became editor at the publishing house of Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (University of the Middle East) in Ankara. In 1978 he was a brief advisor at the Turkish Ministry of Culture. In 1979 he moved to Duisburg , where he worked as a teacher and writer. On October 11, 1999, Fakir Baykurt died of cancer in Essen .

Act

In 1946, while he was still in the village, Baykurt began to write. His main works were short stories and novels. Alongside Yaşar Kemal, he is considered to be the main representative of the socially critical villagers trend - village life is the focus of his realistic and folkloric stories. Since he lived in Germany , he mainly dealt with the everyday life of Turkish migrant workers.

Awards

During his lifetime

Posthumously

Since 2014, the city of Duisburg has been awarding the Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize every two years for outstanding cultural achievements in the field of intercultural dialogue to Duisburg cultural workers of all nations who have made a contribution to the positive development of cooperation between nations.

Works (selection)

Fiction

  • Half bread. Roman ("Yarım Ekmek"). Dialog Edition, Duisburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812594-3-8 .
  • The epic by Kara Ahmet. Roman ("Kara Ahmet Destanı"). Ararat-Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-921889-07-3 .
  • The Peace Cake (“Barış Çöreği”). Ortadoğu-Verlag, Oberhausen 1994, ISBN 3-921889-55-3 (German-Turkish)
  • The years with my mother. Memories (“Anamla Yıllar”). Verlag Anadolu, Hückelhoven 1997, ISBN 3-86121-063-0 .
  • Mother Irazca and her children. Roman ("Irazca'nın Dirliği"). Ararat-Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-921889-06-5 .
  • Night shift and other stories from Germany ("Gece Vardiyası"). Unions-Verlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-293-00062-2 .
  • The vengeance of the snakes. Roman ("Yılanların Öcü"). Ararat-Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-921889-05-7 .
  • Turkish gardens in the Pott. Stories ("Ruhr Havzası'nda Türk Bahçeleri"). Verlag Anadolu, Hückelhoven 1997, ISBN 3-861210-64-9 .

Non-fiction

  • Village institutes in Turkey ("Türkiye'de Köy Enstitüleri"). Ortadoğlu-Verlag, Oberhausen 1994, ISBN 3-861210-67-3 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.duisburg.de/guiapplications/newsdesk/publications/Stadt_Duisburg/102010100000506017.php
personal data
SURNAME Baykurt, fakir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Akçaköy
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1999
Place of death eat