Fatma Aydemir

Fatma Aydemir (2011?)

Fatma Bahar Aydemir (* 1986 in Karlsruhe ) is a German journalist and writer. She lives in Berlin.

Life

Fatma Aydemir grew up in a suburb of Karlsruhe. Her grandparents came to Germany as guest workers when her parents were teenagers. She studied German and American studies in Frankfurt am Main . Aydemir has lived in Berlin since 2012 and works as an editor for the daily newspaper taz , where she deals with the topics of pop culture, literature and Turkey. She co-initiated the bilingual web portal taz.gazete as a reaction to state repression against freedom of the press in Turkey . As a freelance writer, she also writes for Spex and Missy Magazine .

Her debut novel Elbogen , published in 2017 , which is about an escalation of violence in a subway station, divided criticism. Reviewer Philipp Bovermann appreciates Aydemir's clear language in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and sees the book as two kicks in the stomach: “One for the misogynous Turkish society. And one for the mendacity of the oh-so-liberal Germans. ” Andrea Diener from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the other hand, would have liked more differentiated observations of the German-Turkish protagonist Hazal:“ The author does not attach great importance to the fact that this Hazal is given to us in the course of the book becomes sympathetic, and so it slips away from the reader ”.

For Elbogen , Aydemir received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize of the Harbor Front Literature Festival endowed with 10,000 euros in 2017 for the best debut novel of the year and, as a German winner, the Franz Hessel Prize for 2017. In 2018 she received an annual scholarship for writers from the Ministry for science and art of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In 2019 she was a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. For her novel project Dschinns she was awarded a Robert Gernhardt Prize in 2020 .

plant

• Elbow. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25441-1
• with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (Ed.): Your home is our nightmare . Ullstein, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-961010-36-3

Web links

Commons : Fatma Aydemir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography and reviews of works by Fatma Aydemir at perlentaucher.de
• One time without a filter, please . Review of Elbogen, Carsten Schmidt, Kulturmagazin Feuilletonscout, April 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Lenz: Novel "Elbow": Anger that has not been seen in literature for a long time . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed April 2, 2017]).
2. ↑ taz. the daily newspaper: Article by Fatma Aydemir - taz.de. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Debut novel about a young Turkish woman from Berlin: Potatoes only appear marginally - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Fatma Aydemir - Authors - Hanser Literaturverlage. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Philipp Bovermann: This anger is hers . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 2, 2017]).
6. ↑ Andrea Diener: Novel "Elbow": Your rampant hatred . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 26, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 2, 2017]).
7. ↑ Kühne Prize to Fatma Aydemir , boersenblatt.net, September 20, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017.
8. ↑ Culture Ministers Grütters and Nyssen award the Franz Hessel Prize to Fatma Aydemir and Michel Jullien on June 1, 2018 in Paris  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , stiftung-genshagen.de, accessed on June 1, 2018 (pdf)
9. ^ Villa Aurora: Scholarship holders 2019
10. ↑ Robert Gernhardt Prize 2020 for three novel projects , Wissenschaft.hessen.de, published and accessed on July 3, 2020.