Güner Yasemin Balcı

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Güner Y. Balcı at a reading, Sept. 2010

Güner Yasemin Balcı (born February 9, 1975 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , television editor and writer .

Life

Balcı's parents come from Turkey and belong to the Zaza ethnic group . You came to Germany as guest workers in the 1960s . Balcı was born in Berlin-Neukölln and grew up there. She was raised Alevi ; so she and her family did not wear a headscarf.

After graduating from high school, she first studied education and literature . She then worked temporarily in a model project for violence and crime prevention in the Rollbergviertel , a social hotspot in Neukölln, and in a girls' club for young people from Turkish and Arab families.

She works as a freelance journalist and television writer. She deals critically with the situation of migrants in German society in reports and reports for Die Zeit , Spiegel Online and Panorama, among others . Until the end of 2008 she worked as a television editor at ZDF for the television magazine Frontal21 .

In September 2008, S. Fischer Verlag published her debut novel Arabboy - Eine Jugend in Deutschland or the short life of Rashid A. , which Spiegel-Online labeled it as a “Milieu-Roman”. It was discussed in detail in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the taz , among others . Balci was interviewed about her book on Deutschlandfunk and at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Nicole Oder adapted the novel for the theater in the year of its publication. The play Arabboy was premiered on May 29, 2009 in the home port of Neukölln in Berlin . Directed by Nicole Oder.

An adaptation of Balcı's second book ArabQueen or the Taste of Freedom premiered in November 2010 under the title Arabqueen or the other life in the “Heimathafen Neukölln”. The novel on which the play is based describes the life of Mariam, who comes from a strictly Muslim family. Unlike her brothers, she is hardly given any freedom there, which leads to a double life between cultures.

In July 2010, the documentary Kampf im Klassenzimmer , which was shot by Balcı and Nicola Graef , was broadcast on ARD .

In 2012, together with Nicola Graef, Balcı was awarded the Civis TV Prize for the report Death of a Judge - In the footsteps of Kirsten Heisig on the WDR TV series People Up Close . In December 2015, her film Der Jungfrauenwahn was shown on arte , for which she received the Bavarian Television Award in 2016 because, in the opinion of the jury, she succeeded in advocating for the freedom and self-determination of women while at the same time protecting the privacy and To demand the prerequisites for a modern and contemporary society of different cultures ”.

Balcı is a founding member of the Muslim Forum Germany, which was founded in 2015 .

In autumn 2019, her documentary The Great Journey - Seyran Ateş and the Path to Reformed Islam was broadcast on ZDF . For this purpose, Balcı accompanied the first German Imamin Seyran Ateş for a year and a half in the construction of the liberal Ibn Rushd Goethe Mosque in Berlin.

In August 2020 Balci was commissioner for integration of Neukölln .

Books

  • Arabboy - A youth in Germany or the short life of Rashid A. 2nd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-004813-4 .
  • ArabQueen or the taste of freedom. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-004814-1 .
  • Aliyah's Escape: or The Dangerous Journey into a New Life . 1st edition, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-004816-5 .
  • The girl and the warrior of God. 1st edition, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002489-3 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniela Martens: Arabboy: The book of her life . In: Tagesspiegel . September 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ Anne Will: 50 years Ali in Almanya - still nothing German (from 0:37:00) on YouTube
  3. ↑ a b Information about Güner Yasemin Balcı in the online culture magazine Perlentaucher (accessed on February 3, 2009).
  4. ↑ "Youth violence. Kick in the face " ; Report Güner Balcı in the time of 6 April 2006 (accessed on 5 February 2009).
  5. ^ "School disaster in Berlin. School as a waiting hall for prison or Hartz IV ” ; Report by Güner Balcı on Spiegel Online from March 31, 2006 (accessed on February 3, 2009).
  6. ↑ NDR Panorama - Die Reporter .
  7. ^ "Milieu-Roman" 'Arabboy'. Berlin faces of misery ; Review by Anjana Shrivastava on Spiegel Online from September 27, 2008 (accessed February 3, 2009).
  8. ^ Review of Arabboy in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 28, 2008; at Perlentaucher (accessed February 3, 2009).
  9. ↑ "It can always get worse" - Review by Regina Mönch in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online from October 15, 2008 (accessed on February 3, 2009).
  10. ↑ "I am still one of us" ; Interview and review by Martin Reichert in the taz of November 22, 2008 (accessed on February 3, 2009).
  11. ↑ "A Lost Generation - What can be done about juvenile delinquency?" ; Radiofeuilleton in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 10, 2009 (accessed on February 5, 2009).
  12. ↑ Güner Yasemin Balcı on the “blue sofa” at the Frankfurt Book Fair , October 15, 2008: broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur and ZDF (accessed on February 5, 2009); Video Güner Yasemin Balcı on the blue sofa  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 5, 2009. (offline)
  13. ↑ Leading role in Neukölln . On May 29, 2009 on zeit.de
  14. ↑ Gerhard Heß: ARABQUEEN in Heimathafen Neukölln: A cult piece that gives hope ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spielart-berlin.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: spielart-berlin.de on February 28, 2011.
  15. ↑ ArabQueen: or The Taste of Freedom. Retrieved November 13, 2012 (see brief description of the book).
  16. ↑ CIVIS TV Prize 2012 for WDR documentation , WDR press release from May 10, 2012.
  17. ↑ Alexander Jürgs: “Sexual oppression is the main problem of Islam”. In: world. Axel Springer SE, December 4, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Press release of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs on the 28th Bavarian TV Prize , June 3, 2016
  19. ↑ Press release Konrad Adenauer Foundation “Muslim Forum Germany” on the initiative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation founded on April 22, 2015
  20. ↑ The Great Journey – Seyran Ateş and the Path to Reformed Islam. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Oliver Junge: ZDF documentary about Seyran Ateş: A new house for Allah's children . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 17, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Güner Balci becomes integration officer. In: Berliner Zeitung. August 1, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Read Peter ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lesepeter.de
  24. ↑ Civis TV Prize 2012 at WDR.de
personal data
SURNAME Balcı, Güner Yasemin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balci, Güner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, television editor and writer of Turkish origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin