Habib Bektaş

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Habib Bektaş (born March 1, 1951 in Salihli , Turkey ) is a Turkish-born writer, journalist and literary translator who publishes mainly in Germany and Turkey.

Live and act

Private

Habib Bektaş moved to Germany in 1972. After various activities (factories, catering), he and his wife Müjgan opened a restaurant in Erlangen, which they operated until 1986. From 1986 to 1991 he worked as a drug advisor and street worker at the drug advice center Mudra-Drogenhilfe Nürnberg eV. From 1989 to October 2011 he and his wife ran the Theatercafé Erlangen they founded . Habib Bektaş lives with his wife in Erlangen and in Turkey . He has two grown children.

Literary work

Bektaş, who saw himself early on as a representative of contemporary German literature (see Piper-Taschenlexikon zur Bavarian Contemporary Literature, 1986), was already writing poems as a casual worker in Turkey, which were published in Turkish literary newspapers. Bektaş 'extensive work, which includes poems, stories and novels, appears in Turkey and, translated from Turkish, on the German-speaking book market as well as in Greece and Brazil. The author's first publications in Germany were the poetry and prose collection Siege des Lebens (1982) and the volume of poetry Without you, every city is a desert (1984). Later he also wrote longer stories, plays, novels and children's books. His novel Scent of Shadows was filmed in 1999 under the title September Storm (Eylül firtinasi) by the renowned director Atif Yilmaz . Furthermore, many of his stories were staged by Bayerischer Rundfunk and TRT (Turkish State Broadcasting Corporation). Habib Bektaş also works as a columnist for the Evrensel and Yeni Hayat newspapers.

2005 founded Bektaş along with Yüksel Pazarkaya the Sardis Publishing , a specialty publisher of contemporary Turkish and German-Turkish literature.

Awards

  • 1982: City of Erlangen's cultural sponsorship award
  • 1989: Milliyet Publishing House's novel prize for the novel Hamriyanım
  • 1997: Novel Prize from İnkılap Verlag for the novel Gölge Kokusu
  • 2000: Türk Dil Derneği Ömer Asim Aksoy Prize of the Institute for the Turkish Language for the novel Cennetin Arka Bahçesi

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • 1981 Siege of Life (poetry), Ararat Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-921889-58-8
  • 1983 Erlangen şiirleri (poetry), Derinlik Verlag, Istanbul
  • 1984 without you every city is a desert (poetry), Damnitz-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-88501-034-8
  • 1985 Reden die Sterne (children's poems for adults), Damnitz-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-88501-054-2
  • 1985 Adresinde yoktur (poetry), Dayanışma Verlag, Ankara,
  • 1989 The forgotten grow (poetry), art-direct Verlag Erlangen,
  • 1992 Sözü Yurt Edindim (poetry), Broy Verlag, Istanbul
  • 1996 like we children (children's poems for adults), Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlg., ISBN 3-87214-269-0
  • 1997 Timid my longing (poetry), Horlemann Verlag, Bonn, ISBN 3-89502-061-3
  • 2002 babel zum Gegenwart (poetry), Horleman Verlag, Bonn, ISBN 3-89502-158-X
  • 2006 Color of Light (poetry & watercolor), Sardes Verlag, Erlangen, ISBN 978-3-9810419-5-8
  • 2008 A poem, without dedication (lyric), Sardes Verlag, Erlangen, ISBN 978-3-9810419-7-2
  • 2009 The memory of the mirror (poetry), € Sardes Verlag, Erlangen, ISBN 978-3-941025-07-3
  • 2010 Ay Terazin Olsun (poetry), Yasak Meyve Verlag, İstanbul, ISBN 978-975-6198-82-7

prose

Children's books

Stage works

  • 2000, Something, Theater Erlangen
  • 2003, Sirin wants a Christmas tree, Theater Erlangen
  • 2010, Titil and Bibil, Diyarbakır State Theater, Turkey

See also

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bektaş, Habib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tektas, Habib (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Salihli , Turkey