Hatice Akyun

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Hatice Akyün (born June 15, 1969 in Akpınar , Turkey ) is a German freelance journalist and writer of Turkish origin .

Life

Hatice Akyün was born in 1969 in the Anatolian village Akpınar Köyü around 150 kilometers southeast of Ankara . In 1972 she moved with her parents and an older sister to Duisburg , where her father, a farmer, began to work as a miner . She learned German with Grimm's fairy tales and says of herself that her “heart is German and her soul is Turkish”.

After completing secondary school , Hatice Akyün trained as a judicial clerk at the district court in Duisburg. Then she made up her Abitur. After a year as an au pair in New York , she began studying business administration at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . At the same time, she worked as a freelance journalist for the local editorial team of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . After an internship , she moved to Berlin in 2000 and worked as a society reporter for the magazine Max .

She achieved a scoop with the scandalous interview she conducted with the then wife of the Swiss ambassador in Berlin, Shawne Fielding Borer . For a photo shoot, she sat on a horse in the embassy. The interview and the photos caused a scandal in Switzerland.

In 2007 Akyün gave birth to a daughter. After a short stay in Hamburg , she has been living in Berlin again since 2009. In recent years, especially since the debate sparked by Thilo Sarrazin , Akyün has also increasingly spoken out on matters of integration. In 2011 she even said in an interview that she was thinking of emigrating to Turkey: “I don't want my daughter to come home from school at some point and say: Mom, they say I'm stupid because I'm Turkish. I don't want her to feel that she doesn't belong to this country. "

In 2009 Hatice Akyün was awarded the Duisburg Prize for Tolerance and Moral Courage . The jury, made up of representatives from various areas of public life, praised the author's commitment to tolerance and the importance of language in integration.

On May 12, 2009, Hatice Akyün's blog on westropolis.de "The other day in the parallel world" was nominated by the Grimme Institute for the Grimme Online Award 2009 along with 25 other blogs .

As part of the VOX format Frauenzimmer (2009), Akyün was regularly seen on German television for three weeks.

She has been on the jury of the Franz Hessel Prize since 2010. It is a German-French literary prize that is awarded annually.

In 2011 Hatice Akyün was on the jury of the “First Steps” young film award in the “Documentation” category, which is awarded annually by the German Film Society. At the award ceremony on July 23, 2011, she gave the laudatory speech for the winner.

In 2011, she sponsored the Germany-Turkey Festival Orchestra of the Young Euro Classics .

On December 9, 2011, Hatice Akyün and social scientist Naika Foroutan received the Berlin Integration Prize. The jury awarded the prize for “their outstanding contributions to the current debate on immigration and integration and their commitment to democratic coexistence”. The integration prize is awarded annually by the Berlin State Advisory Board for Integration and Migration Issues. In 2011, Berliners were sought who, according to the text of the call for proposals, “have made a contribution to objectifying the debate on immigration through contributions and public initiatives and thus counteracted the stigmatization of immigrant groups.”

In autumn 2013 she received the special prize for tolerance and integration of the Berlin Capital Initiative and in 2017 the Helmut Sontag Prize .

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Hatice Akyün has been working as a freelance writer since 2003 and wrote or writes for Spiegel , Emma and Tagesspiegel , among others .

She wrote the cover story of Allah's Daughters without Rights and the reports A City Like a Promise about young Turkish academics in Istanbul and The memorandum about the Solingen arson attack .

In 2005 she published the biographical novel Once Hans with hot sauce , filmed in 2013 , which she also read for an audio book of the same name . In 2008 the sequel Ali appeared for dessert , in which she writes about her German-Turkish life as a mother. In 2013 she continued her autobiographical book series with her third book entitled Ich küss dich, Kismet , in which she reports on her attempt to emigrate to Turkey after the integration debate about Thilo Sarrazin, which was perceived as xenophobic, made her have doubts about her and had awakened her daughter's future in Germany.

From March 2011 to December 2014 Hatice Akyün wrote a weekly column in the Tagesspiegel , called “Meine Heimat” (My Home), which appeared on Fridays. In it she reported on life in a big city from the perspective of an immigrant. She dealt with the everyday life of her fellow human beings with and without a migration background in the metropolis of Berlin. The column also covered the subject of integration in the broadest sense. Akyün wrote with irony and humor about her life in German and Turkish culture, but the stories are not very different. She wrote e.g. B. about mothers whose problems are the same, even if the mothers come from different regions of the world. Integration is something that doesn't happen on paper, but also on the playground next door. The columns were often about life, love, mishaps and embarrassments, size and faint-heartedness, hope and disappointment and about remaining true to yourself. It all revolved around the wisdom of her Turkish father, who always said the right sentence on the topic at the end of her columns.

From May 2017 she was a columnist for Bild am Sonntag and since February 2019 she has been a columnist for Tagesspiegel again. Your column appears every two weeks on Saturday.

Positions

In the so-called integration debate, especially in the debate about Thilo Sarrazin's , Heinz Buschkowsky's , Ralph Giordano's or Necla Keleks ' theses, which are widely discussed in Germany , Hatice Akyün has repeatedly and publicly emphasized their often alleged responsibility for the racism that is evident in Germany and for right-wing extremism , for example those of the NSU terrorist group : “These right-wing extremists who carry out the violence feel like the majority's vicarious agents. The NSU also said that: 'Actions instead of words!'. And a Mr. Sarrazin or a Mr. Buschkowsky, also a Ms. Kelek or even Mr. Giordano, who keep feeding this, give these right-wing extremists, who are ready to use violence, always new food to say: 'Look, we're right!' "

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Film adaptations

Web links

Commons : Hatice Akyün  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Hatice Akyün: We're back to zero . In: Migazin , February 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Hatice Akyün receives award for integration, fighter against clichés , Der Tagesspiegel from November 14, 2014
  3. ↑ New columnists at Tagesspiegel: Hatice Akyün is returning to Tagesspiegel on February 16 - Robert Ide takes over Berlinale column from Harald Martenstein tagesspiegel.de, February 4, 2019
  4. ↑ See Akyüns Tagesspiegel column "Mein Berlin" from January 16, 2012: "Thilo Sarrazin: As stung by the oat"
  5. ↑ So literally in a discussion event in Munich on April 17, 2013, published under "Hans-Ulrich Jörges (STERN) and Hatice Akyün (Tagesspiegel) rushing against critics of Islam" ; Youtube, from minute 4:00
personal data
SURNAME Akyun, Hatice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance journalist and writer of Turkish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 15th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Akpınar , Turkey