Kanak Sprak - 24 discrepancies from the fringes of society

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Kanak Sprak - 24 discordant tones from the fringes of society is the title of a book with which its author Feridun Zaimoğlu was initially perceived as an "underground author " and "citizen fright of the German literary scene" before he won the jury's prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2003 for its German-language narrative skins was also recognized as a serious writer German. Kanak Sprak was first published in 1995 by Rotbuch-Verlag .

To the title

The title of the book today describes a corrupt German, with a simplified grammar, sound shifts and lots of Turkish and English sprinkles, but was by no means intended by the author. Zaimoğlu emphasizes that the "Kanaks" described in his book should not be confused with offspring from bourgeois circles who cultivated four-letter words and tried to offend the department store with beer can in hand.

The neologism comes from the name Kanaken . Germans gave immigrants and former guest workers , especially of Turkish and Arab descent, this disparagingly racist designation. By consciously using the term, young Turks confess their role as social outsiders: The abuse "Kanaken" and "Turkish German" are turned into positive in the sense of a Geusen word : a sign of belonging to a self-confident, aggressive "culture" between cultures ”.

Rolf-Bernhard Essig supported the thesis when he pointed out in 2007 that the artificial language developed by Zaimoğlu owed a lot to "Old Testament as well as Turkish-archaic cursing speeches".

content

“How is life as a Kanake in Germany?” Is the basic question of the semi-fictional interviews that the author wants to have “conducted” for his book. Ultimately, however, through the conversations condensed into 24 monologues with titles such as “You can never wipe the foreigner out of your face” and “Deutsches Land is ne salty Puffmutti”, Zaimoğlu delivers haunting portraits of people with a migration background “on the fringes of society”. In the “discrepancies” of these portrayed subjects, which the author calls them, there is caustic criticism of the situation in West Germany and of the way the state and its population deal with the immigrant society. The band also delivers a number of new things in terms of language. Akay, 29, from the flea market, the author puts in his mouth, for example:

“Of course I have something to offer, something nice, but not like the stupid rest, mold marok or red lebanese or whatever they sell, when it comes to riping off everyone has to see where they are, illegal is only on them length a little servant maloche, and when the gendarme is on your heels, you are pure zombie, because you are crooked and always stick to the wall before the trade gets going, and business blooms and branches to the great bang. They'll cash you, it's as sure as an amen, you can bet your balls that you'll kick yourself into the ole with your shit. So, for my part, I peeked at the show and said to myself: too hot, joker, you are not, so you do it nicely. The Männneken have gold, wherever the eye goes, and never really need to bang the old bill, since they are with a whole bundle at hand, but, you see, everything is like inbreeding, or if one Kies works with a couple of mares in the stable, which he has to run for himself, but, man, I offer my own strength, which the almighty made me slobber with breast milk, and the strength, man, is absolutely brilliant: the greenhorn first takes the old craft from the master, he must first realize that s'holz has such a structure for my sake, that is, it was supplied with its own embossing when it wasn't even a dead root, because it was deep inside ground floor was lolling around without a trace of light, and the crumbs of the earth pulled at its corners and corners, and then it occurred to him what is in it of its own glory, so this fly shit said to himself: I'll take my capital and make a big investment. "

Zaimoğlu's figures can - at least according to the author - be seen as harbingers of the beginning of a fundamental social change: “Analogous to the black-consciousness movement in the USA, the individual Kanak sub-identities are becoming increasingly aware of overarching contexts and content. [...] Within the mainstream culture, the first rough drafts for an ethnicist structure in Germany emerge . "Because" the Kanaks are not looking for any cultural anchorage. They neither want to use their identities in the supermarket nor get lost in an egalitarian herd [...]. They have their own inner stamping and very clear ideas of self-realization. "

effect

Stage adaptations

Several theaters became aware of the dramatic power of Zaimoğlu's monologues and brought the monologues from Kanak Sprak to the stage - mostly in connection with monologues by young Turkish women from the follow-up band Koppstoff ; first Kampnagel in Hamburg and the Junge Theater Bremen . In 2005, Zaimoglu and his co-author Günter Senkel wrote the monologue piece Black Virgins , which in turn consists of interviews condensed into literary monologues - this time with young women in Germany who have converted to Islam . This piece was also edited and broadcast as a radio play by NDR .

radio play

In 1997, Deutschlandradio and Süddeutsche Rundfunk produced the author's dramaturgically adapted successful book as an original radio play entitled Kanak Sprak . Here acted as spokesman u. a. Ali Aksoy, Ole Peter Jeß, Aykut Kayacik, Mürtüz Yolcu and Feridun Zaimoğlu himself. The piece, which was staged in the manner of a radio documentary , was directed by Götz Naleppa . In some cases, the listeners also received the piece in the belief that it was an original collage.

The radio play is also available as a sound carrier.

Others

The multimedia success of the book meant that the book title became a catchphrase and is now sometimes even used as a kind of technical term for a certain migrant sociolect , which is a mixture of antiquated Turkish, German-English colloquial language and “the mostly excessive use of obscene Idioms with a high proportion of fecal expressions ”. A follow-up volume to Kanak Sprak is the book Koppstoff , which was also published in Turkey.

The book continued to inspire the Kanak Attak group .

literature

  • Feridun Zaimoğlu: Kanak Sprak: 24 discrepancies from the edge of society . 6th edition. Rotbuch, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-434-54518-2 .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ On the term "Old Testament" cf. Georg Freuling:  Old Testament / Old Testament. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific Bibellexikon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Accessed on September 12, 2015 ..
  2. ↑ Rolf-Bernhard Essig : Amerypreis 2007: Laudation for Zaimoglu . ( Memento from August 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Association of German Writers in Bavaria
  3. ↑ Oliver Lubrich: Feridun Zaimoglu - Samuel Fischer guest professor in the summer semester of 2004 . ( Memento of October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Article on the website of the Free University of Berlin, August 4, 2004.