Head fabric
Koppstoff ( slang for headscarf) is a book by Feridun Zaimoglu from 1998.
Under the title Kafa Örtüsü , the work is one of the few texts by the author that has also appeared in Turkey. In Germany, Koppstoff experienced several theater adaptations, including a. at Hamburg's Thalia in Gaußstrasse.
Koppstoff , with its subtitle Kanaka Sprak from the edge of society, is the counterpart to the even earlier Kanak Sprak - 24 discordant notes from the edge of society (1995). Both belong to the author's early works, which deal strongly with immigrant worlds. While in one of these, young men draw attention to their situation in "rap texts", in Koppstoff it is young women.
The following text example made of Koppstoff makes the linguistic demand and also the difficulty for translators of the work clear: “The mute that I am has bulging speech, has monster whip on the tongue. Speaks Kackmeierstammel. And because nobody sees the picture on my tongue, nobody wants to know what I'm talking about. As if a fat ribbon were wrapped around my lean tongue, my null Assimil speech is mistaken for Gaga-unspeaking. People ask themselves: does a gaga have something to say to me? My monster whip, however, to be clear, is blessed with all harassment. "
Several theaters - including Kampnagel Hamburg and Junge Theater Bremen - dramatized the monologues from Koppstoff together with texts from Kanak Sprak - 24 discordant notes from the fringes of society .
For Detlef Grumbach , Koppstoff has left "the so-called" guest worker literature "of the seventies and eighties far behind. Here, understanding is not sought from the perspective of being affected, but rather self-confident and impatient. Feridun Zaimoglu conveys an attitude towards life that [sic] perhaps even connects the revolting urban youth of the nineties - beyond their nationality. The spontaneous, wild articulation of rapeseed speaks from his texts. Nothing gets pasted: Fear, love and hate, authentic feelings that get under your skin, oscillate in an artistic language full of hardness, poetry and tenderness. "
Chaoze One released an EP Koppstoff loosely based on the book in 2004 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.jungeforschung.de/migranten/vorlesung%20migranten%20juli%202005/sld035.htm
- ↑ Koppstoff - Kanaka Sprak from the margins of society Book review by Detlef Grumbach, Germany radio , heading book market , January 14, 1999
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 5, 2008 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.
