Levent Aktoprak
Levent Aktoprak (born September 18, 1959 in Ankara , Turkey ) is a German writer , radio and television journalist .
Life
Aktoprak came to Germany as a toddler. He studied sociology , education and literature at the comprehensive university in Wuppertal . Today (2018) he works as a freelance radio journalist for Deutschlandfunk .
In the literary field , Aktoprak works as a narrator , but primarily as a poet . In 1980 he was awarded the a cycle of poems literature - Award of the city Bergkamen . Books of poetry such as Development (1983) and Untererm Arm die Odyssey (1987) appeared later . In 1991, Aktoprak published his poem The Sea Still in Mind .
Also collaboration with musicians, for example the 1993 program overcoming borders with Kazim Çalisgan .
He is known to a wide audience as the presenter of the Germany radio program Tag für Tag - Aus Religion und Gesellschaft . He is also the president of the BVB International eV fan club
Levent Aktoprak lives together with his partner and son in Kamen .
Awards
- 1980: First winner of the Bergkamen Literature Prize
- 1989: Civis Media Prize for “Merhaba”.
Web links
- Further information on Levent Aktoprak from the Westphalian Literature Office
- Literature by and about Levent Aktoprak in the catalog of the German National Library
- Levent Aktoprak in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Levent Aktoprak. In: NRW literature on the net. Westfälisches Literaturbüro in Unna eV, September 7, 2011, accessed on January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Levent Aktoprak: Under the arm the Odyssey . Daǧyeli, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-924320-56-0 .
- ↑ Levent Aktoprak: The sea still in your head . Dağyeli, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-89329-127-4 .
- ↑ Imprint website Fanclub BVB International eV, accessed on December 10, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aktoprak, Levent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, radio and television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ankara , Turkey |