Mehmet Ilhami Sezen

Mehmet Ilhami Sezen (born March 11, 1934 in Istanbul ) is a German-Turkish artist and author.

After a mistreatment after a meningitis, he became deaf at the age of 16 and learned the trade of a machine painter. In addition to this work later also employment in the field of fashion design. From 1961 as guest worker in Germany (Munich). Worked here as rail layer, construction worker, driver, interpreter, cabinet maker, after further training, acceptance point manager and translator at an income tax association, from 1982 to 1985 employed by the Senate.

Sezen only appeared more artistically after he was unable to work in 1989 due to a hip and spinal column damage. His fields of activity are u. a. Oil painting, watercolor, etching, nude, portrait and photography. First exhibitions around 1990. In 1992 the artist was awarded the Lucas Cranach Prize , in 1994 he was also awarded the Frankenthal Press Prize. The European Artists' Dictionary paid tribute to Sezen's work.

Sezens' book Arrival in the New Home , published in 2008 by the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe , deals with his experiences as a deaf guest worker in Germany. As an author, he also made contributions to The Sign and Reading Instead of Hearing .

Works

• Arrival in the new home. 44 years ago. Frankfurter Literaturverlag (“Weimarer Schiller-Presse” series) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8372-0110-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Mehmet Ilhami Sezen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed biography ( memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )