Melda Akbaş

Melda Akbaş (born April 23, 1991 in Berlin ) is a German-Turkish author .

Melda Akbaş is the daughter of Turkish parents and grew up in Berlin. Akbaş was the deputy head girl and served on the district student committee. In 2010 she completed her school education with the Abitur at the Robert Koch Oberschule in Berlin-Kreuzberg . At that time she was already working for the Turkish community in Germany . Your project los - let's organize somethin ' received an award in 2009 from Deutsche Bank and the initiative Germany - Land of Ideas .

With her book, which she started as a student: “As I want”. My life between mosque and miniskirt , it caught the attention of German and Turkish media in 2010. She was among others in September 2010 alongside Ulrich Wickert and talk show guest with Markus Lanz and Anne Will .

She lives in Hamburg .

Works

• The way I want . My life between mosque and miniskirt. 4th edition, Bertelsmann , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10043-1 .
• Why is no one asking us? What goes wrong in school. 1st edition, Bertelsmann , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10093-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Melda Akbaş in the catalog of the German National Library
• Don't say anything now, Melda Akba's interview in: Magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Short biography and reviews of works by Melda Akbaş at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melda Akbaş writes: "For the Germans I am a Turkish woman, for the Turks a German" - in fact, the German and Turkish-born Seconda has had German citizenship since the age of 9 - and this exclusively - as she herself emphasizes.
2. ↑ Interview / conversation with Melda Akbas and Jesper Juul, chrismon Magazin 01/2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)