Mely Kiyak

Mely Kiyak (2012)

Mely Kiyak (* 1976 in Sulingen ) is a German writer , journalist and columnist .

Life

Kiyak is a daughter from Turkey originating Kurdish immigrant. After studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , she began working as a journalist for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and the Leipziger Volkszeitung . In 1998 she became a German citizen .

Kiyak has been working as an author and freelance journalist in Berlin since 2005. Her texts have appeared in, among others, Die Zeit , der Welt and taz . From 2008 to 2013 of Kiyak appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau , later parallel in the Berliner Zeitung , a political column. Since the end of 2013 she has been writing a regular column on the website of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater , and since 2014 also online for a limited period . The focus of her articles, comments, reports, reviews, feature sections, television and discussion contributions (e.g. also within the ARD press club ) are migration and integration policy and culture.

"To ask immigrants to surrender skin and hair to a vague German existence that the Germans themselves do not know what that could be is presumptuous."

- Mely Kiyak : The Time , 2006

For the Körber Foundation , Kiyak contributed significantly to the book Zweiheimisch (2006) about bicultural life in Germany and in 2007 published book 10 for Germany .

She regularly spends a few days in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary in Fulda, where she and Sister Christa publish the magazine Winke for the organic gardener .

Sarrazin controversy

In May 2012, in her column for the Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau , Kiyak described Thilo Sarrazin , whose right half of his face is partially paralyzed as a result of an operation on a tumor, as a "lisping, stuttering, twitching human caricature" after a television appearance. For this she was criticized in the world and the picture . One week after the appearance of the article, Kiyak stated her intention to point out the “non-physical imperfections in his appearance […]. If I had known the physiological background, I would not have chosen the picture. I regret that very much! ”After persistent criticism, the editors-in-chief of the printing newspapers spoke of a“ perfidious smear campaign ”against the author, which was being promoted in particular via the Politically Incorrect blog . Kiyak documented the nature and direction of these attacks in a critical article on the blog in the Berliner Zeitung . The journalists' association New German Media Makers and the taz also took Kiyak under protection. Friday commented that Kiyak “ got to feel the shitstorm that she wanted to set in motion against [… Sarrazin]” in the end.

The German Press Council saw the "violation of the journalistic principles as so serious" that it expressed disapproval of the Berliner Zeitung . Sarrazin had been " violated in his human dignity ". However, no reprimand was issued because of Kiyak's apology.

"Hate Poetry"

Since 2012, Kiyak has performed together with the journalists Deniz Yücel , Yassin Musharbash , Özlem Topçu , Özlem Gezer , Hasnain Kazim , Doris Akrap and Ebru Taşdemir as part of the “anti-racist reading show” Hate Poetry , during which they read angry letters to the editor in the style of a poetry slam .

Publications

Books :

• Womanhood . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26746-6 .
• Attitude. An essay against being loud. Dudenverlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-411-71765-1 .
• Istanbul Notes . Shelff Verlagsbureau, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-936738-90-2 .
• Mr. Kiyak thought, now the beautiful part of life begins . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-038212-2 .
• Letters to the Nation and Other Inconsistencies . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19619-7 .
• A garden is hidden . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40349-7 .
• 10 for Germany . Talks with members of parliament from Turkey . Edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89684-068-4 .

Contributions to anthologies :

• Elephant round . In: Nicol Ljubić (Ed.): No more anti- Germans! Stories from home . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50246-6 .
• Why not make the cultural scene felt what else is going on . In: Susanne Stemmler (Ed.): Multicultural 2.0 - Welcome to Germany, a country of immigration . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0840-4 .
• Two letters . In: Hilal Sezgin (Ed.): Manifesto of the Many - Germany is reinventing itself . Blumenbar, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-936738-74-2 .

Awards

• 2006: Scholarship from the Senate for Science, Research and Culture for Berlin writers.
• 2011: Theodor Wolff Prize , Category "Comment / Glossary / Essay"
• 2014: Journalist of the Year - Category "Special Prize" (for Hate Poetry , group prize with the other co-founders)
• 2015: Scholarship from the Berlin Senate

See also

• List of German-Turkish writers

Web links

Commons : Mely Kiyak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mely Kiyak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Mely Kiyak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Mely Kiyak at perlentaucher.de
• Germans should stand by their national culture (Kiyak's speech at the international conference of the Goethe Institute ; In: Die Welt, April 25, 2008)
• Article (June 2013) about the protests in Turkey 2013 :
  • Back to back with Erdoğan. - The writer Mely Kiyak is spending three months in Istanbul. So far she thought she knew Turkey. On the very first day she was taught otherwise.
  • TV fairy tale about the harmless water cannon (how Turkish media reports are systematically manipulated about the demonstrations)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mely Kiyak . Körber Foundation . Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
2. ↑ Mely Kiyak: A good country. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 22, 2009.
3. ↑ Mely Kiyak. Brief introduction to Hoffmann and Campe . Retrieved December 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Mely Kiyak: Dear Guido Westerwelle! In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 11, 2008, p. 11.
5. ↑ Kiyak's theater column
6. ↑ Mely Kiyak: German Lesson
7. ↑ You hit woman? You baby in the belly In: Die Zeit , January 19, 2006.
8. ^ Anne Françoise Weber : "There are 28 pioneers, feminists, revolutionaries" In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 30, 2011 (interview).
9. ↑ Mely Kiyak: Dear knowledge society! In: Berliner Zeitung. May 19, 2012, p. 4; This: Dear knowledge society! In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 19, 2012, p. 10.
10. ↑ Cora Stephan : Argue, but right. In: Die Welt , May 29, 2012.
11. ↑ Stephanie Bilges, H. Bruns and Matthias Kluckert: This journalist has to apologize to Sarrazin . In: image . May 26, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
12. ^ Henryk M. Broder : Sarrazin hit a very German nerve . In: The world . May 22, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
13. ↑ Mely Kiyak: A clarification. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 25, 2012, p. 5 and a clarification. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 25, 2012, p. 9.
14. ↑ Dear readers. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 31, 2012, p. 4 and Wider die Hetzkampagne. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 31, 2012.
15. ↑ Mely Kiyak: Vulgar, disinhibited, racist . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 18, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
16. ↑ Bülend Ürük: Racist hatred against journalist: "New German media makers" protect columnist Mely Kiyak . In: newsroom.de . June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
17. ↑ Daniel Bax : The enemy of the Sarrazin fans . In: the daily newspaper . May 29, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
18. ↑ Michael Ginsburg: Derailed rhetoric . the friday . June 14, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
19. ↑ German Press Council: Decision of Complaints Committee 2 in complaint case 0303/12/2-BA . 2012 ( blu-news.org [PDF; 40 kB ]). blu-news.org ( Memento from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
20. ^ Self-presentation of Hate Poetry ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 20, 2014
21. ↑ Mely Kiyak: Dear Sakineh Ashtiani! . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . August 6, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
22. ^ Journalist Prize of the German Newspapers - Theodor Wolff Prize for six journalists . In: Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers . May 19, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
23. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014