Mete İzgi

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Mete İzgi (* 1963 in Eskişehir , Turkey ) is a German-Turkish writer and playwright.

life and work

İzgi grew up in Yalova near Istanbul, attended the military high school on the Bosporus and did military service as a radar operator in the Turkish submarine fleet until 1985. In September 1985 he came to Germany to start studying law at the University of Osnabrück; here he also did voluntary work in the Protestant student community and in the Erich Maria Remarque Society. İzgi completed his Magister Artium (MA) in literature and political science at the University of Osnabrück as well as the first and second state examinations for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of German and politics. He worked on his doctorate until 2009 and has been a teacher since 2009.

As a writer, he first appeared in 1993 with texts on the literary telephone. At this time he also began to publish short stories in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . From 1998 to 2000 he also wrote for the magazine Remarque-Aktuell . In 1994 he won a prize in the poster lyric competition Courage - Poems against violence organized by the literature office Westniedersachsen . İzgi worked on a novel Yeşilyurt - Between Two Fires (published 1997), for which he received an artist grant from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture in 1995 and which was also brought to the stage as a play. In 1996 he received the artist prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart for another stage play - Father's Day . In the same year, he was awarded a prize at the VHS literature competition in Lower Saxony for a prose piece from the planned second novel, Last Harvest . In 1997, the Thuringian State Chancellery's youth theater award for the play The Hidden Mirror followed .

Mete İzgi lives in Osnabrück.

Plays

  • Yesilyurt Between two fires . World premiere: PROBEBÜHNE, Osnabrück 1994.
  • The hidden mirror . Staged reading. Schauspielhaus Erfurt 1997 and emma-theater, Osnabrück 2000.

Single track

  • Yeşilyurt - Between two fires. Roman, Avlos-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1997, ISBN 3-929634-15-5 .

Anthologies and literary journals

  • 30 years of Turkish migrants in Germany . Reading book. Dortmund 1992.
  • Home . Anthology. Publishing house Janssen, Cloppenburg 1995.
  • Place of eyes . Literary magazine. Saxony-Anhalt Literature Office. 1996.
  • Over this distance . VHS Lower Saxony. 1996.
  • The song of the clay horse . Play. 1998.
  • Soul mate . Short story. An internet project as part of the intercultural weeks of the city of Osnabrück. (www.kreativlabor.osnabrueck.de) 2002.
  • The night of Lisbon . Stage version of the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque . 1998.
  • The daughter of the forest . Short story. In: The jaguar in the mirror l. A KOGGE reading book. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937139-93-7 .
  • A harmless game . Short story. In: Identities . Bucher Verlag, Hohenems / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-99018-050-1 .
  • Find real killers . Short story. In: dyke corpses . KBV Verlag, Hillesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3942446037 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In love with the German language since childhood, immigration by birth Turkish native Mete Izgi teaches German and politics at the Wildeshausen grammar school  ( 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. nwz online, January 6, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwzonline.de  
personal data
SURNAME İzgi, Mete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Eskişehir , Turkey