Murad Bayraktar

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Murad Bayraktar (born August 23, 1974 in Witten ) is a German - Turkish journalist , editor and radio presenter .

Life

Murad Bayraktar spent his childhood in Germany and went to primary school in Witten. He then lived in Istanbul at first .

After studying at the University of Istanbul (diploma in English ), he went on to study for a master's degree in Bochum ( politics and sociology ). At the age of 23, after taking part in the Örsan Öymen reporting competition of the Turkish editorial staff of WDR, he was invited to the Cologne broadcaster as an intern .

Between 1997 and 2004 Bayraktar worked as a freelance author and presenter in the television and radio programs of the WDR. There he moderated the radio show Cologne Radyosu and the German-Turkish Sunday magazine Café Alaturka . During his time as a freelance journalist, he also worked for other ARD broadcasters, in particular Deutsche Welle and as deputy editor-in-chief of the German-language magazine Türkis . As an online editor, Bayraktar was editor-in-chief of the website cafeterra.de until 2004, which was funded by the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Robert Bosch Foundation . For TRT-INT he presented the 13-part television series Madem Ki Oradasınız (2005), which dealt with Turkish youth culture in Europe. During his student days he had already moderated and edited for an Istanbul radio station.

Bayraktar became editor at WDR at Funkhaus Europa (today Cosmo ) in 2003 . During his time as an editor, he also worked for other editorial offices at WDR for a short time. a. for radio plays on the radio or the ARD broadcast Monitor . From November 2009 he headed the Turkish editorial team at WDR. In April 2013 he switched to the WDR in Düsseldorf as NRW-CvD / speaker. In April 2017 he became deputy head of the WDR regional studio in Düsseldorf. Since March 2019 he has been heading the cross-media regional studios of the WDR.

The American Council on Germany awarded Bayraktar the 2005 John J. McCloy Fellowship for Journalists, which he completed in Washington DC, New York and California to research multicultural media in the USA .

In addition to various articles that Bayraktar has published so far, two of his contributions have appeared in edited volumes. In What do you live? by Ayşegül Acevit and Birand Bingül he wrote about Little Istanbul . In the book Between the Worlds and Official Attributions , edited by Ludger Pries , his contribution is Between Migration and Integration: Official Terminology for Immigration and the Quantitative Implications of Naturalizations for German Statistics .

In 2008, together with Uwe Schareck, he directed the production of the Turkish version of Deniz Başpınar's radio play Misafir / Gast-Spiele , which won the German-Turkish radio play competition “Are you too foreign, you're too German” by WDR.

Bayraktar was also involved in charitable associations, including a. for the Cultural Forum TurkeyGermany, the Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany and in the Association of New German Media Makers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WDR: profile in WDR.de. WDR, November 12, 2017, accessed November 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Murad Bayraktar. June 1, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ARD audio game database. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bayraktar, Murad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten