Nazif Telek

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Nazif Telek (born February 3, 1957 in Bitlis , Turkey ; † September 29, 2007 in Düsseldorf ) was a German writer and journalist of Kurdish and Turkish origin.

Life

After attending Turkish schools up to university entrance qualification in 1976, Telek became a structural engineer . In 1980 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he worked in kindergartens and day-care centers until the early 1990s, and had been a German citizen since 1991. Telek described himself as "a tree with Kurdish roots, Turkish trunk and German branches".

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Telek published mainly bilingual stories for children, which he wrote in German and translated into Turkish, or had translated into Kurdish, but also extensive German-language poetry and prose. Journalistic material publications such as Von Kurdistan nach Deutschland (with an afterword by Günter Wallraff , 2004), which traces the “authentic story” of a family on the run from “Saddam's dictatorship”, are the third major genre of his literary work.

In addition, an introductory lecture that Telek gave on September 27, 2003 in Nordhausen on the subject of the people without a lawyer - history, culture, literature and religion in Kurdistan , is now being published in the second edition by the Thuringian regional government 's commissioner for foreigners as a publication on political education.

Telek, a member of the German Writers' Association and the PEN Club , received the WDR Prize for Children's Rights in 1996 . The National Library of German-Language Poetry also honored his poem Deine Kirschlippen , which he had written for his wife, as the best poem of the 2001 competition.

As early as the 1970s, Telek had published his first poems in Turkish under a pseudonym in a regional newspaper.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung once highlighted the author's "expressive and soulful style of speech" in a review of his prose work The Strength of the Lion (1994). Deutschlandradio called the authors a “mediator between the worlds” after the publication of the memory book Ihr Lieben in Bidlis (1999), which was also published as an audio book , and referred to the “mixture of fairy tales, political prose, satire and dreams” that Teleks as exceptional.

One of Telek's numerous children's books - Drei Cowboys in Kurdistan - was also published on CD in a radio play in 2001 .

Nazif Telek died on September 29, 2007 in Düsseldorf-Benrath as a result of a cancer, for which he had been treated since 2001.

Awards

  • WDR Prize for the Rights of the Child (1996)
  • Best poem in the great competition of the National Library of German-Language Poetry (2001)

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personal data
SURNAME Telek, Nazif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist of Kurdish and Turkish descent
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitlis , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2007
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany