Nedim Hazar

Nedim Hazar (* 1960 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a Turkish actor , musician , composer , cabaret artist , radio and television journalist and documentary filmmaker in Germany and Turkey.

Life

Hazar grew up in Sydney and Istanbul. In 1980 he came to Germany as a political refugee, where he began working as an artist in 1983 and still performs in various functions today. But now he has been living in Istanbul again most of the time.

From 1983 to 1986 Hazar was initially a mime in the ensemble of the Ruhr Festival . During this time he founded his relatively successful ethno-pop band Yarınistan , which made numerous international stage and television appearances and published records, for which he was henceforth also active as a musician and composer. For each of the two albums that now appear on Yarınistan in Germany, Hazar and his bandmate and co-founder of the band get Geo Schaller the Prize of the German Record Critics . A single from the formation and a Popmüzik cassette will also be released in Turkey.

Still within the formation Yarınistan (at times only the Schaller / Hazar duo), Hazar appeared increasingly as a cabaret artist in the 1990s, with verbal contributions - but also as a music cabaret artist. The highlight in this regard was certainly an appearance by Yarınistan in the Mitternachtssitzen on September 18, 1993, the "all social workers, immigration offices, foreigners commissioners, foreigners' initiatives, foreigners friends, SPD members, CDU members, FDP members, Greens, communists and leftists, who at their festivals kebap, folklore and Never Forget Raki “was dedicated.

Hazar's only appearance as a film actor was in Hark Bohm's Yasemin (1988), in which he played the role of Hassan. In 1994 Hazar shifted his field of activity to radio and television journalism. Since then, numerous reports, features and other documentary works have appeared under his authorship. As a filmmaker for the Goethe Institute , he shot the documentary feature film Refuge on the Bosporus (Germany, 2001), for which he also wrote the screenplay.

In 2004 Hazar directed and screenplay as well as camera and editing for the Turkish documentary Mercan Dede ile bir yolculuk , which accompanies the Turkish-Canadian Sufi and electronic musician Mercan Dede on a trip through Turkey. The filmmaker had already presented a musical documentary about Burhan Öçal and Silaya Dönüş in 2003 that was produced in Turkey: Burhan Öçal / A Musical Homecoming . The films, which were originally shot for Turkish television, are shown at international festivals with English subtitles. B. on the Munich Sinema Türk .

Hazar is considered an expert in world music and is also a DJ (also on Turkish radio) in this context. He also writes articles for specialist literature on the subject.

Hazar is the father of Eko Fresh .

Awards

German Record Critics' Prize with Yarınistan for Maybe (1986)
German Record Critics' Prize with Yarınistan for One Day Soon (1988)

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personal data
SURNAME	Hazar, Nedim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish actor, musician and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul , Turkey