Aziz Nesin

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Aziz Nesin (born December 20, 1915 in Istanbul , † July 6, 1995 in İzmir ; actually Mehmet Nusret ) was a prominent Turkish writer who mainly wrote satires .

Live and act

Aziz Nesin was born on the Heybeliada Prince Island in Istanbul and went to school there. His father, Abdulaziz, came from Giresun Province and worked as a gardener in Istanbul. According to Aziz Nesin, his father was very religious and a loyal supporter of Abdülhamid II and an opponent of Ataturk . He grew up in a conservative environment and received Quran lessons as a child from a friend of his father's. In 1935 he graduated from the Kuleli Military School in Istanbul. After graduating from the Ankara Military Academy in 1937 , he became an army officer, from which he was dismissed in 1944 for abuse of office. In 1945 Nesin joined the left-wing newspaper Tan , whose rooms were devastated by nationalist and Islamist students that same year. From 1946 he published the satirical magazine Markopaşa with Sabahattin Ali , in which, among other things, they attacked the political situation. Both were arrested after the third issue, but released after 20 days in detention without charge. To escape the censorship, they renamed the newspaper several times; Nesin went to Bursa in 1947 , Ali was murdered on the border with Bulgaria in 1948, presumably by government agencies. Aziz Nesin then continued to run the newspaper until 1951.

In the following years Nesin worked for various newspapers, including the Milliyet, and published a number of books. His works were repeatedly censored; he himself was in custody for a total of five years, but was repeatedly acquitted. In 1962 there was an arson attack on his publisher.

In 1972 he founded the Nesin Foundation near Çatalca near Istanbul for children whose families cannot finance their access to education. The approximately 45 children and young people (as of 2006) either attend state schools or universities. In a loving environment, the children should be raised to be creative and critical people. The head of the foundation is Aziz Nesin's son, Ali Nesin. He also founded a private college; With this step he turned against the authoritarian structures in the Turkish education system.

Aziz Nesin is a very popular Turkish writer; he wrote over 100 books, some of which have been translated into 40 languages. Because of his critical stance, he had to appear in court at over 200 political trials.

In 1993 Nesin became the editor of the daily Aydınlık . When he there the Turkish translation of excerpts from Salman Rushdie's " Satanic Verses published", he became the object of hatred of Islamic fundamentalists that it in a fatwa for apostates of Islam declared. On July 2, 1993, after Friday prayers, Islamic fundamentalists gathered in front of the conference hotel, which was finally set on fire. Nesin survived slightly injured, but 37 people were killed (see Sivas arson attack ). On July 6, 1995, he died of a heart attack after a reading in İzmir . As an atheist , he had decreed in his will that no Islamic funeral service should be held for him. He was buried on the premises of the Nesin Foundation .

He is the father of the mathematician Ali Nesin .

Awards

  • 1956 Golden Palm
  • 1957 Golden Palma
  • 1966 Golden Hedgehog
  • 1969 Prize of the International Crocodile Satire Competition
  • 1970 Theater Prize from the Turkish Prachverein
  • 1974 Lotus Prize
  • 1978 Madarali-Roman Prize
  • 1985 Award "Popular Writer"
  • 1989 Golden Tolstoy Medal
  • 1993 Carl von Ossietzky Medal

The European primary school on Urbanstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg was named after him.

Trivia

In 1949 Aziz Nesin was accused by the present British Queen Elizabeth II , the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Egyptian King Faruq for lese majesty and was imprisoned for six months.

Works (selection in German)

  • But my dreams, give them back to me. Selected poems Turkish-German , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-922825-88-3
  • The unholy hodja. Turkish humoresques , Vienna 1961
  • The night with the madman and other Turkish stories , Berlin 1964
  • The scandalous stories of the Turkish crook Zübük. A satirical novel , Berlin 1965
  • The football king , Berlin 1968
  • Between the Bosporus and Anatolia. Stories from Turkey , Berlin 1975
  • A ship called Democracy. Political satires and a play from Turkey , Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-88677-917-3 .
  • How do you prepare for a coup? Political satires from Turkey , Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-921347-05-X .
  • The only way , Roman, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-293-20053-2 .
  • We live in the 20th century , Berlin 1983
  • How Elefanten-Hamdi was arrested , stories about the police, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88677-918-1 .
  • It can't go on like this , autobiography, two volumes, Berlin 1986/89
  • Heimatfilm , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88677-937-8 .
  • Surname. One asks for the gallows , Roman, Düsseldorf 1988 and Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-293-20066-4 .
  • The diversion , Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88677-940-8 .
  • The houses at Nachtigallenhain , Pullenreuth 1995
  • A madman on the roof. Master satires from fifty years , Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41243-2 .
  • Five stories from 'Crazy on the Roof'. A Turkish reading book with German explanations for advanced readers, Engelschoff 2005, ISBN 978-3-933847-08-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Böyle gelmis böyle Gitmez 1- yol, Aziz Nesin, Adam 1966 YAYINLARI
  2. ^ State European School German-Turkish: Welcome! Hoş Geldiniz! ( Memento from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nesin, Aziz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish political author and satire writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Heybeliada Prince Island , Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1995
Place of death İzmir