Nevfel Cumart

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Nevfel Cumart (born May 31, 1964 in Lingenfeld ) is a German writer , speaker , literary translator and journalist of Turkish descent.

Career

Nevfel Cumart grew up in Stade and attended the Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium there . After graduating from high school in 1984, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . From the winter semester 1986/1987 he studied Turkish , Arabic , Iranian and Islamic studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg . Since 1993 he has been working as a freelance writer, speaker, translator and journalist. He lives in Bamberg.

His first of eighteen volumes of poetry was published in 1983. He has received several prizes and awards. In addition to volumes of poetry, Cumart has published a collection of short stories, numerous prose articles, articles and literary essays in various anthologies and specialist publications. Some of his poems have been translated into Polish, Russian, Danish and Greek, two volumes of poetry have been published in two languages ​​in German-English, and two more in German-Turkish. He has translated works by Turkish authors by Yaşar Kemal , Aziz Nesin , Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca , Celil Oker and Yaşar Nuri Öztürk into German.

Cumart has headed the literary department of the Bamberg city magazine “Fränkische Nacht” since 1992 and is a freelancer in the features section of the daily newspapers “Fränkischer Tag” and “Nürnberger Nachrichten”. He gives lectures and leads seminars on various topics relating to Turkish studies, migration in Germany and the religion of Islam. His reading and lecture trips have taken him abroad several times (including England, Ireland, Turkey, Switzerland, Poland).

Cumart is the 1st chairman of the New Society for Literature Erlangen e. V. (NGL), member of the PEN Center Germany , the European authors' association DIE KOGGE , the Rotary Club Bamberg-Domreiter and on the board of the Association of German Writers (VS), Regional Group Upper Franconia. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Georges Anawati Foundation for the Promotion of Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue .

Awards

  • Author funding from the city of Stade in 1989
  • Literature Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 1992
  • Author's grant from the city of Bamberg in 1993
  • State Promotion Prize for Literature of the State of Bavaria 1995
  • Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) in 1995 and 1996
  • Translator grant from the Yamantürk Foundation Istanbul 1998
  • Culture Prize Bavaria of E.ON Bayern AG 2008
  • Culture Prize of the Upper Franconian Foundation 2009
  • Pax Bank Prize 2011 proposed by the Georges Anawati Foundation
  • Professor of Poetics at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck 2012
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 2014
  • “Artist of the Month” of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region 2016

Works

Poetry
  • In the mirror. Järnecke Verlag, Stade 1983.
  • Heart in the noose. Törtel Verlag, Stade 1985.
  • A melting pot in a sea of ​​flames. Dagyeli Verlag, Frankfurt 1988.
  • Eternal water. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990.
  • Keep the laugh. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1993.
  • Ebedi Su. Eskisehir University Press, Eskisehir 1995.
  • Transformations. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995.
  • Two worlds. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996.
  • The stars are drunk with sleep. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997.
  • Waves of time. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998.
  • On the fairytale roofs. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999.
  • I plant seeds in dreams. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Soul images. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001.
  • On the way home. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2003.
  • Beyond Words - Beyond Words. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006.
  • Towards life. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009.
  • Under the wings of the night. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2012.
  • Tongue of fire. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015.
  • Desert acacia. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015.
stories
  • Wedding with obstacles. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998.
Editing
  • Generation 3000. DTV Verlag, Munich 1998.
  • Stone Dove - Tas Güvercin. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1998.
  • Build a house out of star stones. Spätlese Verlag, Nuremberg 2008.
  • The colors of the foreign. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2009.
  • The discovery of the words. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2010.
  • Flotsam. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2011.
  • Voices slipstream. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2012.
  • Everyone is human at heart. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2013.
  • Together and yet alone. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2014.
  • But the words remain. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2015.
Contributions to anthologies (selection)
  • Self-portrait - literature in Franconia. ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 1999.
  • Find in the sand. Delp Verlag, Bad Windsheim 2000.
  • Be quiet and listen. Walter E. Keller publishing house, 2001.
  • Read lyrics! A Bamberg anthology. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Enough for us! A reader against the right. Geest-Verlag, Ahlhorn 2001.
  • All human dignity. Sauerländer Verlag, Aarau 2001.
  • Free from fear and need. Patmos Verlag, Ostfildern 2004.
  • 30. Anthology. Vetter-Verlag, Geldersheim 2007.
  • The magic of letters. Omnibus Verlag, 2007.
  • Build a house out of star stones. Spätlese Verlag, 2008.
  • Signs & wonders. Perpetuum publishing Verlag, Bamberg 2011.
  • In the middle of Germany. Herder Verlag, 2011.
  • Rock lyric. DTV Verlag, Munich 2011.
  • Opposite me one thing - literary facets. Frantz-Semmelroch Verlag, 2013.
  • You should get an idea. Verlag Bamberg reads, Bamberg 2015.
Translations from Turkish
  • Yasar Kemal: The Fool's Tree. Novel. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1997.
  • Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca: Stone Dove - Tas Güvercin. Poems. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1998.
  • Yasar Nuri Öztürk: 400 questions about Islam - 400 answers. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Yasar Kemal: Well, Zilo. Novel. Baobab Verlag, Zurich 2002.
  • Yasar Nuri Öztürk: Rumi and Islamic mysticism: About the image of man in Islam. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002.
  • Celil Oker: Last Act on the Bosporus. Novel. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2004.
  • Yasar Nuri Öztürk: The falsified Islam. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007.
  • Celil Oker: Dark shops on the Bosporus. Novel. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2008.
  • M. Rami Ayas: Henna Dyed Rocks - Kinali Kayalar. Poems. Genniges Verlag, Bamberg 2011.

See also

literature

  • Eoin Bourke : The Burden of Two Worlds: The Poetry of Nevfel Cumart. In: Because you dance on a rope. Positions in German-language migrant literature. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 1997.
  • Eoin Bourke: Cumart, Nevfel. In: Munzinger Online / KLG - Critical Lexicon for contemporary German literature. 2011 (accessed April 10, 2016).
  • Stefan Neuhaus : Cumart, Nevfel. In: Lexicon of contemporary German-language literature since 1945. Volume 1, Nymphenburger Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2003.
  • Karin E. Yeşilada: Cumart, Nevfel. In: Killys Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Volume 2, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008.
  • Sandra Stalinski: between two worlds. An examination of selected poems by the German-Turkish writer Nevfel Cumart. Master's thesis . Institute for German and Dutch Philology. Free University of Berlin, 2009.
  • Karin E. Yeşilada: Poetry of the Third Language. Second generation Turkish-German poetry. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eoin Bourke: Nevfel Cumart. (PDF) In: Nevfel-Cumart, de. June 1, 2011, p. 1 , accessed March 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cumart, Nevfel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingenfeld