Nizamettin Ariç
Nizamettin Ariç (* 1956 in Ağrı / Turkey ) is a Kurdish singer and film director. He has lived in Berlin since 1980.
Ariç was born in Ağrı. He grew up listening to the songs of the dengbêj (traditional bards) and the famous Kurdish singers Dengbêj Şakiro, Gerabêtê Xaço, Meyrem Xan and Zadîne Şakir. In 1956 he moved with his family from Ağrı to Ankara . In 1976 Ariç worked on cultural programs for the Turkish state television TRT . When he gave a Kurdish concert in Ağrı in 1979, the TRT fired him. After the military coup in Turkey in 1980 , he fled the country and received political asylum in Germany in 1984 .
He published his first albums under the pseudonym Feqiyê Teyra , the name of a Kurdish poet from the 14th century. In his songs he sang many traditional songs and songs about the situation of the Kurds. Among other things, he set poems by Cigerxwin to music . Ariç plays the longitudinal flute nay , the smaller shepherd's flute bilûr , the short oboe mey , the cone oboe zirne , the two long-necked lutes tanbur and çumbuş , as well as the drum dahol and the frame drum def .
His feature film Ein Lied für Beko , made in the 1980s and a German production, is named by Filmlexika as the first Kurdish-language feature film in film history.
Movies
- Bir günün hikayesi (The story of one day)
- Klamek ji bo Beko (A song for Beko)
Music albums
- Kurdish Ballads 1 and 2
- Cûdî
- Wêneyên xewnê (Helepçe)
- Çiyayên me
- Dayê
- Zînê
- Bêrîvann
- Dîlan
- Diyarbekir
literature
- Constanze Suhr: Songs for the Kurdish identity. taz, December 8, 1984
- Nizamettin Aric in: Between Cultures - Musicians from Turkey in Berlin. Television feature (58'03 ") by Constanze Suhr and Burkhard Voiges, Sendung Nord III (SFB), 1987
- Constanze Suhr: Escape to Berlin. Berliner Profiles, TIP 25/1992
- Constanze Suhr: Like wild thistles. Nizamettin Aric's film "A Song for Beko". TIP 3/1993
Web links
- Nizamettin Ariç in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ariç, Nizamettin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish singer and film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ağrı , Turkey |