Orhan Güner

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Orhan Güner (* 1954 in Ankara ) is a in Germany acting Turkish actor . Also active for the theater as an author, dramaturge and director, he also worked in the field of literary translation.

Life

In the 1980s Güner was heavily involved in the German-Turkish theater world in Berlin, here also as a dramaturge or director z. B. within the Turkish ensemble of the Schaubühne Berlin . His Turkish-language stage version of Nazim Hikmet's Die Verliebte Wolke (1987), which was premiered at the Schaubühne in 1983, attracted particular attention . B. in Oberhausen (1987) and at the City Theater Antalya (2002). The latter was also shown at the Experimental Theater Festival in Cairo .

After the end of the Turkish ensemble, Güner continued to direct the Berlin off-theater scene. In this context, Zafer Şenocak counted him among the most experimental directors, but also remarked that "his idiosyncratic performances, such as (...) Picnic in the field of Fernando Arrabal , enrich the cultural scene of the city without really being noticed. His German-speaking ones Dürrenmatt's production of Büyük Romulus the Great received cross-cultural applause and attention. *

Güner u. a. also at the Berliner Ensemble and Bremer Theater as well as at the State Theater Ankara.

He also wrote the youth theater play This German Night from 1001 Nights (1989) together with Tristan Berger and Hürdem Gürel , which he premiered in 1989 at the Schauburg in Munich. In the same year it was awarded the Fürst Thurn und Taxis sponsorship award at the Bavarian Theater Days in Memmingen. Another youth piece that Güner wrote together with Gürer, Rüya - A Dream in Pictures , was also first staged at the Schauburg, but also shown at the Berlin Festival .

The Turkish translation of the bilingual children's book Pembe by Martina Teepe (2006) is also one of Güner's published literary works.

From the end of the 1980s you can see Güner for the first time in smaller roles on television. With the advent of German-Turkish cinema at the end of the 1990s, he was increasingly seen in films such as Fatih Akıns and Lars Beckers . Güner often played in television thrillers such as Tatort and series. He had major permanent roles in television series with “Demir Yildiz” in Die Anrheiner and “Grandpa Nippes” in Rudi Rüssel (2008). Since 2010 he has played the supporting role of Cem Badak in the series Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten .

The actor has played a leading role in the series since 2013 in the successful Turkish production Galip Derviş : Chief Commissioner Izzet Merdan.

Orhan Güner lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/23028/Koksal_Nazim_Hikmets_Maerchen_Die_verliebte_Wolke.pdf
  2. ^ Zafer Şenocak: Atlas of tropical Germany: Essays , p. 73, Babel 1993
  3. ↑ Erol Boran: History of Turkish-German Theater (Dissertation Ohio State Univ. 2004) , p. 117
  4. ↑ http://www.theaterstueckverlag.de/theatertexte/data/theaterstueckverlag/3819598/tsvshow
  5. ↑ http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/bundeswettbewerbe/theatertreffen_der_jugend/archiv_ttj/chronik_ttj/chronik_ttj_1.php
  6. ↑ http://www.theaterstueckverlag.de/Autoren/autoren/bioA/guener_orhan/showAut
personal data
SURNAME Güner, Orhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara