Osman Okkan

Osman Okkan (* 1947 in Ankara ) is a German-Turkish journalist and filmmaker .

Life

Okkan was born in Turkey and came to Germany in 1965. From 1966 to 1976 he studied economics, sociology and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. (MA). He then worked as a freelance journalist for German and Turkish media. From 1986 to 2006 he was a documentary filmmaker for WDR . He founded the Kulturforum Turkey Germany , whose board spokesman he is today. In 2009 he co-founded the Hrant Dink Forum Cologne.

In the past few years he was responsible for several documentaries for WDR and arte .

Awards

• 1982: Grimme Prize
• 2004: Öngören Prize (together with Simone Sitte) of the Nuremberg Film Festival Turkey Germany for expelled for peace
• 2012: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2014: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Filmography

• 1993: Poet & Rebel: Nazim Hikmet
• 1996: Thoughts like explosive - intellectuals in Turkey
• 1997: Between poetry and politics: Yaşar Kemal
• 2003: Displaced for Peace - When Greeks and Turks were separated
• 2009: Hrant Dink murder files - Armenians in Turkey

Web links

• Osman Okkan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Career of Osman Okkan
• Helene Pawlitzki: Interview with the filmmaker Osman Okkan on planet-schule.de, December 2010, accessed on July 24, 2016
• DLF (Deutschlandfunk) cultural issues. Debates and documents of July 24, 2016: Turks in Germany. "Erdogan's extended arm has been here for a long time". The journalist and documentary filmmaker Osman Okkan in conversation with Martin Gerner

Individual evidence

1. ^ Authors 2010 , Book Fair Ruhr, accessed on August 9, 2014.
2. ↑ Osman Okkan Awards , IMDb, accessed August 12, 2016
3. ↑ Awarded the State Order of Merit on December 7, 2012. In: Wir in NRW - Das Landesportal. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, December 7, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2017 . 
4. ^ Federal Cross of Merit: Osman Okkan , WDR, accessed on August 9, 2014.