Sümeyra

Sümeyra at a concert with Ruhi Su in Germany 1979

Sümeyra (born May 25, 1946 in Edirne ; † February 5, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ), bourgeois Sümeyra Çakır , was a Turkish singer and Saz interpreter of popular ballads who lived and worked in Germany from 1980 .

The socially critical artist suffered from persecution in her home country (in Turkey she sang protest songs by and with Ruhi Su ), so that she fled to Germany in 1980. She left her first artistic traces in the Federal Republic with the LP Lieder aus der Fremde / Lieder für den Frieden , produced by Plans in 1979/1980 , on which she was accompanied as a soloist by the Turkish Workers' Choir West Berlin .

In Lutz Görner's and Tahsin İncirci's program I love my country: Lutz Görner speaks Nazim Hikmet, Sümeyra then worked as a Saz interpreter. Later the artist went on tour with her own concert programs (e.g. Faces of Our Women , 1986). Her performances have taken her to Sydney and Helsinki .

Further CDs were released posthumously : for Nazim Hikmet's 100th birthday (2001) a recording of recitations alternating with settings sung by Sümeyra and Türkü: Recital I - Faces of women & Recital II - My red crane (1986/2000). Gülbahar Kültür mixed the artist into her CD sound image Made in Turkey - the world of Turkish grooves in 2005 . In Turkey, a historical recording of a joint concert with Ruhi Su in the Dostlar Theater was released on cassette . Ali Yüce dedicated a poem to her.

In 1995, Hannelore Marzi dedicated her book Oriental Women's Tales, among other things, to the “memory of (her) friend Sümeyra Cakir”.

Discography (Germany)

Gülbahar Kültür: Made in Turkey (2005?)
Nâzim Hikmet (2001)
Türkü (2000)
Faces of Our Women (1994)
Ruhi Su: Dostlar Tiyatrosu Konseri (1991)
Lutz Görner: I love my country (1982)
Songs for Peace and Songs from Abroad (1979; 1980)

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personal data
SURNAME	Sümeyra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Çakır, Sümeyra (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish singer and Saz interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edirne
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1990
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main