Safiye Can

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Safiye Can at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Safiye Can (born August 24, 1977 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German poet, writer, literary translator and poet of concrete and visual poetry .

Life

Safiye Can was born and raised in Offenbach; she has Circassian ancestors. She studied philosophy, psychoanalysis and law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed her studies with a master's thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche's " Also sprach Zarathustra ". In 2014 she made her debut with her volume of poetry Rose and Nightingale at the Frankfurt megalomania publishing house . From 2010 to 2017 Can worked as a freelancer for the Horst Bingel Foundation for Literature. She has been the curator of the Zwischenraum Library for Art and Migration of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 2013 . She has been involved in the Association of Turkish- Speaking Writers of Europe (ATYG) since 2012 .

She worked as a teacher in Offenbach and then worked for several years as an assistant director at the Landestheater Burghofbühne Dinslaken . Since 2004 she has been running writing workshops at schools and other institutions, where she introduces children and young people to modern poetry and develops her own texts with them. In 2014, while she was working as a school artist in Offenbach am Main, she founded the Dichter-Club writing workshop.

Can is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the International PEN , a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and a member of the Association of German Language Translators (VdÜ) . She is also a volunteer at Amnesty International .

Safiye Can lives in Offenbach am Main.

job

In 2014 she made her debut with her volume of poetry Rose und Nachtigall (megalomania publishing house), in which classic motifs from Arabic and Persian poetry are combined with everyday language and observations. In 2015 the band This stop I made myself followed (megalomania publishing house). In addition to a strongly rhythmic metric and a tone of voice that alternates between casual everyday language and excessive stylization, her poetry is also characterized by a special design: Can composes concrete and visual poetry, writes or glues poetry collages and thus takes into account the strong imagery of the texts the shape again. In 2017 she published Children of the Lost Society ( Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen ). Safiye Can works as a poet closely with the Hessischer Rundfunk (hr) , is a guest at numerous literary festivals in Germany and abroad (including Sprachsalz Hall in Tirol (A), W: ORTE Innsbruck (A), Poetree Lyrikfestival Göttingen, Reading Lenz Hausach, Harbor Front Hamburg, global Bremen, Minne meets Poetry Konstanz, Literature Festival Salzburg (A), Literatur Live Zurich (CH)) and works as a guest lecturer at universities. Since the beginning of 2019 she has been a board member of the renowned magazine for literature, art and criticism: die horen .

In addition to the lyrical work, she also writes smaller prose pieces and works as a literary translator, v. a. of poetry from Turkish (especially literary movements Garip and Second New ) or into Turkish, including works by Else Lasker-Schüler , Franz Mon , Gerhard Rühm , Nâzım Hikmet , Attila İlhan , Turgut Uyar , Cemal Süreya and Kemal Yalçın .

Works

Poetry

  • Rose and nightingale . Love poems. Megalomania Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014. (6th edition 2016)
  • I made this stop for myself . Poems. Megalomania Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015. (3rd edition 2016)
  • Less is nothing. Poems. Literature machine, Basel 2015.
  • Children of Lost Society . Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017. (2nd edition 2018)
  • Rose and nightingale . Love poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2020 (2nd edition 2020)

prose

  • The half-half and the whole . Narrative. Verlag Literatur Quicke, Hamburg 2014.
  • I couldn't think of a title . Prose miniatures. Literature machine, Düsseldorf 2015.

Translations (selection)

  • Engin Korelli: The bat that wasn't . Children's book. Publishing house Lingua Mundi, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Ataol Behramoğlu: At heart a child in his pocket a revolver . Poems. Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2016. (incl., Audio book; Turkish, German)

Editorships

  • Ataol Behramoğlu: At heart a child in his pocket a revolver . Selected poems, bilingual including audio book, Elif Verlag, 2016. (as editor and translator)
  • with Jürgen Krätzer: Take your word for it. Concrete and other forms of play of poetry 1 that listen . Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism, Volume 271, September 2018.
  • with Jürgen Krätzer: Take your word for it. Concrete and other forms of poetry 2 that listen . Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism, Volume 272, September 2018.

Secondary literature on Safiye Can

  • Umut Balcı: Literary Style Analysis in Poems by Safiye Can. In: International Journal of Languages' Education and Teaching. Mannheim 2015, pp. 414-428.
  • Umut Balcı: Safiye Can'da Poetics Yaklaşımlar (Translation: The Poetics of Safiye Can) . Kriter Yayınevi, Istanbul 2018, ISBN 978-605-2228-51-7 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Safiye Can  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Safiye Can. In: literaturport.de , accessed on April 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Uta Grossmann: Lyrik: Over there you have your life under control. In: fr.de. March 16, 2017, accessed April 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Can, Safiye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and literary translator of Circassian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main