Sefa İnci Suvak

Sefa İnci Suvak (* in Turkey ) is a journalist , author , editor at the radio . Two of her radio reports received a Civis media award . In addition, she initiated and developed (together with Justus Herrmann) the Migration Audio Archive (maa) in Cologne, which was nominated for the Grimme Online Award in 2007 . She is also a co-founder of Artradio .

Life

Suvak was born in Turkey and came to Germany at the age of nine. Here she grew up in Krefeld . After studying history , political science and philosophy at the University of Cologne , from which she graduated with an MA , she became a journalist and culture editor at WDR radio.

Here she was responsible for the culture magazine Scala for many years . Later she took over the table discussions of the WDR5 as a discussion leader . This was followed by articles on television, radio, newspapers and magazines, mainly on issues of migration and culture.

For their WDR show Riff. German-Foreign Love Stories , Suvak received her first Civis Media Prize in 1993. With strength for reconciliation - a visit to Mevlüde Genc (1995), she managed to repeat this success two years later. Afterwards she was appointed to the radio jury for the media award.

The Migration-Audio-Archiv (maa) project co-initiated and conceived by Suvak is a “collection of audible migration stories - narrated migration history”. In the audio archive, migration stories from immigrants of all nations are gradually being prepared for the public and broadcast on the radio, made available at exhibitions and on the Internet.

Suvak's six-part WDR series "I thought, I'll save myself if I go to Germany" - A guest work generation balance sheet (2003) gave Turkish first-generation migrant workers in Germany the opportunity to tell their immigration story.

Also published books on the narrated history of migration.

See also

• List of German-Turkish writers

Web links

• Literature by and about Sefa İnci Suvak in the catalog of the German National Library