Tarabya
Tarabya (Greek Phamakias ; later renamed Therapia ) is a historic district of Istanbul and is located on the European bank of the Bosporus . Today the international school Tarabya British Schools is located here .
history
The place is famous for its residential area, in which you can find numerous wooden houses ( Yalı , for example the Huber Köşkü of the Krupp company ), restaurants and facilities of foreign consulates (former embassies), including the extensive German embassy park in Tarabya, 1880, a gift from Ottoman ruler Abdülhamid II
Within the park there is also a German military cemetery, which reveals some forgotten episodes of German-Turkish history with its graves. These are graves of German soldiers who fell on the Dardanelles, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Persia during the First World War, as well as the dead of the cruiser SMS Breslau . The sculptor Georg Kolbe designed a monument made of shell limestone there in 1917/1918, which shows a dying warrior on the knees of an angel. The war cemetery was expanded in 1981/1982. Fallen two world wars from all over Turkey were reburied there. Some of the wealthier Bosporus Germans of the first generation also lived in Therapia .
In 1909 Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan opened the second of his famous Tokatlıyan hotels here .
Culture academy
In May 2011 it was decided that a cultural academy subordinate to the German embassy in Ankara would be set up in Tarabya . The Goethe-Institut in Istanbul takes on the curatorial responsibility and looks after the artists who live in Tarabya. Five to seven artists from Germany will work in the historic buildings, with grants for three to ten months. The scholarships are awarded by a jury under the supervision of an advisory board. It is not possible to apply for the residence scholarship. No details have been published about the award modalities.
The jury in 2012 included Wolfgang Rihm , David Elliott, Sibel Kekilli , Shermin Langhoff and Joachim Sartorius . The jury is appointed by the advisory board chaired by the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Steffen Kampeter. The Advisory Board includes representatives of the Bundestag, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Goethe Institute and the Foreign Office who are not named in the Academy's press releases. The academy council should also act in an advisory capacity with regard to the conceptual guidelines for the cultural academy.
Translator award
The Tarabya German-Turkish Translation Prize was awarded between 2010 and 2017 . The award was made as part of the "Ernst Reuter Initiative for Dialogue and Understanding Between Cultures" and was jointly approved by the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, the Goethe Institute Istanbul, the S. Fischer Foundation , the Yunus Emre Institute and the Robert Bosch Foundation .
The aim of the award was to promote intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and Turkey and to honor the important role that literary translators play as mediators of cultures. A main prize and a sponsorship prize were awarded for excellent translations of Turkish and German literature into the other language.
The winners in the period 2010–2017 were:
2010: Main Prize: Ingrid Iren and Ahmet Cemal ; Sponsorship award: Michael Heß and Cemal Ener
2011: Main prize: Kamuran Sipal and Gerhard Meier; Sponsorship award: Nafer Ermis , Angelika Hoch and Angelika Gillitz Acar
2012: Main Prize: Cornelius Bischoff and Ahmet Arpad ; Sponsorship award: Ayça Sabuncuoğlu and Johannes Neuner
2013: Main prize: Sezer Duru and Ute Birgi-Knellessen ; Sponsorship award: Monika Demirel and Tanıl Bora .
2014: Main Prize: Gürsel Aytaç ; Sponsorship award: Suzan Geridönmez
2015: Main Prize: Barbara Yurtdaş ; Sponsorship award: Eric Czotscher
2016: Main Prize: Tevfik Turan and Regaip Minareci ; Sponsorship award: Atilla Dirim
literature
- Martin Bachmann : Tarabya: History and development of the historical summer residence of the German ambassador on the Bosporus. German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul 2003, ISBN 975-8070-65-7 .
- Klaus Wolf: Gallipoli 1915. The German-Turkish military alliance in the First World War. Report, Sulzbach / Ts., Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-932385-29-2 , pp. 206-232.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ What constitutes suffering in war in FAZ from April 19, 2014, page 12.
- ↑ Foreign Office: Foreign Office - The Ernst Reuter Initiative for Dialogue and Understanding between Cultures . In: Foreign Office DE . ( Auswaertiges-amt.de [accessed on August 20, 2018]).
Coordinates: 41 ° 8 ' N , 29 ° 3' E