Tezer Özlü

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Tezer Özlü Kıral (* 1943 in Anatolia ; † February 18, 1986 in Zurich ) was a Turkish literary translator and writer who also worked in Germany.

Live and act

Tezer Özlü is a sister of Demir Özlü and Sezer Duru . She attended the Catholic, Austrian St. Georgs College in Istanbul . From 1963 she worked as a writer of prose and as a literary translator, translating works by Italo Svevo , Franz Kafka and Cesare Pavese into Turkish. She was a long-time employee of the Turkish-German Cultural Advisory Board and Goethe Institute in Istanbul. In the early 1980s she came to West Berlin as a DAAD scholarship holder .

At the German-Turkish authors' meeting held in (West) Berlin in 1980 , Kıral took on the role of simultaneous interpreter and translator for four days, almost continuously , as the city of Berlin had not provided an interpreter for the event for financial reasons.

In Germany, Özlü wrote a German-language novel, On the Trail of a Suicide (1982), for which she was awarded the literary prize of the university town of Marburg and the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .

Her Turkish novel Çocukluğun soğuk geceleri was translated into German by the well-known Turkologist Wolfgang Riemann and was published in 1985 by the special Berlin publisher EXpress-Edition . In the same year a Dutch translation was published by the Utrecht publishing house Sjaloom . In 1989 the EXpress Edition published a German paperback edition. The autobiographical novel received critical and public recognition.

Tezer Özlü died on February 18, 1986 in Zurich.

In the 1980s, Özlü was counted among the most important younger representatives of Turkish women's literature alongside Aysel Özakin , Tomris Uyar and Nazlı Eray . Michael Krüger dedicated the poem Istanbul to the author while she was still alive , which appeared in his volume of poems Aus der Ebene (1982).

Works (selection)

  • Most of the time, Tezer Kıral is listed as Tezer Özlü , because she had dropped the name of her second husband.
  • Unless otherwise stated, the works listed below have been published in Turkish .

Novels

  • Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri . Derinlik Yayınları, Istanbul 1980, without ISBN; 2nd edition, Yapı Kredi Yayinları, Istanbul 1995, ISBN 975-363260-6 . ( The cold nights of childhood . EXpress-Edition , Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88548-048-4 ; German translation from Turkish by Wolfgang Riemann )
  • Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk Ada Yayınları, Istanbul 1984, without ISBN; 9th edition, Yapı Kredi Yayinları, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975-363154-5 .

Volumes of stories

  • Eski Bahçe-Eski Sevgi . Ada Yayinları, Istanbul 1978, without ISBN; 8th edition, Yapı Kredi Yayinları, Istanbul 2003, ISBN 975-363-190-1 .

records

Correspondence

  • Leyla Erbil'e Mektuplar . Yapı Kredi Yayinları, Istanbul 1995, ISBN 975-363-259-2 ; 2nd edition, Yapı Kredi Yayinları, Istanbul 2001, ISBN like first edition.

Scripts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Litfass 1981 v. 14, no. 48 - v. 15, no. 53, p. 141
  2. ^ German-Turkish writers' meeting. A scandal , article by Karin Kersten in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit on December 19, 1980 (last accessed: May 9, 2009).
  3. ^ Association of Librarians at Public Libraries: Book and Library 1991, p. 280
  4. ^ Tezer Özlü in the KVK .
  5. ↑ Filmography - Tezer Özlü Kiral at filmportal.de (last call: May 11, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Özlü, Tezer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kıral, Tezer (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish literary translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Anatolia
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1986
Place of death Zurich