Vasıf Öngören
Vasıf Öngören (born February 15, 1938 in Kütahya ; † May 1, 1984 Amsterdam ) was a Turkish author and theater founder who lived in Germany several times.
From 1962 to 1966, Öngören studied theater studies in East Berlin and trained with the Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brechts . Then, back in Turkey, he founded the first Brecht-oriented theater in Turkey, the collective theater . In 1977 Öngören went to West Berlin as an exile for political reasons . Here he founded the Kollektiv-Theater GmbH in 1980 . He had previously made it onto the shortlist for the German Youth Book Prize 1979 with a two-volume book publication, Des Märchens Kern (1978). Active in the Netherlands from 1982, Öngören died in one piece in 1984 while rehearsing.
The film festival Turkey / Germany awards Öngören a “Öngören Film Prize for Human Rights and Democracy”.
literature
- Sven Sappelt: Theater of the Migrants; In: Intercultural Literature in Germany. A Handbook, 2007, p. 280
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Öngören, Vasıf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kutahya |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1984 |