What do you live
What do you live is a collection of short stories and descriptions of experiences from the pen of Germans of Turkish origin. It was published in 2005 with the subtitle Young, German, Turkish - Stories from Almanya .
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All of the stories and biographical sketches in it address the biculturalism of their German-Turkish authors . They are divided into six subject areas: Where my roots are , What I experience , How I love , How I make a career , What I believe and who I am .
In addition to the editors, the authors include well-known German film and radio professionals , politicians , writers and athletes . Among others, Murat Acevit , Buket Alakuş , Django Asül , Erdoğan Atalay , Ismail Aydın , Güncer Batman , Murat Ham , Murad Bayraktar , Canan Büyrü , Fatih Çevikkollu , Yıldız Deniz , Selma Ergeç , Erci Ergün , Sül , Hakan Haslaman, İpek İpekçioğlu , Cem Özdemir , Selim Özdoğan , Kerim Pamuk , Fikriye Selen-Okatan , Aslı Sevindim , Serdar Somuncu , Türkiz Talay and Canan Topçu .
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Reviewer Alexander Jürgs from the Frankfurter Rundschau found "great, hilarious stories" in the volume, but also noted a risk of "marginalization" and "labeling" of the contributors that cannot be entirely ruled out. In this context, for example, the criticism on the pages of kulturnews.de spoke of “documents that try so hard to show that people of Turkish origin are also humane, that they are almost racist again”. In the foreword of the editors it was pointed out, however, that nobody in the book “wants to be reduced to being of Turkish origin” and “on the other hand does not want to set themselves apart”, “but simply preserve our wide German-Turkish world and at the same time open it to the curious” . The book published by Ayşegül Acevit and Birand Bingül is recommended by the information and documentation center for anti-racism work in North Rhine-Westphalia , but also on the homepage of the German Embassy in Zambia .
Bibliographical reference
- Ayşegül Acevit / Birand Bingül: What do you live? Young, German, Turkish - stories from Almanya . Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-77797-5 .
Web links
- Review notes on What do you live? at perlentaucher.de
- “What do you live?” - The bridge generation - Review by Lisa Zimmermann. In: fluter , October 11, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Jürgs on What do you live? ; In: Frankfurter Rundschau of September 21, 2005
- ↑ IDA-NRW: Overview 1/2006
- ↑ German Embassy Zambia: Foreigners in Germany ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of July 28, 2007
