What does Niyazi want in Naunynstrasse?

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What does Niyazi want in Naunynstrasse? ( Turkish Niyazi'nin Naunyn Sokağında İşi Ne? ) is a poem by Aras Ören from 1973. It forms the first part of his Berlin trilogy, which also includes The Short Dream from Kagithane (1974) and The Foreign Is Also A House (1980) belong. In 2019, on Ören's 80th birthday, the three volumes were published in one volume for the first time - with a current foreword by the author - under the title "Berliner Trilogie. Drei Poeme".

Initial release

The first publication appeared in German in the left-wing Berlin Rotbuch Verlag . The poem is 68 pages long and was translated into German by H. Achmed Schmiede and Johannes Schenk in cooperation with the author, who to this day has mainly written his works in Turkish.

effect

From the point of view of some literary scholars, it is the first work by a Turk in Germany that was able to attract the attention of the German literary scene. For Ören himself it meant the literary breakthrough in the Federal Republic. One saw in him a completely new literary tone, influenced by both Nâzım Hikmet and Bertolt Brecht , between Orient and Occident: formally linked to the rhyming poems of Nazim Hikmet, in terms of content close to Brecht's exile literature. Like its successors, the poem, which also praises its sophisticated aesthetics, deals with labor migration from Turkey to Germany from different perspectives.

"The different motives for emigration, wishes, fears and integration problems of the Turkish immigrants are documented in a multifaceted way and their biographies (...) combined with those of their German neighbors to form a little cosm" (New Handbook of German Contemporary Literature since 1945, Herbig 1990, updated edition dtv February 1993 )

The book was made into a film for television. In addition, a documentary SFB film about Turks in Kreuzberg in 1976 was named after the book. Later, the composer Tayfun Erdem created a “multimedia image-sound epic” (1987).

filming

"Ms. Kutzer and other residents of Naunynstrasse", SFB Sender Freies Berlin , October 1, 1973, director: Friedrich Zimmermann, with: Dorthea Thiess, Tuncel Kurtiz, Krikor Melikyan, Güner Yüreklik u. a., Source: Der Tagesspiegel September 30, 1973 (according to the press release of the SFB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidrun Suhr: Ausländerliteratur: Minority Literature in the Federal Republic of Germany New German Critique, No. 46, Special Issue on Minorities in German Culture, Winter 1989, pp. 71-103.
  2. ↑ Burkhard Schröder: Myth Kreuzberg I: The uncanny place, May 2, 2003
  3. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, June 30, 1987, cf. [1]