Yücel Feyzioğlu

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Yücel Feyzioğlu (born December 10, 1946 in Kars , Turkey ) is a German-Turkish children's book author who has lived and worked in Herten in North Rhine-Westphalia since the early 1970s .

Life

The trained pedagogue initially worked as a teacher in Turkey. As such, he was a co-founder of the Turkish teachers' union TÖS. During the time of the military dictatorship , he was sentenced to six years imprisonment for this and for the publication of some short stories as Die Verlassenen , after which Feyzioğlu fled to Germany in 1972. Here he continued to work in his profession. From 1985, however, he was able to make writing his main occupation and gave up teaching. Feyzioğlu is a member of the Association of German Writers and writes satires, but above all highly acclaimed children's books.

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In his texts, Feyzioğlu transposes figures and motifs from the Turkish fairy tale tradition into the present, and in this way also emphatically addresses the problem areas of migration and integration for a young reading audience. His stories can often be described as modern Nasreddin - Hoca stories .

In her role as Minister for Schools, Youth and Children of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ute Schäfer recommended bilingual author readings of his books for all primary schools in the state.

In the meantime, only in 1992 Feyzioğlu's entry ban to Turkey was lifted, Feyzioğlu is also a recognized author in his old homeland, has received literary prizes (including the fairy tale prize of the Turkish children's book authors' union in Ankara ) and numerous benevolent reviews , as in Germany .

Bibliography (German selection)

  • The Magic Apple (2005)
  • The magic lemon (2000)
  • Watschel and Trippel and Other Fairy Tales (1992)
  • Keloglan in Germany (1992)
  • Keloglan and other fairy tales from Anatolia (2008)
  • Murkumomo and other fairy tales from Uzbekistan (2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Feyzioğlu, Yücel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish children's author and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kars , Turkey