Yücel Sivri

Yücel Sivri (* 1961 in İzmit , Turkey ) is a Turkish German studies scholar , historian , writer and translator .

Life

Sivri came to West Berlin with his parents when he was eight . Since then he has lived in Berlin , only interrupted by a boarding school in Istanbul , during which he also graduated from high school. From 1981 to 1986 Sivri was a student of mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin . However, he emerged with literary translations and work for bilingual literary magazines (e.g. Parantez , Köz , Ekinti , Gezgin ). In the 1990s he also wrote for the avant-garde literary magazine Şiiratı, which appears in Istanbul . In Germany he published his first independent Turkish-language poetry book in 1985: Saatçi Parmakları Vardır Hazzın . Later he also had publications in Turkey. From 1997 to 2002 he studied German studies (focus: modern German philology) and history (focus: Greco-Roman antiquity) at the same university. Yücel Sivri received his PhD from 2008 at the TU Berlin. In addition to German, English and Turkish, he is familiar with some old languages, including a. Latin and ancient Greek. Sivri worked in the Turkish editorial team of the former Radio Multikulti as well as in the German-Turkish editorial team of the German Press Agency (DPA). Yücel Sivri writes for various magazines, newspapers and online editorial offices. Sivri was also an employee of the Hanover -based culture and society magazine Freitext .

As part of the bilingual III. Realized between the Alice Salomon University Berlin (ASH) and the Center for European Studies at Akdeniz University Antalya (AKVAM) . Forum German-Turkish Scientific Cooperation 2014 with a focus on “Diversity in Society, Health and Education”, he worked as a coordinator, interpreter and translator. In another bilateral project, he organized workshops on bilingual early childhood education in Antalya and Berlin in 2014 and 2015, and participated in the drafting of a curricular module corpus for a German-Turkish course for bilingual early education. Yücel Sivri has with the subject of studies on Central German oriental literature of the late 12th and early 13th centuries using the example of the verses Count Rudolf and Duke Ernst . A contribution to intercultural debates in the High Middle Ages , doctorate in May 2015. Sivri also writes articles and reviews on German and historical studies, including a. for the magazine for German antiquity and German literature (ZfdA) and literaturkritik.de .

Fonts (selection)

Independent works

Saatçi Parmakları Vardır Hazzın , Yabanel Yayınları , Berlin 1985
Düşdökümü , Belge Yayınları , Istanbul 1992
Bunker'den , Şiiratı Yayınları , Istanbul 1994
Middle German oriental literature of the 12th and 13th centuries. Count Rudolf and Duke Ernst. A contribution to intercultural debates in the High Middle Ages , in: Culture, Science, Literature, Volume 28. Peter Lang Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2016.
The transcontinental perception of the foreign and the Christian image of the Turks. A literary-historical study of late antique and medieval sources , in: Cultural history contributions to the Middle Ages and early modern times, Volume 8, Peter Lang Verlag , Berlin2018.

Independent works reviewed

Middle German oriental literature of the 12th and 13th centuries. Count Rudolf and Duke Ernst:

Reviewed by Salama, Dina Aboul Fotouh H., in: JIG - Yearbook for International German Studies, vol. 51, 1 (2019), pp. 241-247.
Reviewed by Ralf G. Päsler, in: ZfdA - Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature, vol. 149, 2 (2020), pp. 273-274.

Translations

Enis Batur, Sarnic (cistern) , Berlin 1990.
Enis Batur, Kandil (Kandela) , Berlin 1992.
Murathan Mungan, Metal (Metal) , Berlin 1994.
Lale Müldür, Kuzey Defteri (Nordbuch) , Berlin, 1995.
90 Dakikada Hegel (biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) , Istanbul 1997
90 Dakikada Konfüçyus (Biography of Confucius) , Istanbul 1998.
Seçme Eserler (From the collected work of Gottfried Benn) , unpublished
Dışavurumcu Savaş Şiirleri Antolojisi (Expressionist War Poems) , unpublished
Theda Borde; Erol Esen (ed.): Germany and Turkey, Diversity in Society, Health and Education, Volume III . Ankara 2015.
Theda Borde; Erol Esen (Yay.): Türkiye ve Almanya. Toplum, Sağlık ve Eğitimde Çeşitlilik, Vol. IV . Ankara 2015.
Desiderius Erasmus: Deliliğe Övgü (Encomium Moriae). İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Hasan Ali Yücel Dizisi, İstanbul 2016.

Reviews

Hans-Werner Goetz: The Christian-Occidental Perception of Other Religions in the Early and High Middle Ages. Methodical and comparative aspects , (Wolfgang Stammler visiting professor for Germanic Philology. Lectures 23), Berlin / Boston 2013. Review. Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 143, 4 (2014), pp. 502–506.
Paul M. Cobb: The fight for paradise. An Islamic History of the Crusades. Translated from the English by Michael Sailer, Darmstadt 2015. Review by Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 144, 4 (2015), pp. 521-526.
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades . Translated from English v. Tobias Gabel u. Hannes Möhring, Darmstadt 2015. Review by Yücel Sivri, in: Literaturkritik, No. 2, February 2017.
Hermann Kulke: The European Middle Ages - a Eurasian Middle Ages? (The medieval millennium 3) , Berlin / Boston 2016. Review by Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 146,3 (2017), pp. 384–388.
Niels Brandt: Good knights, bad pagans. The image of the Turks on the Crusades (1095–1291) , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2016. Review by Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 149, 2 (2020), pp. 240–248.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ZfdA --- Contents / Preview Vol. 149 (2020). Retrieved July 5, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sivri, Yücel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish journalist, poet writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	İzmit , Turkey

[1] ZfdA --- Contents / Preview Vol. 149 (2020). Retrieved July 5, 2020 .