Yüksel Pazarkaya
Yüksel Pazarkaya (born February 24, 1940 in İzmir , Turkey ) is a writer and translator. Pazarkaya is a German citizen and a member of the Turkish and German PEN centers .
Life
After finishing school in Turkey, he moved to Germany in 1958 . After graduating as a chemist in Stuttgart , he began studying German and philosophy and received his doctorate in literature in 1973 . Since then he has been working as a writer. Before that, he was the first ever to initiate German-Turkish theater work in 1961, initially in the Stuttgart studio stage , which he co-founded , and later by founding the first Turkish amateur theater group in Germany. From 1986 he worked as a radio editor at WDR in Cologne .
He has translated works by Orhan Veli , Nâzım Hikmet and Aziz Nesin , among others . In his own writings he also, but not exclusively, deals with the situation of migrant workers and, in particular, discrimination. His extensive output also includes poetry, prose, literature for children and a television series ( Our Neighbors, The Baltas , 1983). As early as 1979, one of his texts was used in Hans A. Guttner's documentary film Almanya Almanya - Germania Germania .
In 2000 he held the Chamisso poetics lectureship at the Technical University of Dresden .
The literary scholar has been working on Gero von Wilpert's Lexicon of World Literature since the second edition . Pazarkaya has also been active in publishing since 2005.
Prizes and awards
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (December 18, 1986)
- 1989 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
- 1991 Orhan Asena Prize
- 199? Salihli Prize
- 1994 Children's Book Prize from the Bremen Senate
- 2001 Chamisso poetry lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden
- 2005 Special award when the Haldun-Taner-Prize was awarded
theatre
- 2010 40 yildile kolay or 40 years - easily put , Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main, director: Ömer Simsek
Works
- Utku or The Strongest Man in the World. Bilingual , Munich and Vienna 1974.
- Home away from home? Three short stories , Berlin 1979.
- Roses in the frost . Insights into Turkish culture. Zurich, 1982.
- I want to write joys. Two cycles of poetry . Schifferhude, 1983.
- Traces of bread. On the situation of foreign workers , 1983, ISBN 3293000673 .
- The waters are wiser than we are. Turkish poetry of the present . 1987, ISBN 3795109655 .
- The Babylon bus. Poems . Frankfurt am Main, 1989.
- Me and the rose . 2002, ISBN 3434530991 .
- Odyssey without arrival . 2004, ISBN 3933592585 .
Most of Yüksel Pazarkaya's works were illustrated by Mehmet Guler .
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Yüksel Pazarkaya in the catalog of the German National Library
- Recording of the literary evening with Dr. Yüksel Pazarkaya (pdf), German Consulate General on April 19, 2005, Ed. Reiner Möckelmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://guttner.de/index.php/filme/alamanya-alamanya.html
- ^ Robert Bosch Foundation: Yüksel Pazarkaya
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pazarkaya, Yüksel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | İzmir |