Yıldırım Dağyeli

Yıldırım Dağyeli (* 1942 ) is a German publisher and literary translator . He is the founder and former owner of Dağyeli Verlag in Berlin .

Life

Together with Helga Dağyeli-Bohne, the journalist translated numerous important works of Turkish literature into German, for example by Demir Özlü , Nazim Hikmet and Sait Faik, and wrote forewords and afterwords for publications. With Aras Ören and Fakir Baykurt , authors of German migration literature were also translated. The translator duo gained fame through the translation and editing of early memed volumes by Yaşar Kemal . Dağyeli founded his publishing house, which specializes in works by Turkish authors, in the early 1980s. It was initially based in Frankfurt am Main . It was here that Dağyeli founded, together with Ibrahim Halil Özak, in 1983 a bilingual quarterly “ Forum for foreigner issues and culture” , which was published until 1987. Today the Dağyeli-Verlag, which is now run by his daughter, is located in Berlin-Neukölln .

Bibliography (selection)

As a literary translator (together with Helga Dağyeli-Bohne)

• Nazim Hikmet
  • A journey without return (dtv 1993)
  • The most beautiful sea is the one that has not yet been navigated (1994)
  • The air is heavy as lead (dtv 1992)
  • Epic from the War of Liberation (2008)
• Yasar Kemal
  • The Ararat Legend (1997)
  • The Song of a Thousand Bulls (Unionsverlag 1980)
  • Memed, mein Falke (adapted from the last edition of the Turkish original from the 5th edition, Unionsverlag 1987)
  • Burn the thistles (Unionsverlag 1991)
  • The wind from the plain (Unionsverlag 1991)
• Sait Faik
  • A point on the map (1991)
• Fakir Baykurt
  • The ointment and other stories (Ortadogu 1988)
• Macaws Ören
  • In Between (1987)
  • The Wreck (1986)
  • Paradise Broken (1986)
  • Manege (1984)

As an author

• The tenses in Turkish and the conjugation of Turkish verbs (1987)

As editor

• Forum (magazine 1983–1987)
• Ibrahim Halil Özak: Turkey in Transition (1989)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yıldırım Dağyeli - in Union Publishing House
2. ↑ http://www.taz.de/4/reise/asien/tuerkei/artikelseite/1/aktuelle-einsichten