Yusuf Yeşilöz

Yusuf Yeşilöz (* 1964 in Gölyazi , Cihanbeyli , Konya , Turkey ) is a German-speaking author of books and films from Turkey with Swiss citizenship and Kurdish ethnicity .

Career

Yusuf Yeşilöz, born in a Kurdish village in Central Anatolia, came to Switzerland in 1987, where he received his citizenship in 1995. He writes novels , short stories but also autobiographical works such as B. Steppenrutenpflanze (2000) about his “Kurdish childhood” or In front of Metris there is a high maple tree (1998), which describes the impressions of the “political prisoner” Yeşilöz “from Turkey”.

The author and translator also works as a filmmaker. At the International Film Festival Innsbruck 2006 Yesilöz was awarded the Christian Berger Prize for Best Documentary Film for Between the Worlds (2006) . His German, Turkish and Kurdish-language film Hungern gegen Walls (2004), for which the author was responsible for the script as well as the direction and production , had already received some attention.

Works

• The wishing plane , Roman. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85791-848-3
• Soraja , Roman. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-734-9
• Banking secrecy kebab , column collection. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85791-687-8
• Wedding flight , novel. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85791-622-9
• Against the tide , Roman. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-559-8
• Song from afar , novel. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85791-519-2
• The Imam and the Donkey , Roman. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-85869-270-2
• The guest from the stovepipe . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-85869-230-6
• Steppe switch plant , novella. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-85869-192-7
• In front of Metris is a tall maple , experience report. Unrast, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-928300-91-9
• Journey into the Dusk , novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-85869-142-2

Movies

• The Will to Help Shape - Migrants in Politics, Documentary 2015, SRF
• Der Kebab King , Documentary 2013, SRF, 3sat
• We actually wanted to return - age and migration , documentary film 2012, SRF, 3sat, TSR
• Our foreign neighbors - Muslims in Switzerland , documentary, 2009, SF, 3sat
• Sulukule in Istanbul , documentary, 2008, 3sat
• Musikliebe , documentary, 2008, SF, 3sat
• Between the worlds , documentary, 2006, SF, 3sat, TSR
• Starving Against Walls , documentary, 2004, SF, 3sat, ZDF

Awards

• 2001 Prix Lipps
• 2002 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
• 2006 Christian Berger Prize
• 2007 Prize from the Winterthur Cultural Foundation
• 2013 recognition award from the canton of Zurich for the book kebab on banking secrecy

See also

• List of German-Turkish writers
• German-Turkish literature

Web links

• Author's website
• Publications by and about Yusuf Yeşilöz in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Yusuf Yeşilöz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Yusuf Yesilöz in the Internet Movie Database (English)