Zafer Şenocak

Zafer Şenocak, 2008

Zafer Şenocak (born May 25, 1961 in Ankara , Turkey ) is a writer of Turkish origin living in Germany.

Life

Zafer Şenocak was born in Turkey and is the son of a publicist and a teacher. He spent his first years in Ankara and Istanbul . In 1970 the family moved to Munich . There he attended a grammar school and passed his matriculation examination in 1981 . Then studied it German , political science and philosophy in Munich. He has lived in Berlin since 1989 , interrupted by frequent stays abroad as writer in residence at universities and the like. a. in France , Canada and the United States .

As early as the late 1970s, Şenocak went public with reading evenings with his own poems in German. In the 1980s he began to translate Turkish authors into German, but also published his own volumes of poetry, often with poems such as Doppelmann (1985) that themed “Life in Two Worlds” . From 1988 he was co-editor of the multilingual literary magazine "Sirene" and made important theoretical contributions to German-Turkish literature in the 1990s. The works of the Berlin tetralogy are among his most famous prose publications. In addition to his narrative, which focuses on the Orient - Occident , Şenocak also publishes essays on intercultural issues in the taz and the world with provocative headlines such as "Terror comes from the heart of Islam". The multiple award-winning author was also at times the moderator of a talk show at Sender Freie Berlin .

Şenocak received a. a. In 1984 a literary scholarship from the city of Munich and in 1988 a residency scholarship from the Berlin Senate and the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize . His poems have been translated into English and Czech. Fictional prose, novels and essays by the author have appeared in Turkey, the USA, France, Spain and Italy.

The composer Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau used Şenocak's poem also on the fence for the concert cycle From the black earth of this world (1992) consisting of 17 pieces of music for 2 recorders, chitarrone, viola da gamba and harpsichord and 16 texts about exile.

Works

• Electric blue. Poems . Munich 1983, ISBN 3-923746-11-3 .
• Selling morning moods at the market. Poems . Munich 1983, ISBN 3-9800423-3-2 .
• Flame drops . Dağyeli-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1985, ISBN 3-924320-25-X .
• Ritual of youth . Dağyeli-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1987, ISBN 3-924320-60-8 .
• The vertical sea: poems . Babel-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928551-03-5 .
• Atlas of Tropical Germany . Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-928551-10-8 .
• Fernwehanstalten: Poems . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-928551-13-2 .
• Was Hitler Arab? . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-928551-14-0 .
• The man in the undershirt . Babel-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-928551-10-8 .
• The prairie . Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88022-641-5 .
• Dangerous relatives . Babel-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-928551-28-0 .
• Nâzim Hikmet on the ship to Mars . Babel-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-928551-90-6 . (in cooperation with Berkan Karpat )
• The erottomane . Babel-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-928551-93-0 .
• Tongue removal . Babel-Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-928551-97-3 .
• Transition: Selected Poems 1980-2005 . Babel-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-928551-31-0 .
• The country behind the letters. Germany and Islam in transition . Babel-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-928551-33-7 .
• Alman Terbiyesi . Alef Yayınevi, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 978-9944-494-05-2 .
• Yolculuk Nereye . Alef Yayınevi, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 978-9944-494-13-7 .
• Köşk . Alef Yayınevi, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-9944-494-21-2 .
• Dünyanın İki Ucu. Alef Yayınevi, Istanbul 2011
• Being German. An educational pamphlet. Edition Körber Foundation , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89684-083-7 .
• "Divided mouth: Poems", Babel Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-928551-40-3
• "İlk Işık", Alef Yayınevi, Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-9944-494-84-7
• "In your words: Assumptions about my father's faith", Babel Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-928551-41-0

editor

• Heaven belongs to every word . Babel-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928551-00-0 (together with Deniz Göktürk )
• German Turks. Turk Almanlar . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-13426-8 (together with Claus Leggewie )
• The broken view to the west. Positions and perspectives of Turkish culture . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-928551-07-8 .

Translations

• Nuride Ateşi : hunter on the run from his prey. Berlin 2002.
• Yunus Emre : The grief wheel. Frankfurt (Main) 1986.
• Aras Ören : The watchmaker of loneliness. Berlin 1993. (translated together with Eva Hund)
• Aras Ören : A Belated Reckoning or The Rise of the Gündoğdus. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
• Fethi Savaşçı : Munich in the spring rain. Frankfurt (Main) 1987.

Awards (selection)

• Munich Year of Literature: Prize of the City of Munich 1984
• Adelbert von Chamisso Award 1988
• Scholarship from the Literary Colloquium, Berlin 1988
• Literature grant from the Berlin Senate in 1993
• Fellow of the Villa Aurora , Los Angeles in 1996
• Max Kade - Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997
• "Writer in residence" at Dartmouth College 1999
• "Writer in residence" at Oberlin College 2000
• Visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley 2003
• "Poet in residence" at the University of Duisburg-Essen 2007
• "writer in residence" at Washington University 2013
• "writer in residence" at Dickenson College 2013
• Prize of the Helga and Edzard Reuter Foundation 2014
• "writer in residence" at the University of Arizona 2015

Literature (selection)

• Tom Cheesman , Karin Yesilada : Zafer Şenocak (Contemporary German Writers) . University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2003, ISBN 0-7083-1810-X .
• Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel: From guest work to identity work. Integrity negotiations in Turkish-German texts by Senocak, Özdamar, Agaoglu and the online community vaybee! . Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-938616-18-0 .
• Dieter Borchmeyer : What is German? A nation's search for itself. Berlin 2017. pp. 239–243.

See also

• German-Turkish literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Zafer Şenocak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and questions about the person from April 14, 2019

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.foreigner.de/in_zafer_senocak.html
2. ↑ Zafer Şenocak: Terror comes from the heart of Islam. - in the world of December 29, 2007.
3. ↑ http://schmidt-mechau.de/D/komp/VonderschwarzenErde.htm