Zehra Çırak
Zehra Çırak (* 1960 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a German poet of Turkish descent.
Life
Çırak came to Germany at the age of three and has lived in Berlin since 1982. After first publications in anthologies and magazines, Flugfänger , the first volume of poetry , appeared in 1987 . In 1993 Çırak was awarded the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis der Stadt Bad Homburg and in 2001 the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis , whose sponsorship award she had already received in 1989.
Çırak deals in her lyrical work with general human-existential and private breaks and transitions, with love poems and poetological-language-critical poems forming a focus. Many of the poems arose from the joint collaboration with the object artist Jürgen Walter, with whom she also performed jointly at home and abroad. Reception and criticism see Çırak's work in close connection with German-language intercultural literature . With the poem Foreign Wings on Your Own Shoulder , Çırak is represented in Harald Hartung 's anthology Century Memory - German Poetry in the Twentieth Century .
Works (selection)
- Flugfänger , Gedichte, Edition artinform, 1988. ISBN 8525494941
- Bird on the back of an elephant , poems, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1991. ISBN 3462021176
- Foreign wings on your own shoulder , poems, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3462023314
- Physical exercises , poems, Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3462028804
- In motion , poems and prose miniatures Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2008. ISBN 3899302109
- The smell of happiness , stories, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2011. ISBN 3899302818
- The art of science , poetry, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2012. ISBN 9783899303766
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Zehra Çırak in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zehra Cirak in the collection of articles in the Innsbruck newspaper archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Zehra Çırak (TR). Schamrock - Festival of Female Poets, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved October 24, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Çırak, Zehra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul , Turkey |