Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in Solingen, Germany)[1] is an award-winning German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.
Özlem Özgül Dündar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) Solingen, Germany |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | German |
| Genre | screenplays |
| Notable works | Turks, Fire |
Personal Life
Dündar was born in Solingen, Germany. She attended the University of Wuppertal and studied philosophy and literature there. After traveling to Ireland, where she completed a semester abroad,[2] Turkey, and Paris, she worked with several artists collectives,[3] among other Kanack Attak Leipzig, Kaltsignal, GID, and the Ministry for Compassion.[4]
She moved to Leipzig in 2015 to attend the German Institute for Literature, where she experienced a lot of racially motivated attacks on refugee homes, which ultimately inspired her to write her debut screenplay.[5]
Career
Dündar writes poetry, prose, essays, and translates from Turkish.[6][3]
Her screenplay and audio drama Turks, Fire, tells the story of the 1993 Solingen arson attack on a Turkish home in which five people were killed. She originally wrote it as a project for her third year in university. Dündar was ten when the attack took place and originally set out to write a screenplay because she wanted the characters to be physically present.[7]
The screenplay was adapted into a novel published in 2021.[5]
Her poetry collection gedanken, zerren was published by ELIF Verlag in 2018[8] and she co-published the anthology Flexen – Flâneusen * schreiben Städte, published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2019.[9]
Stipends, Awards, and Prizes
- 2010: Düsseldorf Förderpreis[4]
- 2011: Merck Stipend in Darmstadt[4]
- 2014: Goethe Institute Turkish German translation project stipend in Istanbul[4]
- 2015: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize[10]
- 2015: Retzhof Drama Prize[11]
- 2017: Work stipend of North Rhine-Westphalia[4]
- 2018: Kelag-Preis Award at the Ingeborg-Bachmann contest in Klagenfurt for an excerpt of Turks, Fire[4]
- 2018: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann stipend from the city of Cologne[6]
- 2019: Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize[4]
- 2020: Audio drama of the year honor for the audia drama adaptation of Turks, Fire[6]
- 2021: Casa Baldi stipend[9]
References
- ↑ "Landtag NRW: 2305_LesungSolingen". www.landtag.nrw.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Özlem Özgül Dündar | Poetenladen | Zur Person". www.poetenladen.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 1 2 "Özlem Özgül Dündar". www1.wdr.de (in German). 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Özlem Özgül Dündar". www.uni-due.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 1 2 deutschlandfunkkultur.de. "Özlem Özgül Dündar über ihr Romanprojekt "türken, feuer" - Schreiben nach einem rassistischen Anschlag". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 1 2 3 "Özlem Özgül Dündar | NRW KULTURsekretariat". NRWKultur Sekretariat (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "türken, feuer". Theaterverlage (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Özlem Özgül Dündar – Verbrecher Verlag" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 1 2 "Villa Massimo | Özlem Özgül Dündar". villamassimo.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Literarischer März". web.archive.org. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "derStandard.at". www.derstandard.at. Retrieved 2023-12-08.