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Özlem Özgül Dündar

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Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in Solingen, Germany)[1] is a German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.

Özlem Özgül Dündar
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Solingen, Germany
Occupationnovelist
LanguageGerman
Genrescreenplays
Notable worksTurks, Fire

Personal life

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Landtag NRW: 2305_LesungSolingen". www.landtag.nrw.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  2. ^ "Özlem Özgül Dündar | Poetenladen | Zur Person". www.poetenladen.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  3. ^ a b "Özlem Özgül Dündar". www1.wdr.de (in German). 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Özlem Özgül Dündar". www.uni-due.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  5. ^ a b deutschlandfunkkultur.de. "Özlem Özgül Dündar über ihr Romanprojekt "türken, feuer" - Schreiben nach einem rassistischen Anschlag". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  6. ^ a b c "Özlem Özgül Dündar | NRW KULTURsekretariat". NRWKultur Sekretariat (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  7. ^ "türken, feuer". Theaterverlage (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  8. ^ "Özlem Özgül Dündar – Verbrecher Verlag" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  9. ^ a b "Villa Massimo | Özlem Özgül Dündar". villamassimo.de. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  10. ^ "Literarischer März". 2015-04-02. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  11. ^ "derStandard.at". www.derstandard.at. Retrieved 2023-12-08.