Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born August 10, 1946, in Malatya, Turkey), is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.

Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides.

Awards

• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (1991)
• Walter-Hasenclever-Preis (1993)
• New-York Scholarship des Literaturfonds Darmstadt (1995)
• Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis (1999)
• Künstlerinnenpreis des Landes NRW (2001)
• Stadtschreiberin von Bergen-Enkheim (2003)
• Kleist Prize (2004)
• Fontane-Preis (2009)
• Carl Zuckmayer Medal (2010)

Works

• Karagöz in Alamania, (play, 1982)
• Mutterzunge, (short stories, 1990, ISBN 3880221065)
• Keleoğlan in Alamania, (play, 1991)
• Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei hat zwei Türen aus einer kam ich rein aus der anderen ging ich raus, (novel, 1992, ISBN 3462023195)
• Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn, (novel, 1998, ISBN 3763248021), engl. The Bridge of the Golden Horn, publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2009, ISBN 1852429321
• Der Hof im Spiegel, (short stories, 2001, ISBN 3462030019)
• Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde, (novel, 2003, ISBN 3462032127)

External links

• Emine Sevgi Özdamar at the Internet Movie Database

Further reading

• Adelson, Leslie A. The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.