Emine Sevgi Özdamar

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

Özdamar was born in Malatya, Turkey in 1946. She is a writer, actress and director and has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine. She also found inspiration in the works of Berthold Brecht, especially from an album of his songs which she had bought in the 60's in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides. [Özdamar, Emine Segi. "Der Hof im Speigel: Erzählungen (Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, 2001)]

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)

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).
*Der Hof im Spiegel (Short Stories, 2001, ISBN 3462030019).
*Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde. (Novel, 2003, ISBN 3462032127).

External links

*imdb|0644356

References