Authority control databases
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
Kemal Kurt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 October 1947 Çorlu, Turkey |
| Died | 21 October 2002 (aged 54) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Author, translator and photographer |
Kemal Kurt (29 October 1947 in Çorlu, Turkey – 21 October 2002 in Berlin, Germany) was an author, translator and photographer.
Kemal Kurt has written short stories, novels, poetry, essays, features, children's books, radio plays, TV-filmscripts for children and published photography.
The heart of his work was the writing and not least the telling for children, primarily in broadcasting, in particular for multiple ARD-channels simultaneously transferred "Ohrenbär"-series of the SFB.
For adults, he wrote poetry, essays, short stories and satirical novels. Attention is here Was ist die Mehrzahl von Heimat? (1995), a pointed reflection of his ambivalent relationship with a Turkish origin and the German way of life as well as his satirical novel Ja, sagt Molly (1998), in which he settles with the most brilliant of Literature. For many years the books of Kemal Kurt are also part of the curriculum of several American universities.[1]
That left behind photo archive of Kemal Kurt includes 20000 images. Still by himself as a traveling exhibition of photos and poems conceived, menschen.orte is thanks to his estate managers inner part of current presentations.[2]
In 1999 he had a fellowship at the Villa Aurora[3] (exile home of Lion Feuchtwanger) in Pacific Palisades, CA, in 2000 at the international writers' retreats Hawthornden Castle at Edinburgh and "Waves of Three Seas" at Rhodes, 2001 at Centrum for Arts & Creative Education in Port Townsend, WA. In 1991 and 2000 he had grants from the foundation Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung Berlin for children's fiction. "Wenn der Meddah kommt" was listed among the three best German children's books in the spring of 1996 by WDR, Radio Bremen and Saarländischer Rundfunk and "The five Fingers and the Moon" was chosen the Best Picture Book of the month December 1997 by the German Academy for Children's Books.
Kurt was of Turkish Bulgarian origin.[4]
