External links
- Kemal Kurt in the German National Library catalogue
- Archive of Kemal Kurt
- buechernachlese.de Reviews and tributes to Kemal Kurt from Ulrich Karger
Kemal Kurt | |
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| Born | 29 October 1947 Çorlu, Turkey |
| Died | 21 October 2002 (aged 54) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupations | Author, translator and photographer |
Kemal Kurt (29 October 1947 – 21 October 2002) was an author, translator and photographer.
Kemal Kurt has written:
The heart of his work was the writing and the storytelling for children, primarily in broadcasting, in particular for multiple ARD-channels simultaneously transferred "Ohrenbär"-series of the SFB.
For adults, he wrote:
Was ist die Mehrzahl von Heimat? (1995), is a pointed reflection of his ambivalent relationship with a Turkish origin and the German way of life with 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 have also been part of the curriculum of several American universities.
That left behind a photo archive of Kemal Kurt including 20.000 images. A traveling exhibition of photos and poems he conceived, menschen.orte was put up thanks to his estate managers' part of current presentations.
In 1999 he had a friendship at the Villa Aurora (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 support 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.
Kemal Kurt'la ortak bir yanımız vardı: İkimiz de Balkan insanıydık. Ben Makedonya, o da Bulgaristan kökenliydi. Ancak onun ailesi epey önce gelmiş ve Çorlu'ya yerleşmişlerdi. Kemal Kurt ta, yukarıda belirttiğim gibi, Çorlu'da doğmuştu. Ara sıra buluştuk mu, birbirimize ‚hemşerim' diye hitap ederdik.
