Ceyda Nurtsch: Jeder Atemzug ein Fest

In the organizer's words:

A social struggle is raging in Turkey that is also affecting people of Turkish origin living in Germany. Deep rifts separate the various social groups from one another: nationalist Kemalists, the former AKP base of Erdogan's party, feminists, Kurds, Alevis, Jews, Greeks, Armenians. They have all created their own coexisting realities, live in their own neighborhoods, send their children to different schools. At the same time, there are people who are tired of this struggle. People who want their pluralistic society to shine, who reject the historical narrative dictated from above by the state and who believe in a social order based on solidarity. This book gives them a voice.

Ceyda Nurtsch

After studying Islamic Studies, Politics and Philosophy in Cologne and Bonn, Ceyda Nurtsch completed her doctorate on the subject of Turkish urban poetry and qualified as a trimedial editor at Deutsche Welle. She currently works as a freelance journalist for Qantara, Deutschlandfunk and ZDF, among others, focusing on Turkey and migration.

In cooperation with Stimmen der Solidarität - Mahnwache Köln e.V., Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Deutsch-Türkische Gesellschaft in der Auslandsgesellschaft e.V. and literaturhaus.dortmund