Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in Solingen, Germany)[1] is a German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.
| Birth Place: | Solingen, Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | screenplays |
| Notableworks: | Turks, Fire |
| Occupation: | novelist |
Dündar was born in Solingen, Germany. She attended the University of Wuppertal and studied philosophy and literature there. After traveling to Ireland, where she completed a semester abroad,[2] Turkey, and Paris, she worked with several artists collectives,[3] among other Kanack Attak Leipzig, Kaltsignal, GID, and the Ministry for Compassion.[4]
She moved to Leipzig in 2015 to attend the German Institute for Literature, where she experienced a lot of racially motivated attacks on refugee homes, which ultimately inspired her to write her debut screenplay.[5]
Dündar writes poetry, prose, essays, and translates from Turkish.[6]
Her screenplay and audio drama Turks, Fire, tells the story of the 1993 Solingen arson attack on a Turkish home in which five people were killed. She originally wrote it as a project for her third year in university. Dündar was ten when the attack took place and originally set out to write a screenplay because she wanted the characters to be physically present.[7]
The screenplay was adapted into a novel published in 2021.
Her poetry collection gedanken, zerren was published by ELIF Verlag in 2018[8] and she co-published the anthology Flexen – Flâneusen * schreiben Städte, published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2019.[9]