Dilek, Mayatürk

(c) Barış Özoğul

Dilek Mayatürk, born in Istanbul in 1986, studied sociology in her home city and in Klagenfurt. She has worked as a documentary filmmaker and author for various media. Her poetry collection “Cesaret Koleksiyonu” (Yeniinsan Verlag) was published in 2014, “Brache” (Hanser Berlin) in 2020 and “Bir Daha Yok Çiçeği” (Klaros Verlag) in 2021. Dilek Mayatürk’s bilingual literary work has been honoured with literary scholarships from the Berlin Senate of Culture (2022), Schloss Wiepersdorf (2024), Künstlerhaus Edenkoben (2022), Kulturakademie Tarabya (2023/2024) and Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung (2023). She also received the Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Honourable Mention (2010), the Gürhan Uçkan Poetry Award (2015) and third place in the Kemal Özer Poetry Awards (2021). She thinks, writes and translates poetry in two languages. She lives in Berlin.

Festival Content

VOCATIONS – OPEN SPACE

Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Kuppelhalle | 4/2 € Tickets

Vocations – open space 2024 will organise four evenings of radically open transdisciplinary experiments and collaborations at the interface between music, sound and poetry at silent green Kulturquartier’s event space Kuppelhalle (29.5. / 8.7. / 9.10. / 3.12.). As a meeting place for Berlin’s contemporary poetry and music scenes, Vocations offers an open space to up to twenty artists to perform at any one time, combining a wide variety of musical and vocal practices based on or rooted in poetry.

Abdulla-zadè, Ramina • Brand, Ulrike • Dunajcsik, Mátyás • Feizabadi, Amen • Hansen, Jannes • Holland, Tim • Keskinkılıç, Ozan Zakariya • Lin-Siedler, Lixue • Macken, Josephine • Dilek, Mayatürk • Oleschinski, Brigitte • Opitz, Birte • Saul, Fabian • Seither, Charlotte • Tóth, Kinga