Canan Topçu

Canan Topçu (* 1965 in Bursa, Turkey) is a German journalist and author of Turkish origin.

Life and work

Topçu lives in Germany since 1973. After finishing high school in Hanover, she completed a master's degree in literature and history at the University of Hannover. After a traineeship at the Hannover Allgemeine Zeitung was from 1999 to 2012 worked as an editor at the Frankfurter Rundschau.

She writes since 2012 as a freelance journalist for print and online media. Texts of Topçu appeared among others in time and in the mirror Special Islam. Main topics of their journalistic work are migration and integration, while it is particularly concerned with the situation of Muslim and Turkish migrants in Germany.

Since 2004 she is a lecturer at the University of Darmstadt in the Department of Media.

Published in 2007 Topçu their " reading book on the German - Will " under the title of naturalization, the lot of positive feedback was the audience, in the arts pages and in literary criticism and public debate on the situation of migrants in Germany fertilized and promoted. She studies the feelings and experiences of "foreigners " in Germany, while reflecting their own experiences with their "Turkish- being" and takes a critical look with the restrictive naturalization situation in Germany. Even before she was on book publications with related topics, eg What do you live? (2005), have been involved.

In an article in TIME is Topçu spoke in November 2013, a replica of the Dortmunder journalism professor Horst Pöttker fundamental reasons for this, not to mention in reporting the ethnicity of offenders, as envisaged by the Directive 12.1 of the Press Code, provided that this information " no explanation for the fact " deliver " reckless reporting " could " lead to the stigmatization of certain groups."

Book publications

• May Ayim, Canan Topçu (ed. ): ... from within the language. Boarding. Culture work, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-910069-56-8.
• Canan Topçu: naturalization. Reading book on the German - becoming. Portraits, Interviews, Facts. 1st edition, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86099-726-0.