OÄŸuz Tansel
Oğuz Tansel (* 1915 in Meyre / Bozkır / Konya in Central Anatolia, † October 30, 1994 in Ankara) is a Turkish fairy-tale and poet.
- 2.1 fairytale
- 2.2 style
- 2.3 poems
- 3.1 fairytale
- 3.2 poems
Life
Training
The Turkish fairy tale collector and writer, was born in the high-altitude village Meyre on the northern slopes of the Taurus Mountains. The elementary school he attended in Bozkır / Konya, the middle school in Istanbul. The first class of the high school he graduated from in Konya. There, who later became internationally known folklorist med Naili Boratav was his teacher who sparked his ethnographic interest. Also, the literary scholar and mystic Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı taught him. Tansel then returned to Istanbul and finished his upper secondary education in Pertevniyal Lisesi. Here he was a student of Turkish studies Nurullah Ataç and the poet Sabahattin Eyuboglu. He studied at the Faculty of Istanbul University (1935-1939) gave him the opportunity, major Turcologists as Kilisli Rifat, Resit Rahmeti Arat, Ragıp Hulusi Özden, the German Helmuth Ritter and get to know Ali Nihat Tarlan and to be trained by them.
Among his fellow students were the famous writers Behçet Necatigil, Cahit Külebi, Zeki Ömer Defne, Ahmet Ates and Fikret Ates. Also Kalbiye Tansel, his wife, was his fellow student. She has worked as Turkish and literature teacher in Konya.
Profession
Tansel his military service in 1941 in Orkof / Ağrı / Eastern Anatolia. He then began his teaching profession in Çiftçiler Köy Enstitüsü; later he was sent to Amasya. Here he sought in the villages by storytellers. In the village Ziyere he met the old woman Emine Nine ( Ziyereli Emine Emine Nine = Uyaroğlu ) know who came to his home. He made tea in the samovar and thus staged a narrative medium. Ziyereli Emine Nine smoked a lot during the narration. Tansel drew the narratives in Arabic script. In addition to this " fairy godmother " learned Tansel at the same place also know a fairy tale - Scale Dülger, who played the Turkish folk instrument saz and knew how to tell many folk tales. From Amasya from Tansel went to Konya, where he continued to drive his teaching profession at a middle school. He was a highly respected teacher and participated in the collection of travel med Naili Boratav. In Konya, he organized artistic events. At the same time it was a difficult time in his life, because he was politically undesirable because of its socialist ideology.
Character
Tansel died on October 30, 1994 in Ankara. He was a fun-loving, helpful for all person. With the following quote he is aptly characterizes: "Many fish swimming happily in the sea and played. Suddenly a flight Hecht moved among them, beat his wings and flew out of the water, to get some fresh air. All his life he had been opposed to living in the water. Deep in his heart he had a desire to overcome his fate, free to catch some air and to be a bird. Just for a moment, as long as he could stand it. That was enough for him. This moment that passed like a flash so fast was for him an infinity " ( Nikos Kazantzakis: ". . Greco'ya El Mektuplar " [ accountable before El Greco ], 1975, p 518f ) Poets and collectors of fairy tales Tansel lived like a fish that flew out of the water, to get some fresh air and try to overcome its limitations.
Work
Fairy tale
In the records Tansels you can also find fairy tales he heard in his childhood by his mother and women from the area. He had a good memory, these tales wrote many years later. Collection of fairy tales took place at present under other conditions than today. In the 1940s you had in Turkey, no tape recorder, the fairytale therefore had to write down immediately or keep in memory. And but it was important, " the tongue of the informants to solve " and to get them to tell. Tansel to win the full confidence of informants, so that they told him without hesitation and without compromising their fairytale succeeded. As he told fairy tales themselves, he encouraged his people to be responsible and prevented so that a large fairytale treasure was lost. "Fairy aunties " and " storyteller " have a good memory; they tell the tales that they heard from others who keep telling where they always enrich with new designs. So they bring - according to the possibilities of their imagination - their own desires and problems expressed. It is the fact that the popular tale tradition is based on a creative storytelling.
Style
The merit Tansels is to have the collected fairy tales, played by his own sense of language and style. He used it the pure Turkish and edited the tale in his mind and feeling. In this sense it could be located as a storyteller in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. Tansel published his first book of fairy tales " Alti Kardeşler " (Eng. The six brothers ) in 1959, it was followed by other books: 1962 " Yedi Devler " (Eng. The seven giants ), 1963 " Üç Kızlar " (Eng. The three girls ), 1966 " Mavi Gelin " (Eng. The blue Bride ), 1976 " Al'lı ile Fırfırı " (Eng. The swindler and Falbel ) on. For " Al'lı ile Fırfırı " he was awarded the 1977 Children's Literature Prize of the Turkish Türk Dil Kurumu Language Association ( Çocuk Yazını Ödülü ). In 1985 he published his tale in two volumes: " Konuşan Balıkla Yalniz Kız " (Eng. The talking fish and the lonely girl ) and " Çobanla Bey Kizi " (Eng. The shepherd and the prince's daughter ). Tansels first poems with folk motifs and stylistic figures published in 1937 in the magazine Servet -i Fünun and Varlik. In this lyrical seals itself expressed his sensibility, and he reached next social problems including issues such as love, brotherhood, freedom, peace and equality. What moves his heart, he transferred with longing and anger in his poems. For his style, the simplicity of expression is determinative.
Poetry
Tansels first volume of poetry Savrulmayı bekleyen Harman (Eng. The grain, which is waiting for winnowing ) came out in 1953, the second " gözünü Sevdiğim " (Eng. Let me kiss you! ) 1962. 1960 contributed Oğuz Tansel and Metin Eloğlu the Bektashi jokes ( Bektashi also means a popular joke character) into a poem in 1970, under the title " Bektashi Dedikleri " (Eng. Wen called Bektashi ) were published. Tansels last poems he still himself prepared for printing were published five years after his death in 1999, " Dagi Öpmeler " (Eng. Den Berg kiss ).
Publications (selection )
Tansel published numerous works.
Fairy tale
- Altı Kardeşler, (Eng. The six brothers ), 1959
- Yedi Devler, (Eng. The seven giants ), 1962
- Üç Kızlar, (Eng. The three girls ), 1963
- Mavi Gelin, (Eng. The Blue Bride ), 1966
- Al'lı ile Fırfırı, (Eng. The swindler and Falbel ), 1976
- Konuşan Balıkla Yalniz Kiz, (Eng. The talking fish and the lonely girl ), 1985
- Çobanla Bey Kizi, (Eng. The shepherd and the prince's daughter ), 1985
Poetry
- Savrulmayı bekleyen Harman, (Eng. The grain, which is waiting for winnowing ), 1953
- Gözünü Sevdiğim, ( dt Let me kiss you! ) 1962
- Bektashi Dedikleri, (Eng. Wen called Bektashi ), 1970 together with Metin Eloğlu
- Dagi Öpmeler, (Eng. Den Berg kiss ), 1999