Şadi Üçüncü

Sadi Üçüncü ( * 1948 in Turkey; † 18 February 2004 in Germany ) was a German - Turkish writers, poets, artists and masters degree in business host.

Life

After high school and university in Istanbul Üçüncü came to Germany, where the business administration doctorate in 1974.

Üçüncü published both scholarly books and numerous volumes of poetry. The revised several times reissued band The position of women in Turkish society (1979 ) was his first. He was followed by a number of other tangible publications on social issues around Turkey and Germany, for example, integration retardant factor: hostility to foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany (1984 ), an " overview of the theory of xenophobia ". From 1986, then first books of poetry published in German language: friend, give me your hand and Stranger in Me (1988). In addition, he also published more fiction books: his main interest in scientific work was the effect of the structure of the economy industry in the industrialized countries to humans.

The poems Üçüncüs stand in the tradition of peace poetry, among other particularly Poems for Peace ( 1991) and The strangeness in Europe. Poems against xenophobia and about love (1994). Love was another major theme of the poet (for example, together with you, 2003), who also painted pictures on the theme of love and world peace.

Üçüncü, the death from cancer in 2004, has strongly pushed for his long home city of Münster as a cultural capital.