Zehra Çırak

Zehra Cirák (* 1960 in Istanbul, Turkey ) is a German poet of Turkish descent.

Life

Cirák came at the age of three years after Germany, since 1982, she lives in Berlin. After the first publications in anthologies and magazines published in 1987 flight catcher, the first volume of poetry. In 1993 Cirák the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize was awarded to the city of Bad Homburg and in 2001 the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the prize they had already received in 1989.

Cirák engaged in their lyrical work with general human- existential and private fractures and transitions, love poems and spoke poetically - critical poems are a focus. Reception and criticism see Çıraks work in close connection with the German immigrant literature. With the poem foreign wings on their own shoulder Cirák is published by Harald Hartung anthology century Memory - represented German poetry in the twentieth century.

Works (selection)

• Flight catcher, poems, artinform Edition, 1988. ISBN 8525494941
• Bird on the back of an elephant, poems, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1991. ISBN 3462021176
• Foreign wings on their own shoulder, poems, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3462023314
• Physical exercises, poems, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3462028804
• In movement, poetry and prose miniatures Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, 2008. ISBN 3899302109
• The smell of happiness, stories, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 3899302818
• The art of science, poetry, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, 2012. ISBN 9783899303766