Yücel Sivri

Yücel Sivri (born 1961 İzmir, Turkey) is a journalist, poet, writer and translator. He lives in Berlin.

When he was 8 years old, he moved with his parents from Turkey to West Berlin, where he is currently located. However, he studied in a boarding school in Istanbul, where he also completed his high school education. From 1981 to 1986 Sivri studied Maths in the Technical University of Berlin. Simultaneously he started working on literary translations with the history of literature of the two languages (for example Parantez, Köz, Ekinti, Gezgin). In Germany, he published his first volume of poems: Saatçi Parmakları Vardır Hazzın in 1985. Later it was also published in Turkey. From 1997 to 2002 he studied German Studies in the same University (key area was the new German philology) and history (key area was Greek and Roman ancient history). Yücel Sivri was awarded a doctorate in 2008 by the TU. Besides German, English and Turkish, he is fluent with ancient languages, such as Latin and ancient Greek. Sivri has also worked in the Turkish editorial department of Radio Multikulti, as well as in the German-Turkish editorial department of the Deutschen Presse Agentur. Yücel Sivri writes for many different magazines, journals and online websites. He is also a collaborator of Freitext, a cultural and historical magazine based in Hannover.

He was employed as a coordinator, interpreter and translator in the third bilingual forum of the German and Turkish scene cooperation 2014 that had his key point in the theme "Diversity in the society and education". The project was realized within the framework between the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH) and the European Union Research and Application Center of the Akdeniz University Antalya (AKVAM). In 2014 and 2015 during another bilateral project in Antalya and Berlin he co-organised workshops about bilingual early childhood development as well as he was a co-producer of the modul curriculum draft for the German-Turkish study program for bilingual early development. He also writes essays and reviews about German philology and history of literature, e.g. Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur (Zfda).

Original works

• Saatçi Parmakları Vardır Hazzın, Berlin 1985
• Düşdökümü, Istanbul 1992
• Bunker'den, Istanbul 1994

Critiques

• Hans-Werner Goetz: Die christlich-abendländische Wahrnehmung anderer Religionen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter. Methodische und vergleichende Aspekte, (Wolfgang Stammler Gastprofessur für Germanische Philologie. Vorträge 23), Berlin/Boston 2013. Rez. v. Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 143,4 (2014), S. 502–506.
• Paul M. Cobb: Der Kampf ums Paradies. Eine islamische Geschichte der Kreuzzüge. Aus dem Englischen von Michael Sailer, Darmstadt 2015, Rez. von Yücel Sivri » ZfdA 144,4 (2015), S. 521-526.

Editorials

• Erol Esen / Theda Borde (Hg.): Deutschland und die Türkei. Forschen, Lehren und Zusammenarbeiten in Gesellschaft, Gesundheit und Bildung, Bd. I. Ankara 2013.
• Erol Esen / Theda Borde (Yay.): Türkiye ve Almanya. Toplum, Sağlık ve Eğitimde Araştırma, Öğretim ve İşbirliği, Bd. II. Ankara 2013.

Translation works

• Enis Batur, Sarnic (Zisterne), Berlin 1990
• Enis Batur, Kandil (Kandela), Berlin 1992
• Murathan Mungan, Metal (Metall), Berlin 1994
• Lale Müldür, Kuzey Defteri (Nordbuch), Berlin, 1995
• 90 Dakikada Hegel (Biographie von Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), Istanbul 1997
• 90 Dakikada Konfüçyus (Biographie von Konfuzius), Istanbul 1998
• Seçme Eserler (Aus dem Gesammelten Werk von Gottfried Benn), unpublished
• Dişavurumcu Savaş Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthologie der Expressionistischen Kriegsgedichte), unpublished