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Deniz Göktürk

Deniz Göktürk (1963, Istanbul) is a German scholar, essayist and literary translator of German and Turkish origin.

Life
Göktürk is the daughter of Aksit Göktürk, a Turkish professor of English literature, and Pia Angela Göktürk (born Lorenzi), a German sociologist and linguist.

She received her Abitur in 1980 at the German School in Istanbul. She studied in Konstanz, Norwich and Berlin, where she earned her doctorate in German literature in 1995. That same year, she left Germany to accept a position at the University of Southampton in England. As early as the early 1990s, she had published numerous academic articles, essays and books on the cultural history in Germany particularly on the issues of migration and film history.

Göktürk wrote the section on "Migration and Cinema" in Carmine Gino Chiellino's "Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch" (2000).

As a literary translator from Turkish she also translated works by Aras Ören, a well-known German writer who works in his Turkish mother tongue, such as Berlin Savigny Platz (1995) or the Secret of the Clock Tower (1996).

Together with Zafer Senocak she was co-editor of a German-language anthology of Turkish narratives Jedem Wort gehört ein Himmel : Türkei literarisch (1991) verantwortlich.

As of 2000, Göktürk primarily publishes in English. In 2002, she published The German Cinema Book an extensive reference to German Cienma.

Göktürk is currently Professor of German at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Chair of the German Department. She offers courses on topics such as "Transnational Cinemas", "Comedy & Community", "World Cinema / Global Cities", "Nation & Representation" in [2]. Publications

Books

 * Jedem Wort gehört ein Himmel. Türkei literarisch. Babel-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928551-00-0.
 * Künstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure ... Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912–1920. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3235-X (Zugleich: Berlin, Freie Universität, Dissertation, 1995).
 * als Herausgeberin mit Tim Bergfelder und Erica Carter: The German Cinema Book. British Film Institute, London 2002, ISBN 0-85170-945-1.

Translations

 * Aras Ören: Berlin Savignyplatz (= Auf der Suche nach der Gegenwart. Bd. 5). Elefanten Press, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88520-565-3.
 * Aras Ören: Das Geheimnis des Uhrturms (= Berliner Handpresse. Druck 95, ). 10 achtfarbige Original-Linolschnitte von Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Handpresse, Berlin 1996.
 * Aras Ören: Auf der Suche nach der gegenwärtigen Zeit. 6: Unerwarteter Besuch. Elefantenpress, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-595-5.
 * Aras Ören: Auf der Suche nach der gegenwärtigen Zeit. 4: Sehnsucht nach Hollywood. Elefantenpress, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-751-6.
 * Bilge Karasu: Der Garten entschwundener Katzen. Erzählzyklus. Literaturca-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-935535-05-8.

A comprehensive list of her publications can be found in: http://berkeley.academia.edu/DenizGokturk