Discipline: Journalism

Mely Kiyak

Year 2013
Discipline Journalism

Mely Kiyak, born in 1976, lives in Berlin and has published several books, essays, plays and other texts. She writes the weekly political column “Kiyaks Deutschstunde” (Kiyak’s German Lesson) for Zeit Online and “Kiyaks Theater Kolumne” (Kiyak’s Theater Column) for the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. In 2011 she was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize. During her stay at Tarabya, she wrote the play Aufstand (Uprising) about a Kurdish artist in Berlin who reflects on his life in Turkey. The play premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2014 and was shown there until 2018. In 2013 Kiyak published Istanbul Notizen (Istanbul Notes) (Turkish/German) and Herr Kiyak dachte, jetzt fängt der schöne Teil des Lebens an (Mr. Kiyak Thought that the Best Part of His Life Will Start Now), in 2018 Haltung. Ein Essay gegen das Lautsein (Bearing. An Essay against Being Loud). In 2020, Hanser published her latest work, Frausein (Being a Woman).

Mely Kiyak was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to October 2013.

Year 2013
Discipline Journalism

Mely Kiyak, born in 1976, lives in Berlin and has published several books, essays, plays and other texts. She writes the weekly political column “Kiyaks Deutschstunde” (Kiyak’s German Lesson) for Zeit Online and “Kiyaks Theater Kolumne” (Kiyak’s Theater Column) for the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. In 2011 she was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize. During her stay at Tarabya, she wrote the play Aufstand (Uprising) about a Kurdish artist in Berlin who reflects on his life in Turkey. The play premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2014 and was shown there until 2018. In 2013 Kiyak published Istanbul Notizen (Istanbul Notes) (Turkish/German) and Herr Kiyak dachte, jetzt fängt der schöne Teil des Lebens an (Mr. Kiyak Thought that the Best Part of His Life Will Start Now), in 2018 Haltung. Ein Essay gegen das Lautsein (Bearing. An Essay against Being Loud). In 2020, Hanser published her latest work, Frausein (Being a Woman).

Mely Kiyak was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to October 2013.

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Jean Peters

Year 2021
Discipline Journalism

Jean Peters is a writer and performance artist. He studied political science in London and Berlin. Peters founded the media tactical collective Peng!, which regularly infiltrates companies or secret services. Together with Peng, he has exhibited at the Manifesta Biennale, the Athens Biennale and the Berlin Biennale and was awarded the Aachen Peace Prize. He is co-founder of the NGO Seebrücke and the European umbrella association for children and circus education (EYCO), works undercover for the Correctiv research center and published the book If hope dies, it goes on anyway in 2021 at Fischer. In 2017 he received the second best prize at the International Muffin Competiotion, Tokyo and the audience award. Jean Peters teaches among others at the Angewandte in Vienna and the University of Cologne. He lives in Berlin.

Jean Peters was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October to November 2021.

Year 2021
Discipline Journalism

Jean Peters is a writer and performance artist. He studied political science in London and Berlin. Peters founded the media tactical collective Peng!, which regularly infiltrates companies or secret services. Together with Peng, he has exhibited at the Manifesta Biennale, the Athens Biennale and the Berlin Biennale and was awarded the Aachen Peace Prize. He is co-founder of the NGO Seebrücke and the European umbrella association for children and circus education (EYCO), works undercover for the Correctiv research center and published the book If hope dies, it goes on anyway in 2021 at Fischer. In 2017 he received the second best prize at the International Muffin Competiotion, Tokyo and the audience award. Jean Peters teaches among others at the Angewandte in Vienna and the University of Cologne. He lives in Berlin.

Jean Peters was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October to November 2021.

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Andreas Fanizadeh

Year 2024
Discipline Journalism

Andreas Fanizadeh, born in St.Johann/Pg. (Austria) in 1963, is head of the culture department at taz in Berlin. He was previously foreign editor of Die Wochenzeitung in Zurich and editor at ID Verlag (Edition ID-Archiv) in Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine Die Beute. He has worked with Schorsch Kamerun and Stefanie Carp at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Fanizadeh studied German and political science in Frankfurt am Main.

Andreas Fanizadeh was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024

Year 2024
Discipline Journalism

Andreas Fanizadeh, born in St.Johann/Pg. (Austria) in 1963, is head of the culture department at taz in Berlin. He was previously foreign editor of Die Wochenzeitung in Zurich and editor at ID Verlag (Edition ID-Archiv) in Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine Die Beute. He has worked with Schorsch Kamerun and Stefanie Carp at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Fanizadeh studied German and political science in Frankfurt am Main.

Andreas Fanizadeh was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024

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Ingo Arend

Year 2024
Discipline Journalism

Ingo Arend is a political scientist and historian. Since the 1990s, Arend has worked as a cultural journalist for visual arts, literature and cultural policy at WDR, later as cultural editor at the weekly newspaper der Freitag, where he was head of the culture department and editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper. Since 2010, he has been working as a freelance critic, author and juror in Berlin, interrupted by cultural editorial positions at taz and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. His work focuses on global art, the relationship between art and politics, art and history and art and culture in Turkey. In 2011, he initiated the Turkish-German literature festival dildile at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 2015-2023, he served on the board of the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin. There, together with the Berlin Senate for Culture, he initiated an exchange scholarship that allows artists living in Istanbul to live and work in Berlin for six months twice a year. Weblog: Aesthetics and Democracy.

Ingo Arend was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.

Year 2024
Discipline Journalism
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Ingo Arend is a political scientist and historian. Since the 1990s, Arend has worked as a cultural journalist for visual arts, literature and cultural policy at WDR, later as cultural editor at the weekly newspaper der Freitag, where he was head of the culture department and editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper. Since 2010, he has been working as a freelance critic, author and juror in Berlin, interrupted by cultural editorial positions at taz and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. His work focuses on global art, the relationship between art and politics, art and history and art and culture in Turkey. In 2011, he initiated the Turkish-German literature festival dildile at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 2015-2023, he served on the board of the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin. There, together with the Berlin Senate for Culture, he initiated an exchange scholarship that allows artists living in Istanbul to live and work in Berlin for six months twice a year. Weblog: Aesthetics and Democracy.

Ingo Arend was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.

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