Necati Öziri, born in one of the many gray corners of the Ruhr region, studied philosophy, German studies and contemporary German literature in Bochum, Istanbul and Berlin. He lives his third life in Berlin, writes, does theater and sometimes plays the intellectual, for which his sixteen-year-old self would probably give him a slap. Of course, everything in his texts is true. Öziri was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and taught formal logic at the Ruhr University Bochum until he realized that logic does not describe the world very well. Since then, he has tried to write not about how the world is, but how it feels. As a playwright, he writes for the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Natio¬naltheater Mannheim and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. He won the Kelag Prize and the Audience Prize at the 45th Days of German-Language Literature (Ingeborg Bachmann Prize). His novel Vatermal (Ullstein/Claassen 2023) was nominated for the German Book Prize. Dark red ears when angry or otherwise agitated.

Necati Öziri was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2022 and is back on site to write his new novel as part of an extension from September to October 2024.