Tuesday 28.4.2026 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
What does it mean for a person to lose their homeland? What does it mean to have to live in exile? It has been ten years since Ece Temulkuran left her homeland, Turkey. Born in Izmir in 1973, she is a lawyer, writer, journalist, and critic of the regime—her voice is heard internationally, and her writings have won awards. But Turkey is lost to her. During the coup in 2016, she fled into exile. First to Zagreb, then Hamburg, and now she lives in Berlin.
Ece Temelkuran resists being seen as an exile. She no longer wants to be the persecuted, intellectual innocent who fled fascism in her homeland. Because our world is changing so much, full of upheavals and crises, that we all feel alienated and estranged. Temelkuran believes that it is precisely this feeling that can unite us in the future. For her, we are a “nation of strangers.”
The reading will be in German, and the discussion with Ece Temelkuran will be in English.
An event in cooperation with the Verein der Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V. (Friends of Rohkunstbau Association).
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/ ZAK Center for Contemporary Art
/ Free of charge
