Ela Gezen

Biographic Data

ID5777728
NAMEEla Gezen
GIVEN NAMESEla
FAMILY NAMEGezen
SIGNATUREGEZEN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • (West-)Berliner Zeitlichkeiten und das Archiv der Migration: Aras Ören und Deniz Utlu

    Open AccessEla GezenARTICLEZeitschrift für interkulturelle…2023

    In his poetics Aras Ören explicitly addresses the impact of Turkish immigration on West Berlin and its literary manifestation.Identifying himself as a kind of literary archivist, Ören indicates his work's evocation of multiple and changing temporalities and highlights his role in shaping them.His poetics, as this essay shows, is thus marked by a dynamic relationship not only between him (the writer) and his surroundings (West Berlin), but also be…

  • Introduction: Reexamining Turkish German Archive(s)

    Open AccessEla Gezen, Mert Bahadir Reisoglu et al.ARTICLETransit2022

    This cluster emerged from a GSA (German Studies Association) conference panel series that aimed to (re)examine the Turkish German archive by specifically taking into consideration developments since 2013. In line with this issue’s focus on “investigations into critical and artistic attempts to challenge conceptions of the archive as a static, objective site of knowledge,” contributions that follow engage with a variety of positions of archival en…

  • Stewart, Lizzie. Performing New German Realities: Turkish‐German Scripts of Post‐migration

    Open AccessEla GezenARTICLEThe German Quarterly2022

  • Einleitung: Aras Ören – Zeitzeuge, Chronist und Archivar (West)Berlins

    Ela GezenARTICLEMonatshefte2021

    Ela Gezen⇑ University of Massachusetts Amherst Ela Gezen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA01003, egezen{at}german.umass.edu

  • Einleitung: Aras Ören – Zeitzeuge, Chronist und Archivar (West)Berlins

    Ela GezenARTICLEMonatshefte2020

    > Ich bin Türke, geboren 1939 in Istanbul. / Mein Paß trägt die Nummer TR-B 295136. / Bin 1,85 m groß, wiege 78 Kilo. / Mitten auf dem Kopf habe ich eine Glatze, meine Augenbrauen / aber sind buschig; / als besonderes Merkmal habe ich eine große Nase / und einen Schnauzbart (manchmal lasse ich

  • Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960

    Open AccessEla Gezen, Ela E GezenBOOKBrecht, Turkish Theater, and…2018

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  • Aras Ören and the (West) German Left

    Open AccessEla GezenARTICLELiterature Compass2016

    Examining both published and unpublished materials overlooked by existing scholarship, this essay sheds light on the transnational formation of literary and political genres through discussion of Aras Ören. As a poet and activist, Ören was one of the earliest and most significant contributors to the emergence of Turkish‐German literature and was affiliated with political circles and aesthetics of writers such as Bertolt Brecht. While focusing on …

  • Brecht on the Turkish Stage: Adaptation, Experimentation, and Theatre Aesthetics in Genco Erkal's Dostlar Tiyatrosu 1

    Open AccessEla GezenARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2016

    This essay examines the interpretation and implementation of Bertolt Brecht's dramaturgy and theatre practice in the Turkish context, focusing specifically on the theatre ensemble Dostlar Tiyatrosu and its co‐founder Genco Erkal, a dramatist, actor, and director. Rather than closely examining individual productions by Erkal, this essay engages with his theory of theatrical practice, highlighting Erkal's interpretation, transformation and adaptati…