{"id":1296,"date":"2022-04-13T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doing-memory.de\/literature-as-shelter-to-go-semra-ertan\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T08:00:06","slug":"literature-as-shelter-to-go-semra-ertan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doing-memory.de\/en\/literature-as-shelter-to-go-semra-ertan\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature as &#8220;Shelter to Go&#8221; &#8211; Semra Ertan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This podcast episode remembers poet and activist Semra Ertan, who publicly self-immolated in 1982 to protest racism. She left behind poems that were not published in Germany until 2020 under the title &#8220;Mein Name ist Ausl\u00e4nder&#8221;. The conversation with <strong>Taudy Pathmanathan<\/strong> and <strong>Tamer D\u00fczyol<\/strong> is about self-empowerment in literature in the face of manifold discrimination in the established cultural establishment, about the &#8216;postmigrant heritage&#8217; and about solidarity and exchange in diverse forms of expression.  <\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/doing-memory\/embed\/episodes\/S1F08-Literatur-als-Schutzraum-to-go--Semra-Ertan-e1hsuvr\" height=\"140px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the event<\/h4>\n\n<p>On May 24, 1982, activist, poet and worker Semra Ertan doused herself with gasoline at a busy intersection in Hamburg and set herself on fire in protest of racism. Two days later, she died from her injuries. She left behind over 350 poems in which she made classism, sexism, capitalism, and above all racism her subject matter. Her family had come to Germany from Turkey in the course of the recruitment of so-called guest workers.  <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Literature, links and background information<\/h4>\n\n<p>Taudy Pathmanathan and Tamer D\u00fczyol: &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kanakistan.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kanakistan<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>Taudy Pathmanathan and Tamer D\u00fczyol: &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edition-assemblage.de\/buecher\/haymatlos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haymatlos<\/a>&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n<p>Tamer D\u00fczyol: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edition-assemblage.de\/buecher\/araf-unsichtbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Araf &#8211; Un:::Visible<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>Semra Ertan: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edition-assemblage.de\/buecher\/mein-name-ist-auslaender-benim-adim-yabanci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My Name is Foreigner<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canabilirmeier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cana Bilir-Meier<\/a>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canabilirmeier.com\/?page_id=229\" target=\"_blank\">Work on Semra Ertan<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Sulaiman Masomi: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shoptyr.de\/epages\/82748427.sf\/de_DE\/?ObjectPath=\/Shops\/82748427\/Products\/978-3-947106-24-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We have come to write<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Natasha A. Kelly:<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/orlanda.de\/book\/sisters-and-souls\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sisters and Souls<\/a> &#8211; Inspirations by May Ayim&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolzeaugen-books.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proud Eyes Books<\/a>: Germany&#8217;s first BIPOC publishing company<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.literarischediverse.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Literary Miscellaneous<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stefanie-lahya.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Cana Bilir-Meier: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/semraertaninitiative.wordpress.com\/semra-ertan\/ihre-eigene-stimme-kendi-sesi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Semra Ertan &#8211; Her Own Voice, Kendi Sesi, Your Own Voice<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-147562306\/audiocollage-zum-gedenken-an-semra-ertan-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audio collage<\/a> with voices of family, friends and people in solidarity<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/semraertaninitiative.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Initiative in<\/a> memory of Semra Ertan<\/p>\n\n<p>Thembi Wolf: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/de\/article\/n7v3k8\/warum-sich-die-25-jaehrige-semra-ertan-angezuendet-hat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why 25-year-old Semra set herself on fire in St. Pauli<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p>G\u00fcrsel Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/taz.de\/Todestag-von-Semra-Ertan\/!5774155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the Fire<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>Leyla Sophie Gleissner: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fkultur%2F2020-12%2Fsemra-ertan-schriftstellerin-namen-suizid%2Fkomplettansicht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writing without a name<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p>APUZ: &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bpb.de\/shop\/zeitschriften\/apuz\/59727\/50-jahre-anwerbeabkommen-mit-der-tuerkei\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 years of recruitment agreement with Turkey<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Podcasts<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Deutschlandradio: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/semra-ertan-mein-name-ist-auslaender-politische-poesie-und-100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Political poetry and self-immolation<\/a> &#8211; Fatma Aydemir in conversation with Timo Grampes<\/p>\n\n<p>Hamburger Morgenpost Podcast: &#8220;#59 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3MJwsORiudNZweQo9RKGiX?si=qGoaiRNKTw-4PhG9TgltxQ&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\">The day Semra Ertan took her own life<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p>Taz Podcast:<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0RWMXkXYzKfiLytVrLRpKU?si=rhKTtfDETTKqdEACpUIxDQ&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A new book of poems presents Semra Ertan&#8217;s resistance poetry<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rice and Shine:<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5g8TLYg3gahvTPQF3Dytj3?si=YeF49eeNQCasMGTbqim-IQ&amp;dl_branch=1&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Hamburg 1980 &#8211; When right-wing terror flared up again<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h4>\n\n<p>Editors: Tanja Thomas, Fabian Virchow and Tobias Fernholz<br\/>Co-conceptualization and production: grasshopper kreativ<br\/>Hosts: Tanja Thomas and Fabian Virchow<br\/>Sound logo: Martin Pfeilsticker and Pia Fruth<\/p>\n\n<p>The event review was produced by Master&#8217;s students from Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen and D\u00fcsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits event review<\/h5>\n\n<p>Original sound source: Friedo Karth<br\/>Speakers: Pia Fruth and Gamze \u00d6zdemir<br\/>Students: Pauline Ruhe, Tamina Stephan, Anna Steigerwald, Judith Weidner, Laurentia Bausinger, Marie Zornbach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This podcast episode remembers poet and activist Semra Ertan, who publicly self-immolated in 1982 to protest racism. 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