was born in Turkey and came to Berlin as an actress in 1976 to work with Benno Besson and Matthias Langhoff at the Volksbühne in East Berlin. Later she acted at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum. She acted in the films Yasemin by Hark Bohm and Happy Birthday, Türke by Dorris Dörrie. Her awards include the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1991 and the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1999.

Previous works include:
Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei (Life is a Caravanserai, trans. Luise von Flotow, Middlesex University Press, London, 2000); Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998, translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, and Catalan); and Mutterzunge, (Mother Tongue, trans. Craig Thomas, Coach House Press, Canada, 1994).

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