Films by Akin Sipal

Germany 2022, 14 min
by Akin Sipal

NACHRUF is an obituary for my grandfather who passed away last year. He was a well known Turkish writer and translator and translated over 60 books of German literature into Turkish, mostly Classics (the whole work of Franz Kafka, the whole Psychoanalysis by Freud, books of Hermann Hesse, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elias Canetti, Günther Grass and a lot more). Writers such as Orhan Pamuk got to know Kafka through the translations of my Grandfather. He was called 'The Turkish Voice of Kafka' in Turkey. W