From the Stage to the Screen: Theatre Film Screenings & Talks – Our German Fairytale
May 9, 2026, 19:30
Our German Fairytale, 2024, 118’
German; Turkish and English subtitles
Speakers: Dinçer Güçyeter and Hakan Savaş Mican
Moderator: Tunçay Kulaoğlu
Dinçer Güçyeter’s debut novel, Our German Fairy Tale, which caused a major stir in Germany, is a family story that is centered on his mother, Fatma. Theater and film director Hakan Savaş Mican, who adapted this multi-layered migration narrative for the stage, also works with the deep traces of his own life story. After watching the theater film, a discussion with the writer and director will focus on stories featuring strong female characters, written by second-generation sons. The discussion will explore why and how the male-dominated perspective prevalent in migration narratives can be challenged across different artistic mediums, and what significance this holds today.
Dinçer Güçyeter was honoured with the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Fairtayles of Our Germany. In 2022 he received the Peter Huchel Prize for his volume of poetry Mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto (My Prince, I am the Ghetto). Furthermore, he’s the founder of the small publisher ELIF, which focuses on poetry in particular and which Güçyeter also finances through his part-time work as a forklift operator. Fairtayles of Our Germany celebrated its premiere at the Maxim Gorki Theater in April 2024, directed by Hakan Savaş Mican.
Hakan Savaş Mican, born in Berlin in 1978 and raised in Turkey, returned to Berlin in 1996 and completed his architecture studies in 2004. He then studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). During his studies, he made feature films and documentaries for ARTE and RBB. Since 2008, he worked as a director, author and adaptor of literary material for theater, including at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Maxim Gorki Theater, where he has been resident director since 2013. His productions have been invited to numerous festivals, including the Berliner Theatertreffen, and have been shown internationally, including in Stockholm, Amsterdam, Prague and New York.
Registration is not required. The talk will be held in Turkish.
From the Stage to the Screen: Theatre Film Screenings & Talks – Our German Fairytale
Screening
May 9, 2026, 19:30
Our German Fairytale, 2024, 118’
German; Turkish and English subtitles
Speakers: Dinçer Güçyeter and Hakan Savaş Mican
Moderator: Tunçay Kulaoğlu
Dinçer Güçyeter’s debut novel, Our German Fairy Tale, which caused a major stir in Germany, is a family story that is centered on his mother, Fatma. Theater and film director Hakan Savaş Mican, who adapted this multi-layered migration narrative for the stage, also works with the deep traces of his own life story. After watching the theater film, a discussion with the writer and director will focus on stories featuring strong female characters, written by second-generation sons. The discussion will explore why and how the male-dominated perspective prevalent in migration narratives can be challenged across different artistic mediums, and what significance this holds today.
Dinçer Güçyeter was honoured with the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Fairtayles of Our Germany. In 2022 he received the Peter Huchel Prize for his volume of poetry Mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto (My Prince, I am the Ghetto). Furthermore, he’s the founder of the small publisher ELIF, which focuses on poetry in particular and which Güçyeter also finances through his part-time work as a forklift operator. Fairtayles of Our Germany celebrated its premiere at the Maxim Gorki Theater in April 2024, directed by Hakan Savaş Mican.
Hakan Savaş Mican, born in Berlin in 1978 and raised in Turkey, returned to Berlin in 1996 and completed his architecture studies in 2004. He then studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). During his studies, he made feature films and documentaries for ARTE and RBB. Since 2008, he worked as a director, author and adaptor of literary material for theater, including at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Maxim Gorki Theater, where he has been resident director since 2013. His productions have been invited to numerous festivals, including the Berliner Theatertreffen, and have been shown internationally, including in Stockholm, Amsterdam, Prague and New York.
Registration is not required. The talk will be held in Turkish.
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