Hatice Akyün

Pressefoto Hatice Akyu╠Ên (C)Meiko Herrmann Sw

Hatice moved with her family from Anatolia to Duisburg at the age of three. She has published three novels and is a columnist for the Berlin Tagesspiegel. She moderates events, including the "Kulturfestival" of the NRW state capital Düsseldorf, the closing event of the KfW Foundation's scholarship program "ANKOMMER - Perspektive Deutschland" and the Heinrich Böll Foundation's discussion series. She has been a writer for the lifestyle magazine "Esquire" since 2021 and regularly writes cross-departmental articles on socially relevant topics. As a source of inspiration, Hatice Akyün is one of the most important voices in the German integration debate.