Yücel Sivri is a journalist, poet, writer and translator.
Education
However, he studied in a boarding school in Istanbul, where he also completed his high school education. From 1981 to 1986 Sivri studied Maths in the Technical University of Berlin. From 1997 to 2002 he studied German Studies in the same University (key area was the new German philology) and history (key area was Greek and Roman ancient history).
Career
He lives in Berlin. Simultaneously he started working on literary translations with the history of literature of the two languages (for example Parantez, Köz, Ekinti, Gezgin). In Germany, he published his first volume of poems: Saatçi Parmakları Vardır Hazzın in 1985. Later it was also published in Turkey.
Yücel Sivri was awarded a doctorate in 2008 by the Technology Union. Besides German, English and Turkish, he is fluent with ancient languages, such as Latin and ancient Greek.
Sivri has also worked in the Turkish editorial department of Radio Multikulti, as well as in the German-Turkish editorial department of the Deutschen Presse Agentur. Yücel Sivri writes for many different magazines, journals and online websites.
He is also a collaborator of Freitext, a cultural and historical magazine based in Hannover. He was employed as a coordinator, interpreter and translator in the third bilingual forum of the German and Turkish scene cooperation 2014 that had his key point in the theme "Diversity in the society and education".
The project was realized within the framework between the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH) and the European Union Research and Application Center of the Akdeniz University Antalya (AKVAM).
In 2014 and 2015 during another bilateral project in Antalya and Berlin he co-organised workshops about bilingual early childhood development as well as he was a co-producer of the modul curriculum draft for the German-Turkish study program for bilingual early development. He also writes essays and reviews about German philology and history of literature, e.g. Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur (Zfda).
Original Works Critiques Hans-Werner Goetz: Die christlich-abendländische Wahrnehmung anderer Religionen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter.
Methodische und vergleichende Aspekte, (Wolfgang Stammler Gastprofessur für Germanische Philologie Vorträge 23), Berlin/Boston 2013. Rez. v. Yücel Sivri, in: ZfdA 143,4 (2014), South. 502–506.
Paul M. Cobb: Der Kampf ums Paradies. Eine islamische Geschichte der Kreuzzüge.
Aus dem Englischen von Michael Sailer, Darmstadt 2015, Rez. von Yücel Sivri » ZfdA 144,4 (2015), South. 521-526.
Editorials Erol Esen / Theda Borde (Hg): Deutschland und die Türkei. Forschen, Lehren und Zusammenarbeiten in Gesellschaft, Gesundheit und Bildung, Board I. Ankara 2013. Erol Esen / Theda Borde (Yay): Türkiye ve Almanya.
Toplum, Sağlık ve Eğitimde Araştırma, Öğretim ve İşbirliği, Board
World War II Ankara 2013.