| Zaimoglu, Feridun |
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Zaimoğlu has developed since 1995 to have become one of the important poets of contemporary German Language . His central theme are the problems of the second and third generation of Turkish immigrants to Germany . LIFE Feridun Zaimoğlu, born in Bolu/ he became ''Island poet'' on the island of Sylt , and in 2004 he was a visiting fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin . In his first book " Kanak Sprak " 1995 , he attempts to express the authentic, tough and subversive power of slang language spoken by young Turkish male youth in Germany, and calls for a new self-confidence. The grotesque figure of the maganda - as it can be traced also in popular satirical Turkish magazines - emerges as an "important medium for the formulation of new gender identities, urban subjectivities, and class relations" (Ayse Oncu in References 1, p. 187) His book became inspirational for the group "kanak attak". In 2005 , his ''installation of flags'' with the title "KanakAttak - The 3rd Turkish siege of Vienna " was exhibited at the Kunsthalle (Arts hall) in Vienna . It refers to the Siege of Vienna (July 17–September 12, 1683 ) that was an expedition by the Turks against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their defeat. In his latest book, ''Leyla'', he describes the life in a small Turkish village. It is a kind of 'reinvention' after years of writing in an explicitly male style, as he takes first time in his writing career the female viewpoint. In an interview he describes that it took him one and a half years to prepare for this fiction novel that he finished in 2004 and which is published in 2006 . BOOKS
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