Deniz Utlu
Berlin/Germany — Literature, Solitude fellow 2015–2017
Deniz Utlu ist an author and works as political advisor. He studied economics with philosophical emphasis in Berlin and Paris. In 2003 he founded the culture and society magazine freitext, which he edited until 2013. In 2014 his first novel Die Ungehaltenen was published and in 2015 it was adapted for stage in Maxim Gorki Theater. In different literary events he dealt with the relationship between literature and politics, for example with the series Prosa der Verhältnisse in Studio Я of Maxim Gorki Theater. Beside his work on the novel, he also wrote theater plays, poetry, short prose and essays.