Ich bin Eyşe Shan

Ich bin Eyşe Shan Essen 2025

Start: January 6, 2025 - 20:00End: January 6, 2025 - 22:00

Katakomben Theater

The work is a biographical narrative performance. Actress Berfin Zenderlioğlu, through her vocal performance, revives the spirit of Eyşe Şan and thus takes the place of Eyşe Şan and tells her story.

Eyşe Şan (* 1938, Diyarbakır; † December 18, 1996, İzmir) was a woman who dedicated her life to music. For her, music was both freedom and resistance. She struggled as a woman and an artist in a patriarchal and feudal society, in a path full of difficulties and obstacles such as the banning of the Kurdish mother tongue, censorship and state oppression. She was always the center of attention with her voice and beauty, but this also caused her problems. Yet she never gave up and mastered her music on an impressive path that started in Diyarbakir and traveled to Germany via Istanbul, Baghdad and Erbil. She eventually died in loneliness in Izmir.

Kurdish with German superscription.