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Hakan Savaş Mican
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Berlin, West Germany
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active2008–present

Hakan Savaş Mican (born 1978) is a German-Turkish filmmaker, playwright and director.

Biography

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Hakan Savaş Mican was born in Berlin in 1978[1] as the son of Turkish immigrants, but grew up with his grandmother in Turkey. After passing the Turkish Abitur in Ankara in 1995, he moved back to Berlin in 1997 to study architecture, graduating in 2004. He then went on to study directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb).[2][3]

After completing his studies, Mican made several short films, one of which (Fremd.Yaban, 2007) received some praise.[4] His 30-minute feature film Adems Sohn, which ran on German television in 2008,[5] was previewed at the 13th Turkey/Germany Film Festival in Nuremberg.[6]

In 2009, he completed the play Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof ("The Swans of the Slaughterhouse"), which retells "stories of Turkish-Germans who were entangled in the East-West divide in some form".[7] Mican also wrote and directed plays for the theater such as Der Besuch/Ziyaret (2009),[8] a Ballhaus Naunynstraße production that was presented at the German-Turkish theater and film festival Beyond Belonging – Almancı![9] ran in Istanbul in June 2009[10] and Schnee (2010), also a Ballhaus-Naunynstraße production[11] loosely based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Orhan Pamuk. He also staged for the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater,[12] with plays such as Marianna Salzmann's Beg your pardon und Schwimmen lernen – ein Lovesong. With this piece he was invited to the festival of young directors Radikal jung at the Münchner Volkstheater and the Theater & Orchester Heidelberg in 2014, where he staged Kasimir und Karoline in the same year.

Mican calls the style of his productions unspectacular, down-to-earth and says he doesn't work with actors, but with people whose individuality he integrates into the theater characters.[13]

Filmography

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  • Drei Annäherungen, short film, 2005
  • Muttermal, short film, 2006
  • Fremd.Yaban, short film, 2007
  • Adems Sohn, motion picture, 2008[14]

References

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  1. ^ Karanfil, Gken; Karanfil, Gökçen; Savk, Serkan, eds. (2013). Imaginaries Out of Place Cinema, Transnationalism and Turkey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 9781443868600.
  2. ^ "HAKAN SAVAŞ MİCAN". www.gorki.de. Maxim Gorki Theater. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Hakan Savaş Mican". Deutsches Theater Berlin. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Gutachten zu Fremd.Yaban". Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden.[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Filmzeit Beitrag". RBB.
  6. ^ "Adems Sohn beim 13. Filmfestival Türkei/Deutschland". www.fftd.net.
  7. ^ Webber, Andrew J. (2017). The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin. Cambridge University Press. p. 220. ISBN 9781316982617.
  8. ^ Scheer, Monique; Klassen, Pamela E. (2019). The Public Work of Christmas Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 183. ISBN 9780773557956. The issue was captured artistically in 2016 when Hakan Savas Mican put on a theatre performance at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Kreuzberg
  9. ^ "Der Besuch beim Theater- und Filmfestival in Istanbul". www.almanci.kulturspruenge.net. Archived from the original on 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  10. ^ "Rezension des Festivals mit Resonanz auf Der Besuch". Online-Kulturmagazin Perlentaucher.
  11. ^ "Schnee". Ballhaus Naunynstraße.
  12. ^ "Mitteilung des Maxim-Gorki-Theaters zu Hakas Mican". www.gorki.de.
  13. ^ Christiane Lutz: Ringen um Empathie. Hakan Mican inszeniert Horváths "Kasimir und Karoline am Münchner Volkstheater. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 274, 28 November 2014, ISSN 0174-4917
  14. ^ Besprechung von Adems Sohn[dead link‍] auf rbb-online.de
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