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\u015eeyda Kurt<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Writer, publicist, curator, moderator, and speaker.<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Photo: Harriet Meyer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I studied philosophy, Romance languages, and cultural journalism in Cologne, Bordeaux, and Berlin. As an editor and freelance journalist, I have worked for various media outlets, including Zeit Online and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, as well as for different podcast formats, among them the award-winning Spotify Original Podcast 190220 \u2013 Ein Jahr nach Hanau<\/strong> and as host for the Spotify Original Podcast Man lernt nie aus<\/strong>. I regularly work as a moderator and have served as a curator for the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and the Goethe-Institut, as well as for various cultural events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

In 2024, together with media scholars Holger P\u00f6tzsch and Thomas Spies, I edited the first comprehensive German-language anthology with critical perspectives on video games. It is titled Spiel*Kritik<\/strong> and was published by transcript Verlag.<\/p>\n

I have written texts for theatrical productions at Nationaltheater Mannheim and Schauspielhaus Bochum. Since 2025, I have been hosting my own talk series at Schauspielhaus Bochum.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

In 2021, my nonfiction bestseller Radikale Z\u00e4rtlichkeit \u2013 Warum Liebe politisch ist<\/a><\/strong> (HarperCollins) was published. In 2023, the bestseller HASS \u2013 Von der Macht eines widerst\u00e4ndigen Gef\u00fchls<\/a><\/strong>, an experimental essay, followed. In 2026, my debut novel Zeit der Monster<\/a><\/strong> will be published by Hanser Verlag. My books have been translated into several languages.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-412188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412508,"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412188\/revisions\/412508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seydakurt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}