Din\u00e7er G\u00fc\u00e7yeter is a theatre-maker, poet, editor and publisher. He was born in Nettetal in the Lower Rhine region. After training as a toolmaker and a spell working in the restaurant trade, he founded ELIF Verlag in 2011, which he financed for many years through part-time work as a forklift driver. At ELIF Verlag, G\u00fc\u00e7yeter publishes regional and international poetry, including his own collections \u00abAnatolien Blues\u00bb and \u00abEin Glas Leben\u00bb (both 2012) as well as \u00abAus Glut geschnitzt\u00bb (2017). The poetry collection \u00abMein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto\u00bb (2021) is a search for the roots of his own origins and an exploration of family ties beyond socially inherited ways of life. For this collection, G\u00fc\u00e7yeter received the Peter Huchel Prize in 2022. The jury praised his \u00abexpressionist linguistic force and subtle ambivalence\u00bb as well as a world between Nettetal in the Lower Rhine and Anatolia that subverts prevailing post-migrant stereotypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With his debut novel \u00abUnser Deutschlandm\u00e4rchen\u00bb (2022, tr. Our German Fairytale), G\u00fc\u00e7yeter again sets out in search of the origins of his own existence, of language and home. At the centre of this family portrait are the women who shaped his own biography and who also stand for the fates of many guest-worker families. The novel received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Fiction) in 2023, and in the same year ELIF Verlag received the Kurt Wolff Sponsorship Award. The material was adapted into three stage productions in Berlin, M\u00fcnster and Aachen; the Maxim Gorki Theatre production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2025. In 2024, G\u00fc\u00e7yeter received the Else Lasker-Sch\u00fcler Prize, which honoured both his own poetic work and his publishing commitment to the poetry of others. From 2024 to 2025, he was Stadtschreiber (town writer) of Bergen-Enkheim. In 2025, together with Wolfgang Schiffer, he edited the anthology \u00abDie Backstage eines Buches\u00bb (tr. The Backstage of a Book) for ELIF Verlag. His book \u00abFake Gucci-Jogginghose auf der Leseb\u00fchne\u00bb (tr. Fake Gucci Joggers on the Reading Stage) was published by Literaturverlag Droschl in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Din\u00e7er G\u00fc\u00e7yeter lives in Nettetal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last Update: 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64197,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[495],"jct-ilb-years":[749,1025],"class_list":["post-67359","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-germany","jct-ilb-years-2023-en","jct-ilb-years-2026-en"],"yoast_head":"\n