Slowly but surely the names of the victims are starting to become an integral part of protests against far-right extremism and police brutality. But what about the names of those who were murdered over two decades ago? And what if most people in the country they were killed in don't know how to pronounce them?
Takdir. Die Anerkennung is one artist's response to this ongoing problem. A participatory performance that's part language lesson and part collective ritual, it's the subject of our conversation with Stuttgart-based artist Ülkü Süngün.

Takdir. Die Anerkennung - Berlin 2021
by Ülkü Süngün
October 3rd performance hosted by the Maxim Gorki Theatre
Video installation version on display as part of the Offener Prozess exhibition. Online version of the work here.
NOTE: this is the 2021 version which does not have the updated pronounciation of Mehmet (Mɛmɛt) Kubaşık.

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Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Co-host: Cory Tamler
Music: Ben Southam
Sound from: Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin
Photo Credit: Summer Banks

Dedicated to the memory of
Enver Şimşek
Abdurrahim Özüdoğru
Süleyman Taşköprü
Habil Kılıç
Mehmet Turgut
İsmail Yaşar
Theodoros Boulgarides
Mehmet Kubaşık
Halit Yozgat
Michèle Kiesewetter