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Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
Germany has swung to the right. What does that mean for the country – and Europe? Our panel responds
Fatma Aydemir on Djinns, Kurdish-Turkish families and queer identity
Do I want to watch arthouse films with fascists? No thanks, Berlin | Fatma Aydemir
Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir
Be grateful you’re still here: Germany’s rebuke of a grieving mother exposes its deepening anti-immigrant mood
A Berlin audience has fake faeces thrown at them – and is moved to tears. So am I | Fatma Aydemir
People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over
Fatma Aydemir: Djinns
Fatma Aydemir on Djinns, Kurdish-Turkish families and queer identity
Fatma Aydemir on Djinns, Kurdish-Turkish families and queer identity. In her novel Djinns, journalist and author Fatma Aydemir tells the story...
Do I want to watch arthouse films with fascists? No thanks, Berlin | Fatma Aydemir
Two days after the award show, the infamous mass-market Bild revealed Kekilli's past as a porn actor under a pseudonym and made a sensation of...
Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir
Every nation has literary classics that shape its cultural...
In Germany, football has made nationalism cool again. That’s why I’m dreading the Euros | Fatma Aydemir
A new “summer fairytale” of unbridled xenophobia and racism is the big fear among minorities and anti-fascists as Germany prepares to host the 2024 Uefa...
Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
In sports, the Black athlete is often mythologised:...
Be grateful you’re still here: Germany’s rebuke of a grieving mother exposes its deepening anti-immigrant mood
Emiş Gürbüz's son was murdered in Hanau by a far right terrorist. Her plea for justice five years on drew an astonishing reaction from the state.
Germany has swung to the right. What does that mean for the country – and Europe? Our panel responds
Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU may have won the German election, but all eyes are on the far-right AfD after its huge gains, say Fatma Aydemir,...
A Berlin audience has fake faeces thrown at them – and is moved to tears. So am I | Fatma Aydemir
On a chilly June evening, a predominantly female and queer crowd of all ages gathers here to see, or rather experience, A Year Without Summer,...
People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over
It has sucked the juice out of its artists to build the international prestige it has today. But instead of protecting its only trademark, the...
Fatma Aydemir: Djinns
A polyphonic story about Turkish immigrants, their children, dreams, trauma, and six fundamentally different people who happen to be...
Fatma Aydemir
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Writer and journalist whose work and public interventions frequently address migration, racism and identity in Germany.