Aspectos interculturales en la obra del autor alemán de origen kurdoiraquí Sherko Fatah

443 Pages·2014·2.67 MB·English

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA
Departamento de Filología Alemana

TESIS DOCTORAL

Aspectos interculturales en la obra del autor alemán de origen kurdo-
iraquí Sherko Fatah

MEMORIA PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE DOCTOR

PRESENTADA POR

María Rosa Falcón Quintana

Directores

Ana Pérez López
Ana Ruiz Sánchez

Madrid, 2015

© María Rosa Falcón Quintana, 2015
Agradecimientos
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA

Departamento de Alemán

ASPECTOS INTERCULTURALES EN LA OBRA DEL AUTOR
ALEMÁN DE ORIGEN KURDO-IRAQUÍ SHERKO FATAH

MEMORIA PRESENTADA PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE
DOCTOR POR
María Falcón Quintana

Bajo la dirección de:

Dra. Ana Pérez López
Dra. Ana Ruiz Sánchez
Madrid, 2014
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA

Departamento de Alemán

ASPECTOS INTERCULTURALES EN LA OBRA DEL AUTOR
ALEMÁN DE ORIGEN KURDO-IRAQUÍ SHERKO FATAH

Tesis doctoral que presenta Dña. María Falcón Quintana para la obtención del Título
de Doctora en Filología Alemana, bajo la dirección de las Dras. Ana Pérez López, de
la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y Ana Ruiz Sánchez, de la Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid.

Madrid, 2014
Agradecimientos

A mis padres.

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Agradecimientos
Son muchas las personas que han contribuido a esta tesis doctoral. Quiero expresar
aquí mi más sincero agradecimiento a todas ellas.
En especial, a las Dras. Ana Pérez y Ana Ruiz, directoras de esta tesis, que me han
acompañado en este largo camino con generosidad y pazciencia.
Al Dr. Gino Chiellino, a los compañeros del grupo de investigación (Szilvia, Adrian,
Sandrine, Raluca, Jesús, Sol) y a los participantes de los seminarios de la
Universidad de Augsburgo, por compartir freundlich und solidarisch sus ideas y su
tiempo conmigo.
Al escritor Sherko Fatah, al periodista Manuel Martorell y a su amigo Abed
Abdulsattar, por responder siempre con gran interés a todas las preguntas.
A mi padre, que está siempre presente, a mi madre, la principal responsable de que
este trabajo llegara a buen puerto, y a mis hermanos, por darme la fortaleza necesaria
para acabar esta tesis.
A Lukas y a Sven, los que más han sufrido mis ausencias, por su comprensión y
amor.
A todos los amigos, que confiaron en mi capacidad para finalizar este trabajo y que
me animaron a seguir hasta el final. En especial, a Marga y a Isabel.
A todas las personas que han aportado su grano de arena a este trabajo. Sobre todo, a
Jorge, a Clara, a Paco, a Ana Mª y a Chus.
A todos, gracias.

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Title: Intercultural elements in the work of the German author, of Iraqi Kurdish
origin, Sherko Fatah.
The object of study of the present research is the work of the German author Sherko
Fatah (b.1964). In particular, we aim to analyse the presence of intercultural elements
in his first four literary texts (Donnie, Im Grenzland, Onkelchen and Das dunkle
Schiff) as well as to determine if there is an evolution in the treatment of these
aspects throughout them. For this purpose we have divided the work in four
chapterss. In the first chapter we have examined the present state of investigations, in
the second chapter we have set out the theoretical foundations that we have found to
be most suitable for the purposes of this study, in the third chapter we have carried
out an exhaustive analysis of the four works from a mainly intercultural perspective
and in the last chapter we have presented the conclusions.
The designation ‘intercultural literature in Germany’ refers to literary texts by
authors who write in German but who come from other cultural memories and
languages. Although the main body of the intercultural literature in German language
in the recent years has originated mainly in an immigration context, there are also
authors from other cultural memories and languages who have chosen to write
intercultural literature in German for reasons that are not exclusively sociocultural
and economic. This is the case of Fatah, born in Germany, of a German mother and
an Iraqi Kurdish father, and who lived for prolonged periods of time in his father’s
hometown, Suleimaniya, and has studied Philosophy and Art history in Germany. He
has published six works of fiction (with Jung und Jung and Random House), which
he wrote in his mother tongue, German, also his ‘writing language’. Migration and
exile are some of the themes that we find in his literary output. He received the
Hilde-Domin Prize for Literature in Exile from the city of Heidelberg for Im
Grenzland and Onkelchen, a prize awarded since 1992 to authors who live (or have
lived) in exile in Germany and who publish their works in German. Although it is not
the case of Fatah, the jury valued his descriptions of violence, war and the border
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