Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in Solingen, Germany)[1] is a German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.
After traveling to Ireland, where she completed a semester abroad,[2] Turkey, and Paris, she worked with several artists collectives,[3] among other Kanack Attak Leipzig, Kaltsignal, GID, and the Ministry for Compassion.
[4] She moved to Leipzig in 2015 to attend the German Institute for Literature, where she experienced a lot of racially motivated attacks on refugee homes, which ultimately inspired her to write her debut screenplay.
[6][3] Her screenplay and audio drama Turks, Fire, tells the story of the 1993 Solingen arson attack on a Turkish home in which five people were killed.
Dündar was ten when the attack took place and originally set out to write a screenplay because she wanted the characters to be physically present.