During the research for “Sevdaluk” (Show TV, 2014 - see below), the only pro-environment entertainment series ever produced in Turkey.
From left to right: actor Erdal Özyağcılar, author Nedim Hazar, German Greens Party MP Cem Özdemir.
Photograph: Gülşin Ketenci.
Stage Plays
Afters returning to Germany in 2018, Nedim Hazar wrote three short plays about artists who were considered outsiders, persecuted or exiled. These stories follow the pattern of Dario Fo and his Mistero Buffo monologues. They are part of the musical revue “Songs and Stories in Transit” by Die Mampen.
Eine Theaterszene über den Gitarristen und KZ-Überlebenden Coco Schumann aus der Musik Revue „Lieder und Geschichten im Transit“.
Eine Theaterszene über den verstorbenen türkischen Sänger Zeki Müren aus der Musik Revue „Lieder und Geschichten im Transit“.
Eine Theaterszene über den Sänger, Schauspieler und Menschenrechtler Harry Belafonte aus der Musik Revue „Lieder und Geschichten im Transit“.
Scripts
Sevdaluk
Together with Erdal Özyağcılar and Serkan Seymen.
“Sevdaluk / Passion” is about a village and its inhabitants in the mountains of the north-eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. This feature-length entertainment series was inspired by Hazar’s documentary series “The Valley”.
21 episodes x 90 minutes / Show-TV Turkey, 2014.
TIR - Orient on Wheels
Together with Laura Coroianu.
Road-movie comedy about a group of refugees who want to get to the promised land Germany utilizing a truck along a dangerous route.
Funded by the Filmstiftung NRW, 1998.
The Bosphorus Years
Together with Bernhard Pfletschinger.
A drama about a German family in exile in Turkey during the Nazi era.
Optioned by WDR television and funded by the Filmstiftung NRW, 1999.
The Dorsnee Family
Together with Laura Coroianu.
Four-part television film for
VPRO, Hungry Eye Film Production, Amsterdam, 1998.
Bürgermeister Mehmet
Political TV comedy about a Turk who runs for mayorship in a German town. (Long outdated topic!)
Project for the Film School Cologne, 1997.