German writer and translator
of Turkish descent. In 1953, Nevin Lutz was born in Izmit / Turkey. Because her
father served in the Turkish Armed Forces, her family moved a lot all over
Turkey. She spent most time at schools in Malatya, Erzincan and Istanbul and
finished her school education in Eskişehir.
She began her studies in the
Department of German at Ankara Teachers Training College (Gazi). In 1973, after
her marriage in Istanbul with Hellmut Lutz, she moved to Germany. She continued
her education at Bremen University and took her special degree state examinations
in Education of Handicapped Children and German as a Foreign / German as a
Second Language (DaZ / DaF).
For many years she was a
teacher at various special schools for handicapped children. For a long time she
also was assigned by both the Bremen Ministries of Education and of Social
Welfare (etc.) to help developing language teaching projects and to offer in-service
advisory training to pre-school and elementary school educators and teachers.
The target of developing
language tests was and still is to evaluate a speaker’s actual performance
level in German and his/her mother tongue and how to help him/her learning them
better. For years Nevin Lutz took part in creating
such tests, especially for Turkish and DaF/DaZ. To facilitate assessing school
beginners’ actual vocabulary in their mother tongues she assisted to produce two
CDs in 15 languages.
On behalf of the Ministry of
Education for quite some time she also worked in elementary and secondary
schools as a special counsellor to teachers of immigrant children and children suffering
from learning difficulties and maladjustment.
Nevin Lutz for a great number
of years was spokeswoman in the TU Bremen team “Intercultural Learning” (AGIL)
and a member of the GEW “Federal Committee on Multicultural Matters”. Her main
concern was the improvement of immigrant children’s educational situation and
of better social and economic recognition of their teachers.
She was a voluntary
supporter of the Bremen “Women’s Migratory Counsel”. For eleven years she was
on the board of trustees of “Schattenriss”, a Bremen-based consulting and
advisory institution against sexual violence and abuse.
Nevin Lutz is a member of
the GEW / TU (Union of Teachers in Education and Science) and of the
“Association of Turkish-writing Authors in Europe” s (ATYG).
Together with A. Hobusch and
U. Wiest she published the book
“Language Assessment Tests and Support-orientated
Diagnosis / Testing procedures in German as a foreign or second language for
elementary school children” - “Sprachstandsüberprüfung und Förderdiagnostik” Testverfahren für Grundschulkinder mit
Deutsch als Erst- und Zweitsprache
Persen Verlag – 2016 – mit zwei CDs
ISBN 978-3-403-20059-8
Nevin and Hellmut Lutz jointly published:
Aziz Nesin – “Çocuklarıma / An meine Kinder / To my
Children” written in three languages and published by themselves in 2016
303 pages – hard cover – ISBN 978-3-00-054830-7
Delivery on payment – e-mail [email protected]
In five prose texts and 13 poems Aziz Nesin in his
original Turkish tongue confronts himself and his readers with life’s important
questions. Êach of the texts in Turkish, English and German îs enriched by
pertaining comments and ten guiding questions.
Yürekten Yüreğe /
Von Herz zu Herz
Collection of 114 poems by 18 writers, all members of the
“Association of Turkish-writing Authors
in Europe” (ATYG).
Final translation into German and final editorial work by
Hellmut and Nevin Lutz
Publisher Schulbuchverlag Anadolu – 2018
335 pages – hard cover – ISBN 978-3-86121-714-5
Nevin Lutz lives in Oyten, close to Bremen.
E-mail: [email protected]
REFERENCE: Kemal Yalçın (Confirmation of information,
14.04.2021)
