Mürtüz Yolcu (born 1961 in

Iğdır Iğdır ( Turkish ; ku, Îdir or ; hy, Իգդիր, Igdir, also ) is the capital of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. History Iğdır went by the Armenian name of Tsolakert during the Middle Ages. s.v. "Igdir," Armenia ...

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) is a German-Turkish actor and theatre festival founder. Yolcu founded the Diyalog TheaterFest and has been the artistic director of the festival ever since. From 1979 to 1984, he belonged to the Turkish Ensemble of Berlin actors. He then played at the Tiyatrom Theater in Berlin and at the Turkish language family theater in Berlin. He also had engagements at the Schauburg in

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and the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse as well as the

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. In addition, the Turkish native played a series of roles in film and television, most recently "Salih" in ' (2009). The actor played "Cengiz Korkmaz" also in '' Korkmazlar'' (1988), which was distributed on tape, but also played several times on German television. Since 2010, he has been on ''

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'', a soap opera on the

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network, as Birol Özgül. Yolcu has lived in Berlin since 1978.

External links

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List of artists and artists at Ballhaus Naunynstraße
with short biography of Mürtüz Yolcu {{DEFAULTSORT:Yolcu, Murtuz 1961 births Living people People from Iğdır Male actors from Berlin German male stage actors German male film actors Turkish emigrants to West Germany German people of Turkish descent