Şiir Eloğlu (born 6 December 1965, in

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) is a Turkish-German actress who lives and works in

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and

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Life

Eloğlu moved from Istanbul to Cologne as a four year old. The name "Şiir" is derived from her father, Metin Eloğlu (1927–1985), a painter and lyricist, who was awarded with important literature awards in the 1960s and 1970s. After graduating from high school in Cologne, Eloğlu studied for four years at the

Hochschule für Musik Saar The Hochschule für Musik Saar is a conservatory of music in Saarbrücken, Germany and dates back to 1947. From 1994 until 2002, it was named ''Hochschule des Saarlandes für Musik und Theater'' (University of Music and Drama Saarbrücken). Since ...

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. Her first engagements then took her to theatres in

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, and Cologne. In 1991, she made her first film with ', directed by

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, and acted with

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in her first ''

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''. Eloğlu became known to a wider audience between 1993 and 1996 by her role of young assistant doctor Dr. Nesrin Ergün in the RTL series '' Stadtklinik''. At the end of 1997, she moved to Berlin. She followed TV and cinema productions as well as theater engagements, among others at the

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, where she acted in ''

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'' and ''

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''. Her first international film production was the Swiss film ''

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'', which was filmed by director Cihan Inan in

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. The international cast included

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, and

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. The film ran at festivals in

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, Saarbrücken,

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, and

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, as well as in the Spanish Ourense, where it received an award for Best Screenplay. She was featured in

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, directed by

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, as Leyla Yılmaz. The film was awarded the

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. From 2014 to 2015, she played the architect Suna Kaya in the soap opera

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Filmography

* 1991: * 1992:

– Falsche Liebe (TV series) * 1992–1996: Stadtklinik (TV series) * 1997: : Kinderärztin Leah – Auf der Flucht (TV series) * 1998: Tatort – In der Falle (TV series) * 1998:

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(TV series) * 1998: * 2004:

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(TV series) * 2005–2006:

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(TV series) * 2006–2011: Der Dicke (TV series) * 2007:

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(TV series) * 2008: * 2008: * 2009:

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(TV series) * Seit 2010:

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(TV series) * 2010: 180° – Wenn deine Welt plötzlich Kopf steht * 2010: Tatort – Leben gegen Leben (TV series) * 2011: Der Verdacht (TV film) * 2011: Almanya: Welcome to Germany * 2011: * 2011: Tatort – Im Abseits * 2013: Tatort – Machtlos * 2013: 5 Jahre Leben * 2013: Sitting Next To Zoe * 2013: * 2014: Kückückskind * 2014–2015:

(TV series) * 2015: Die Kanzlei (TV series) * 2015:

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– Im Namen des Vaters * 2016: Goster * 2017: Aus dem Nichts * 2017: Tehran Taboo * 2018: Heldt * 2019: Servus, Schwiegersohn! * 2020: Matzo, kebab and sauerkraut * 2020–2021:

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* 2021: Servus, mother-in-law! * 2022: We Might As Well Be Dead

Literature

* Alexandra Eul: ''Şiir Eloğlu. Die Komische.'' In: ''Emma'', September/Oktober 2014, S. 14–15.

External links

Şiir Eloğlu
Offizielle Homepage * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eloglu, Siir 1965 births Living people German actresses Actresses from Istanbul Turkish emigrants to Germany German people of Turkish descent Actresses from Berlin Actresses from Cologne