Semra Ertan
Cana Bilir-Meier
Semra Ertan was born in Turkey in 1956 and moved to her parents to the federal republic of Germany in 1972. In 1982, she burnt herself to death in Hamburg in protest against xenophobia and racism in Germany.
Cana Bilir-Meier
Cana Bilir-Meier studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the School for Independent Film Friedl Kubelka in Vienna and Sabancı University in Istanbul. In 2021, she was a visiting professor of art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She works as a film-maker, artist and art educator. She co-founded an initiative in memory of Semra Ertan in 2018. In 2020, she co-edited a volume of poems titled Semra Ertan – My name is Ausländer / Benim Adım Yabancı.
Films by Cana Bilir-Meier
Zwischenwelt 2023 | All Ausländer Go to Heaven (Musikvideo Fehler Kuti a.k.a. Julian Warner) 2021 | This Makes Me Want to Predict the Past 2019 | Ronya Othmann 2019 | Kabadayı (Musikvideo EsRap) 2019 | Bestes Gericht 2017
