'West Berlin became my street': Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Turkish factory worker turned actress
- Posted on August 1, 2025
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'West Berlin became my street': Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Turkish factory worker turned actress

'Being 20 in West Berlin' (5/6). Writer, actress and theater director, the now 60-something Emine Sevgi Özdamar arrived in Germany from Turkey as a young woman to work in a factory. Very quickly, the aspiring actress discovered a new way of making theater.