Haldun Taner; tiyatroya adanan bir hayat

Storyteller and dramatist, academician Haldun Taner37 years have passed since his death.

Taner, one of the pioneers of epic and cabaret in Turkish theater, was one of Istanbul’s representatives in the Turkish parliament on May 16, 1915. Ahmet Selahattin Bey with Mrs. SezaHe was born in Istanbul as the son of .

Taner, who lost his father when he was only 5 years old, is the director of Tiskara with his mother and grandfather. Ismail Hamid BeyHe started living in Saraçhanebaşı’s villa.

Continuing his life with his grandmother, aunt and 4 uncles in the villa, Taner learned the subtleties of the Turkish language, family discipline and work discipline from his mother.

The Hamid printing house, where he went to gain experience during the school holidays, became the school of his life.

Taner, whose childhood experience was a turning point in his life as a writer, spent all his time in his grandfather’s printing shop, surrounded by the sounds of machines.

Galatasaray high school graduate

Taner, who went to Galatasaray High School (Mekteb-i Sultani) for secondary education, graduated in 1935.

Haldun Taner went to Heidelberg University in Germany on a state scholarship in 1935-1938. to study economics and politics. Having to leave school and return to Turkey due to tuberculosis, Taner was treated at the Erenköy sanatorium between 1938 and 1942.

Taner, who was interested in theater at a young age, said in a statement, “At that time, I watched Hasan Efendi, Našit, Džemal Sahir, Darülbedayi and plays by my grandmother’s classmate Šadi Fikret. The first cinema I saw was the National Cinema in Saraçhanebaşı. Then we went to the Alemdar and Ali Efendi cinemas.‘ he used.

He entered the world of literature with dashes

Taner’s short story “Töhmet”, which entered the world of literature with the lines he wrote with the advice of his French literature teacher, Monsieur Dard, was published in Yedigün magazine in 1946 under the pseudonym “Haldun Yağcıoğlu”.

The writings of the master writer, who also wrote short stories, plays, sketches, cabarets, screenplays and satires, were also published in the magazines “Ülkü”, “Yücel”, “Varlık”, “Küçük Dergisi” and “Yeni Insan”.

Taner, whose book “Long Live Democracy”, consisting of political stories, was published in 1949, graduated in literature from the University of Istanbul, department of German language and literature in 1950 and worked as an assistant in the department of art history.

His works have been awarded in the country and abroad.

Tanera, whose story in the book “It Rained for Şişhan” won first place in the New York Herald Tribune International Newspaper Contest in 1953, was chosen as the “Most Admired Storyteller of the Year” by Varlık magazine in 1956.

While Taner’s book “On İkiye Bir Var”, published in 1954, was the first work to win the Sait Faik Prize for Stories, which began in 1955, his story of the same name won a prize in the “Stories in Time” competition organized by the Swiss publishing house Atlantis house.

Haldun Taner studied philosophy and theater at the University of Vienna in 1955-1957. In the same years, Taner wrote scripts for Yeşilçam and saw more than 700 plays during those years while staying in Vienna, and was also interested in classical and epic theater.

Founded by Ostrich Cabaret Theatre

Taner, who taught theater history and dramaturgy at Istanbul University in 1957, also wrote columns for Tercüman newspaper.

The writer, who started working as a lecturer at the university’s Faculty of Economics on March 1, 1960, had to leave his job due to the coup.

The author, who became a lecturer in the Department of French Philology in 1962 and continued in this position until April 21, 1976, trained students at the Institute of Journalism of the Faculty of Letters in Istanbul and the Private Theater School of the Language and Culture Center (LCC), which he founded in 1968. After 1950.

Taner has focused on theater studies since 1960. Taner, who pioneered the establishment of cabaret theater to present critical plays about current events; Ahmet Gulhan, Clever Alasya AND Metin Akpinar In 1967, he founded the Devekuşu Cabaret theater in Istanbul.

He wrote anecdotes under the title “Letters to the Ostrich”

Munir Ozkul Taner, who founded Bizim Tiyatro in 1969 and Tef Theater Group with Ahmet Gülhan in 1978, wrote anecdotes in his column in Tercüman and Milliyet newspapers entitled “Letters to the Ostrich”.

Taner used the tradition of meddah and the characteristics of Tuluat theater in his plays. The drama “Keşanlı Ali Epic”, written by the author, who gave successful examples of the dramatic genre in his first theatrical works, was also the first example of epic theater in Turkish theater and was staged in Germany, England, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

His book “Sancho’s Morning Walk” won the short story award at the Bordighera International Humor Festival, and Taner’s play “The Cunning Wife of a Stupid Husband” won the 1972 Turkish Language Theater Association award.

Taner, who most often includes topics such as man and human values, nature, life, time, psychological states, the possibility of choice, selectivity and abnormality, has written classic braids that keep the event in the foreground.

The author, who includes intrigue, surprises and humorous situations in his works, also participated in UNESCO’s cultural commissions of the United Nations.

Haldun Taner died in Haydarpaşa Chest Hospital, from where he was transferred on May 7, 1986, and was buried in Küplüce Cemetery.

While the “Haldun Taner Story Award” has been organized by Milliyet newspaper since 1987, the author’s name was given to a street in 1988 in the city theater of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Metropolitan Stage and Caddebostan.