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Recai Hallaç (born 1962 in Istanbul) is a Turkish actor, simultaneous interpreter and literary translator from Turkish.

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Hallaç grew up in his native Istanbul and attended the German-Turkish school İstanbul Lisesi. He received training as a simultaneous interpreter in Brussels, after which he lived again in Istanbul. In 1990 he moved to Germany.

Here Hallaç first worked as an editor, speaker and actor at the WDR Funkhaus Europa, in particular at the Cologne Radyosu and the Turkish editorial team Deutsche Welle. Hallaç’s own theatre projects took him to Austria and Cyprus. With the Theater an der Ruhr, where he worked as an actor for five years under Roberto Ciulli, he also performed in Bogotá, Istanbul, Cairo, Sarajevo and Tehran.

In 2008 he founded the publishing house Edition Galata. In 2001 he had already transferred the novel messenger child murders by Perihan Mağden into German. Further translations by Aslı Erdoğan Der miraculous Mandarin and Ahmet Ümit Patasana followed, published by "Edition Galata". Other translations were the narrative book Waiting for Fear (Korkuyu beklerken) by Oğuz Atay and the novel The Lung Rhythm (Aksak ritim) by Gaye Boralıoğlu. Both books have been published by Binooki Verlag. Most recently he translated the novel Madonna's Last Dream (Madonna'nın Son Hayali) by Doğan Akhanlı. The book was published by Sujet-Verlag in 2019.

Hallaç also appeared as a recitator and had minor roles in the film. In 2006 he spoke the tea cook from Pamuk’s snow for a radio play version of the NDR and the Deutschlandradio. Authors such as Orhan Pamuk or Ahmet Ümit also accompanied Hallaç on readings as a translator.

Audio
Is Turkey still a democracy? The author Recai Hallac in conversation Deutschlandfunk 24. January 2016 "Cultural issues" 25.06 minutes (1/2 year online) Text version Is Turkey still a democracy? Recai Hallac in conversation with Martin Gerner

See also:
German-Turkish literature
List of German-Turkish writers

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Theatre actors
Radio play actors
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Translator from Turkish
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Born in 1962
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