Akin has been married to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermüller since 2004. The couple live in Hamburg-Altona, close to where he was raised.[4] They have two children.[5]
Career
Akin made his debut as director of a full-length film as early as 1998 with Short Sharp Shock(Kurz und schmerzlos), which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed feature films such as In July (Im Juli) in 2000, We forgot to go back (Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren) in 2001 and Solino' in 2002.
About the comedy Soul Kitchen (2009) he has said he chose this more light-hearted film because he needed a break after making the "tough" films Head-On and The Edge of Heaven before making his next planned film The Devil. "But", he says, "now I feel ready to finish the trilogy".[9]
^Çağla Karabağ, "Intercultural Encounters in Fatih Akın's Films" in Klaus Roth, Robert Hayden (ed.), Migration In, From, and to Southeastern Europe: Part 1: Historical and Cultural Aspects, Ethnologia Balcanica 13, LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-10895-1, p. 181.
^Kulish, Nicholas (6 January 2008). "A hand that links Germans and Turks". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^"Head-On". Golden Apricot International Film Festival. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
^"Director's Portrait: Fatih Akın – The sun is as much mine as the night". www.german-films.de. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^"Fatih Akin: Der Regisseur des Rauen".
^"Festival de Cannes: The Edge of Heaven". www.festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
^"Film about abortion takes Cannes' prize". Guardian Unlimited. London. 27 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 December 2013.
^"And the LUX Prize for European cinema goes to… "Auf der anderen Seite" ("On the Edge of Heaven")". European Parliament. 24 October 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^"2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
^"Polluting Paradise: Cannes Review". Hollywood Reporter. 19 May 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
^"International competition of feature films". Venice. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
^"Venice Film Festival Lineup Announced". Deadline. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
^"The 2017 Official Selection". Cannes. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^"2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, 'Twin Peaks' and More". IndieWire. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^Debruge, Peter (28 May 2017). "2017 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners Announced". Variety. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
^Mitchell, Robert (24 August 2017). "Fatih Akin's 'In the Fade' Selected as German Oscar Entry". Variety. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
^Pond, Steve (14 December 2017). "Oscars Foreign Language Shortlist Includes 'The Square,' 'A Fantastic Woman'". The Wrap. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
^"In the Fade (Aus Dem Nichts) (2017)". Golden Globes. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
^"Bayerischer Filmpreis: Promis und Porzellan". Max (German magazine) (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^"Orden für Riemann und Akin". BZ Berlin (in German). 4 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
^Goodfellow, Melanie (22 April 2024). "Fatih Akin's 1945 Drama 'Amrum' Kicks Off Principal Photography With Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke & Diane Kruger". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
Bibliography
Barbara Kosta, "Transcultural Exchanges: Fatih Akin's Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)," in Martinson, Steven D. / Schulz, Renate A. (Eds./hg.), Transcultural German Studies / Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Building Bridges / Brücken bauen (Bern etc., Peter Lang, 2008) (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A: Kongressberichte, 94),
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fatih Akın.
Fatih Akin at IMDb
Fatih Akin Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
Rocking Istanbul A talk with Daniel Bax on the film "Crossing the Bridge", tour guides and Vikings, music divas and the responsibilities of critical acclaim at signandsight.com