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Erol Yesilkaya (born Juny 6, 1976 in Istanbul) is a Turkish-German screenwriter.

Erol Yesilkaya
Yesilkaya with Sebastian Marka at the Grimme-Preis 2019
Born (1976-06-06) 6 June 1976 (age 46)
Istanbul, Turkey
Occupationscreenwriter
Years active2008–present

Life and work


Erol Yesilkaya was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1976 and then moved with his parents to Krefeld, where he grew up. After he finished the Gymnasium and received his Abitur, Yesilkaya worked as a location manager. Then he studied Modern German Literature and Media Studies at the University of Marburg. During his studies, Yesilkaya was involved in many film and cultural projects as a promoter, organizer or projectionist and filmed various short film scripts, many of which were his own works.[1]

After successfully completing his studies in Marburg in 2004, Yesilkaya moved to Hamburg, where he wrote his first screenplay. Since 2008 Yesilkaya lives and works in Berlin. There, he is part of a authors' collective named Schreibkombinat Kurt Klinke.[2] As a member of the collective, Yesilkaya has written various episodes for police crime drama series such as Tatort among others.[3] In addition, he has also written screenplays for popular drama and television series such as Dogs of Berlin, Sløborn, Hausen and Notruf Hafenkante.

The Tatort episodes, which were made in collaboration with the German film director Sebastian Marka were almost all praised by the German press and received good IMDb ratings. In addition, some of the crime scene episodes for which Yesilkaya wrote the scripts won German and international awards. For example, the Tatort - episodes Die Wahrheit and Long Live Death (Es lebe der Tod) were nominated for the German Television Crime Award in 2017 and the episode Das Nest in 2020. The Tatort-episode Long Live Death had its international premiere at the Austin Film Festival in 2016, where Yesilkaya was nominated for an audience award. It was also screened at the Garden State Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival. Then, Yesilkaya and Marka were nominated for the prestigious German Grimme Award (Grimme-Preis) in 2017 for their Tatort - episode Die Wahrheit. They received it two years later for their Tatort-episode Meta.

Yesilkaya and Marka had met in 2012 and worked together nine times so far. In an interview with the German trade magazine Blickpunkt:Film, Marka compares their cooperation to the "showrunner - principle". During the process of making a film, from idea development to film editing, Yesilkaya and Marka would be in constant exchange of information to achieve a good result.[4]

On October 20, 2020, the dystopian TV - Science fiction film Exit was broadcast on the nationwide German television channel Das Erste. For the film, Yesilkaya wrote the script and Marka directed again. It is set in the year 2047 and addresses the dimension and impact of artificial intelligence and digital life. The German film critic Arno Frank of Spiegel Online said, that a "perfectly formed dystopia like "Exit" [...] has not yet been seen on public television" in Germany. (Eine formvollendete Dystopie wie "Exit" [...] hat man bei den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen noch nicht gesehen.)[5]

It was announced in the press on February 2, 2021, that Marka and Yesilkaya are to film the German fantasy novel - bestseller The Gryphon (Der Greif, 1989) by Wolfgang Hohlbein as a series for Amazon Prime Video.[6] The Gryphon is scheduled for release in 2023.[7]


Filmography



Awards and nominations


Austin Film Festival 2016

Grimme-Preis 2017

Grimme-Preis 2019


References


  1. "Vom Marburger Studenten ... ... zum Drehbuchautor für den "Tatort"" (PDF). UniJournal (in German). 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  2. "Schreibkombinat Kurt Klinke - Das Autorenkollektiv - Das Autorenkollektiv im Grespräch mit Stichwort Drehbuch". Verband Deutscher Drehbuchautoren e.V. (VDD) (in German). July 31, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  3. Short Biography about Erol Yesilkaya on the Grimme-Preis-website (In German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  4. Heine, Frank (October 28, 2020). "Yesilkaya/Marka: Nach dem Showrunner-Prinzip". Blickpunkt:Film (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  5. Frank, Arno (October 28, 2020). "Monopol auf die Realität - Sci-Fi-Drama in der ARD". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  6. Kanter, Jake (February 2, 2021). "Amazon Doubles Down On German Originals; Orders Series Based On Wolfgang Hohlbein's 'The Gryphon' From 'Dark' Producer W&B Television". Deadline. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  7. Krei, Alexander (November 9, 2021). "Dreharbeiten gestartet: "Der Greif" kommt 2023 zu Amazon - Hohlbein-Roman wird zur Serie". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved December 30, 2021.




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