Bio
Kadir Özdemir is an author, theatre maker, and political educator. After studying Modern History and Sociology, Kadir Özdemir has been working for over 20 years in the fields of migration, participation, intersectionality, and empowerment. He is a founding member of the Postmig Writers Collective, Prisma Queer Migrants e.V., and Migrationserb:innen. In 2022, he served as a writer-in-residence for the Aachen region at the Ludwig Forum for International Art and Heinrich-Böll-Haus. In the same year, he was selected by the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel in the field of literature. In 2023, he implemented a literary project on the new peace movement in Japan (Hiroshima and Osaka). He has published in numerous anthologies and contributed columns. Since 2023, he has been the director of the collecting:dreams festival.