Author: Feridun Zaimoglu (Turkey 1964)
Genre: Radio play
Production: DLR/SDR 1997
Director: Götz Naleppa
Music: Da Crime Posse
Length: 52 min.
Sound and technology: Andreas Narr

Contributors:
Rap: Ali Aksoy, Ole Peter Jeß
Voices: Aykut Kayacik, Mürtüz Yolcu, Hasan Ali Mete, Feridun Zaimoglu, a.o.
Saz: Michael Rodach

Content:
How does one live, how does one feel as a Kanake in Germany? For decades, the term "Kanake" was used to indicate the social position of Turks living here. Now the children of immigrants have adopted the pejorative label for themselves and neutralised its connotation. "Kanake", a name young second and third generation Turks use with proud defiance. Zaimoglu has literarily adapted the wild and radically authentic confessions of young men of Turkish descent. Their "Kanak Sprak", a mixture of native dialects and street German, blends with all its harshness and poetry to create a shrill, anarchic canon from the fringes of society.
"kanake there, kanake there, wherever you go...as if you had a lump of cancer in the middle of your face and were entangled in such loops of air, whirled away by everyone and everything..."

Published by Der Audio Verlag DAV as a CD.