Day 51b. Lectures d'Adèle Haenel, pour la libération d'Asli Erdogan (2016)

Lectures d'Adèle Haenel, pour la libération d'Asli Erdogan (2016)

 

This reading from the works of Asli Erdogan is not a theatre performance, but rather it is Adèle using her performing talents, and her profile, in a political act.  Much of Adèle's work in the theatre, and particularly her work with Theatre de l'Argument, has had a real political edge to it.  I've included information about this event here because I thought it would be of interest to you, and to highlight Adèle's political efforts and the cause that she chose to support.

English Title

     Adèle Haenel reads for the Freedom of Asli Erdoğan

Author

     Asli Erdoğan

Year

     19 December 2016

Form

     Book reading

Director
     Basile Lemair
Staged

     Televised by Telerama Live

Synopsis

“With Adèle Haenel, ask for the release of Asli Erdogan

     Imprisoned in Istanbul since August, the writer and journalist d'Asli Asli Erdoğan risks life imprisonment for speaking out against the oppression of the Turkish regime. To show her solidarity, “Télérama asked actress Adèle Haenel to read a selection of texts by the writer, whose trial will take place on December 29 (2016).”

https://www.telerama.fr/livre/en-direct-avec-adele-haenel-demandons-la-liberation-d-asli-erdogan,151612.php

19 December 2016

Adèle’s role

     Reader.

Notes

     This is not quite theatre, but seems to be theatre-adjacent, that is, it is reading and a very political act, so I thought that I would include some information about it here.

Some background: Asli Erdoğan (no relation to the president with the same last name) is Turkish writer and journalist who denounced torture, the oppression of the Kurds, violence against women, and living conditions in Turkish prisons. She was arrested in August 2016 and was held for 132 days in pre-trial detention. She was acquitted of all charges in 2020.
Below are links to articles with more information on this writer and her detention.

Related articles for background reading

19 December 2016

With Adèle Haenel, ask for the release of Asli Erdogan

https://www.telerama.fr/livre/en-direct-avec-adele-haenel-demandons-la-liberation-d-asli-erdogan,151612.php

22 November 2016

Turkey: novelist Asli Erdogan remains in prison

“Repression of Kurds, violence against women, torture ... Because she has always spoken out against all oppression, the Turkish writer and journalist Asli Erdogan risks life imprisonment. Rereading her work today, one is struck by its premonitory power.”

https://www.telerama.fr/livre/turquie-la-romanciere-asli-erdogan-emprisonnee-mais-pas-emmuree,150482.php

22 December 2016

Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan's detention 'breaches convention on human rights'

The novelist’s pre-trial imprisonment on terror charges has been condemned by lawyers and academics, who say there are no grounds for this extreme measure.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/22/turkish-author-asl-erdogans-detention-breaches-convention-on-human-rights

30 December 2019

'They throw you into a hole': celebrated Turkish novelist reveals detention ordeal’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/30/turkish-novelist-asli-erdogan-reveals-detention-ordeal

20 February 2020

Turkish writer Asli Erdogan acquitted of terrorism charges

“Asli Erdogan was arrested on August 2016 and accused of "terror propaganda" and of "undermining national unity." She has lived in a self-imposed exile in Europe since she was allowed to leave Turkey in 2017.”

https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-writer-asli-erdogan-acquitted-of-terrorism-charges/a-52377559

Images

We can see that Adèle is wearing an ACT-UP windcheater; another political act.