Çağlar Tanyeri was born in Istanbul in 1960. After graduating from Austrian school, she studied German language and literature at Istanbul University. This was followed by a master's degree in 1989 and a doctorate in 2003 with the title “Understanding and Translation Processes of the Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss”. At the same time, she translated this novel by Weiss into Turkish. It was published in translation in 2005. Çağlar Tanyeri taught German and Turkish literature, cultural history, literary and translation criticism at Istanbul University and Okan University from 1986 to 2012 and translated German-language literature into Turkish alongside her academic work. She has been working as a freelance translator of literary, philosophical and academic texts since 2012. These include works by Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud and Herta Müller.

Çağlar Tanyeri was awarded the residency fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bamberg by Bavarian State Minister Markus Blume at the suggestion of the Villa Concordia literary fellowship board members Tanja Graf, Director of the Literaturhaus München, and Dr. Wolf Iro, Goethe Institut e.V.. She will work in Bamberg from mid-April to March 2026. 

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