Hêja Netirk is a Hamburg-based Kurdish singer/songwriter actress, lyricist, and dramaturg.

Coming from a literary background, Hêja is concerned with migration and integration policies in Germany, decolonization and women’s oppression as well as performance and its relation to Kurdish history and society. Central to her artistic practice is her experience as a woman in exile, which she presents in various forms of art – singing, acting, and film.

She was a Fulbright scholar for the Master’s program in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was unable to use her scholarship because she was imprisoned in Turkey…