By Tuncay Yıldırım
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The painter Gönül Şen Menzel, known in Cologne for her artistic work, was bid farewell on her final journey last week by the people who loved her, in the studio where she had died unexpectedly.
Around 200 Turks and Germans attended the memorial ceremony for Gönül Şen Menzel in her studio in the Cologne district of Volkhoven. Her close friend Mine Selen, former member of the Bundestag Lale Akgün, Chorweiler district mayor Cornelie Wittsack-Junge and Prof. Dr. Zehra İpşiroğlu said in their speeches that the artist would live on in people’s hearts.
The guests were moved by a conversation about poetry that Gönül Şen-Menzel had held seven years earlier with WDR’s Turkish-language program during a meeting in her studio, which was played at the ceremony.
The report appeared in the European edition of the daily newspaper Sabah on April 16, 2014. Translated from Turkish for senmenzel.com.
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