Recai Hallaç is a German-Turkish director, actor, reciter and literary translator from Turkish. In Germany, he first worked as an editor, speaker and actor for ARD, especially WDR and Deutsche Welle. His own theater projects took him to Austria and Cyprus. With the Theater an der Ruhr, where he previously worked as an actor under Roberto Ciulli for half a decade, he also performed in Bogota, Istanbul, Cairo, Sarajevo and Tehran. In 2008, he founded the Berlin-based publishing house Edition Galata, for which he translated Aslı Erdoğan’s novella Der wundersame Mandarin and Ahmet Ümit’s novel Patasana into German. Hallaç also works as a reciter. In 2006, he voiced the tea cook from Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow for a radio play version by NDR and Deutschlandradio.