EREN M. GÜVERCIN DOESN’T QUESTION WHY HE CHOSE TO PURSUE ACTING AS A CAREER – HE PREFERS TO PURELY FOLLOW HIS INSTINCTS. THE 22-YEAR-OLD BERLINER HAS ALREADY TWO BIG PROJECTS UNDER HIS BELT: A COMING-OF-AGE TV SERIES DRUCK AND ELDORADO: EVERYTHING THE NAZIS HATE – A POWERFUL NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING BERLIN’S FLOURISHING QUEER SCENE OF THE 1920S AND 1930S, AND ITS DESTRUCTION THROUGHOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR. FOR BTB, EREN TALKS ABOUT WAYS IN WHICH BEING ON SET CONNECTS HIM WITH HIS CHILDHOOD SELF AND THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING OUR HISTORY.

Left Full look **Louis Vuitton**
Right Full look **Celine Homme**

You got your first big role on the German TV show Druck. How do you look back on the series and your character?

I don't know if I can look back on it because it still haunts me to this day – I mean that in a good way. The love I received from all the fans, who were already excited about the new season and still follow my work, was unbelievable and overwhelming. Especially because it was also my first project in front of the camera. But that also came with its challenges, which I can now manage better, so I can focus solely on my work and forget everything else.

You also participated in the production of the brilliant documentary Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate. How did this project come your way, and why was it important for you to be a part of it?

What the directors of that movie, Benjamin Cantu and Matt Lambert, created was not only a radical and beautifully honest depiction of the truth they meticulously analysed to create. I consider this film to be one of the most important I’ve seen in a while, both artistically and politically, especially in times when the intersection of discriminatory acts is increasingly blinded by the populism used by ascending right-wing parties like the AfD. The parallels in the rhetoric and political strategies between Nazi Germany and the AfD are frightening and, at the same time, important to recognize. We need to know our history so it doesn’t repeat itself.

Left Full look **Ludovic De Saint Sernin**
Right Full look **Louis Vuitton**

When did you first realise that acting was something you wanted to pursue? What influenced your decision?

I’ve never intentionally pursued it. I was kinda dragged along that path while having fun working in theatre as a kid, how I came about that is kind of a complicated story. I can only recall moments in my life, during rehearsals or on stage, where I felt something almost metaphysical. Maybe a bit esoteric but it's about the fun and the people. Being a little kid. And going beyond my limits. To stay and breathe in the discomfort, maybe. Never really thinking about why I am doing this that much.

Who are the actors you look up to the most, and why them?

Tough question. I'm a Henry Fonda fan and even more so of Tilda Swinton. But right now, I’m fangirling over Lamin Leroy Gibba and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Oh, and I have to mention Michaela Coel. There’s something about their urgency to tell a story in such an honest and captivating way, coming from a place of love and fragility. It’s culture.