Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk ( born September 25, 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish author, journalist and literary critic.

Life

Stasiuk grew up in Grochów district in Warsaw's Praga district Południe on. By his own account, he was expelled from school and was active in the early eighties in the Polish pacifist opposition movement Ruch Wolność i Pokój. After he had deserted during his military service, he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. Stasiuk now lives in Wołowiec in the Low Beskids.

Work

The prison experiences he compacted in his debut work, the short story collection Mury Hebronu (1992 ) (Engl. The Walls of Hebron ) (2003 ), a work that violent reactions among the Polish public excited because of his true dramatic, literary but extremely appealing prose and Stasiuk made overnight to a famous man. One of his role models was one Stasiuk in a conversation with Stanislaw Beres inter alia WH Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Brodsky, as well as Oscar and Czeslaw Milosz. In 1995 he published his novel Bialy kruk (Eng. The White Raven, 1998), which was filmed as Gnoje in the same year by the director Jerzy Zalewski. Stasiuk himself played a minor role with. In Germany Stasiuk became known after a translation of his narrative tape Dukla (1997), The German world behind Dukla, in 2000, had appeared.

For years Stasiuk writes reviews and essays for the largest Polish daily newspapers, Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, but also for the L'espresso and the German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Lettre International. His works, which he publishes in the operated jointly with his wife Monika Sznajderman Publishing Wydawnictwo Czarne since the mid- 90s, have been translated into numerous languages. 2002 Andrzej Stasiuk was awarded the Samuel Bogumil Linde price. His work Jadąc do Babadag (2004) with travel sketches was awarded on October 2, 2005 with the Nike Prize as the best Polish Book of the Year. It was released in the summer of 2005 in German translation. 2006 Opowieści galicyjskie (German Galician Stories ) by Dariusz Jabłoński under the title Wino truskawkowe were filmed.

One of his recurring themes is the ratio of the Polish people to its neighbors, which he summed up succinctly in the following sentence: "To be poles, ie, the last man to be east of the Rhine. Because for a Poland the Germans are like well-designed machines, robots; The Russians, however, are a bit like animals. sarcastic narrator " with clichés in the mutual perception of Poles and Germans dealing ( " Mystery of the German soul " ) " In 2008, the German edition of the satirical travelogue Dojczland in which he called himself appeared. "

Works

  • Mury Hebronu. ( Opowiadania ). Wydawnictwo Głodnych duchow, Warszawa 1992, ISBN 83-85244-09-3 ( German: . The Walls of Hebron Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN (Edition Suhrkamp 2302 ) )
  • Wiersze i never miłosne. Wydawnictwo obserwator, Poznań 1994, ISBN 83-901720 -2-X ( Biblioteka Czasu Kultury 7).
  • Bialy kruk. ( Powieść ). Wydawnictwo obserwator, Poznań 1995, ISBN 83-901720-5-4 ( Biblioteka Czasu Kultury 10), ( German: The White Raven novel Rowohlt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87134-282-3. . ).
  • Opowieści galicyjskie. ( Opowiadania ). Znak, Kraków 1995, ISBN 83-7006-554-6 ( German: Galician stories Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-41370-8. ).
  • Przez rzekę. ( Opowiadania ). Wydawnictwo Czarne, among others Gładyszów 1996, ISBN 83-86744-54-5 ( German: .. Across the river narratives Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12390-4 (Edition Suhrkamp 2390 ) ).
  • Dukla. ( Opowiadania ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 1997, ISBN 83-87391-05-0 ( German: ., The world behind Dukla novel Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-41205-1. ).
  • Dwie sztuki ( telewizyjne ) o śmierci. Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 1998, ISBN 83-87391-06-9.
  • Jak zostałem pisarzem ( próba biografii intelektualnej ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 1998, ISBN 83-87391-08-5 ( German: How I became a writer attempt to make intellectual autobiography Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-12236-3 (Edition Suhrkamp 2236 ). . ).
  • Dziewięć. ( Powieść ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 1999, ISBN 83-87391-17-4 ( German: . Nine novel Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-41326-0. ).
  • Moja Europe. Dwa eseje o Europie zwanej Srodkowa. ( WRAZ z Yuri Andruchowiczem ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 2000, ISBN 83-87391-27-1 ( Europe Środkowa ) ( German: My Europe Two essays on the so-called Central Europe (along with Yuri Andruchowytsch ) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518 -. .. 12370 -X, (Edition Suhrkamp 2370 ) ).
  • Tekturowy samolot. ( Szkice ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 2000, ISBN 83-87391-29-8 ( German: The plane of cardboard essays, sketches, short prose Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41610-3. . ).
  • Opowieści wigilijne. ( Together with Olga Tokarczuk and Jerzy Pilch ). Wydawnictwo Ruta et al Wałbrzych eg in 2000, ISBN 83-87391-31- X.
  • Zima. Wydawnictwo Czarne Gładyszów 2001, ISBN 83-87391-43-3 ( German: .. Winter five stories Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-19322-7 ( Island Library 1322) ).
  • Jadąc do Babadag. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2004, ISBN 83-87391-97-2 ( German: On the Road to Babadag Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41727-4. ).
  • Noc. Słowiańsko - germańska tragifarsa Medyczna. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2005, ISBN 83-89755-21-1 ( Mala Seria ).
  • Fado. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2006, ISBN 83-89755-75-0 ( German: .. Fado travel sketches Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12527-4 (Edition Suhrkamp 2527 ) ).
  • Dojczland. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2007, ISBN 978-83-7536-005-9 ( German: . Dojczland Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12566-3 (Edition Suhrkamp 2566 ) )
  • Czekając na Turka. = Waiting for the Turks. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2009, ISBN 978-83-7536-072-1 ( Mala Seria ).
  • Taksim. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2009, ISBN 978-83-7536-116-2 ( German: Behind the sheet metal wall Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42254-0. ).
  • Jak zostałem pisarzem ( próba autobiografii intelektualnej ). Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec 2011, ISBN 978-83-7536-264-0.
  • Grochów. Wydawnictwo Czarne Wołowiec, 2012. German: short book about dying, from the Polish by Renate Schmidgall, Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46421-2.

Adaptations

  • Night. Director: Robert Matejka, Translator: Olaf Kühl, Contributors: Peter Striebeck, Roman Knizka, Catherine Burowa, Andrzej Stasiuk, Matthias Habich, 63 minutes DLR / NDR / SR 2005.

Awards

  • 2005 Nike Prize for the best Polish Book of the Year Jadąc do Babadag (En Route to Babadag )
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