Gabriela Zapolska

Gabriela Zapolska, also Gabryela Zapolska ( born March 30, 1857 in Podhajce at Luck (now Ukraine ), † December 17, 1921 in Lviv ), actually Maria Korwin- Piotrowska, was a Polish writer.

Life

Zapolska was the daughter of a wealthy landowner who, joined against the wishes of her parents, 1879 a traveling troupe of actors. She has appeared in many Polish cities and guested 1890-1895 in Paris. In 1902, she founded a drama school in Krakow, they also conducted some years. They also made ​​a name for himself as a theater critic.

As a leading representative of Polish naturalism she was also influenced by Émile Zola and especially criticized in her novels the position of women in society. A part of her work she wrote under the pseudonyms Józef Maskoff and Valery Tomicki. Are especially important to prominence when she plays, her most important, the tragicomedy Moralność pani Dulskiej ( The moral of the woman Dulski ) from 1906 is played frequently today.

Works (selection)

Prose

  • Kaśka Kariatyda, 1887 - German: Käthe, the caryatid, Leipzig 1902 and Kathe. The novel of a maid, Berlin 1924; German edition 1924 ( DjVu format)
  • Przedpiekle, 1889 - German: Hell of virgins, Berlin 1924
  • Menażeria ludzka - German: The Human Menagerie, 1893 ( polona.pl )
  • Wodzirej, 1896 - German: aristocrats, Berlin 1924, Volume 1 (PDF)
  • Sezonowa miłość, 1905 - German: Summer love, Berlin 1915 (ISBN 978-3-7175-2152-5, Manesseplatz -Verlag 2008)
  • Pan policmajster Tagiejew, 1905 - German: The chief of police. A Russian police novel, Berlin 1914
  • Córka Tuski, 1907
  • O czym never się Mowi, 1909 - German: What you do not speak, Berlin 1924
  • Szalenstwo - German: Mrs Rena's marriage, Berlin 1913
  • Kobieta bez skazy, 1913 - German: The unspoiled woman, Berlin 1920
  • O czym się nawet myśleć never chce, 1914 - German: How can you hate to think, Berlin 1924
  • Janka, 1921
  • Frania Poranek. Jej Dalsze Losy, 1922
  • Z pamiętników młodej mężatki, 1923
  • Fin -de- siecle'istka
  • Zaszumi read
  • Rajski ptak ( Bird of Paradise )

A nine -volume edition of her novels was published in 1924 by the Berlin publishing Oesterheld & Co., which attests to their enormous popularity in Germany.

Dramatic works

  • Żabusia, Comedy, 1897 - German: The little toad, Berlin 1956
  • Jesiennym wieczorem, 1905
  • Moralność pani Dulskiej, Comedy, 1906 - German: The Morality of Mrs. Dulski. A bourgeois comedy in 3 acts, Vienna 1912 ( polona.pl )
  • I czworo, 1907 - German: stupidity square, Berlin 1956
  • Panna Maliczewska, 1912 - German: The girlfriend, Berlin 1912 or Miss Maliczewska, Berlin 1956
  • Sketches
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