Paweł Huelle

Paweł Case ( born September 10, 1957 in Gdańsk ) is a Polish writer.

Biography

After studying literature at the University of Gdansk, he worked as a journalist. From 1980 to ban the Solidarność 1981, he worked in the press office. He was also a teacher of literature, philosophy and history. After the political changes in Poland in the 1990s, he was briefly director of the Third Polish Television in Gdansk.

Weiser

As a writer, he immediately set out with his first novel Weiser a name. The book was hailed by the Polish critics as a masterpiece and most important work of the 80s. It has been translated into many languages ​​and filmed by Wojciech Marczewski in 2000.

" Is not it very simply that the author has placed in the figure Dawid Weiser, as in a box, all those longings of Poland. Fleeing stupidity, tyranny, terror of the collective And on the other side: wisdom, effectiveness? quality and a peculiar sense of humor, we can recognize the traits of the Jewish genius, in this work - expelled from Poland -. us today pushes open the stamp of a certain inadequacy and defectiveness But this is only one of many possible interpretations with which we do not approach our fears incurable and insatiable needs. If so, then we finally have everyone, everywhere in search of Dawid Weiser. "

Literary context

Similar to Günter Grass and his colleague Stefan Danziger Chwin his stories revolve mainly around the city of Gdansk, their history and their inhabitants. He manages a continuity of German history to the Polish history of Gdansk, without political animosities produce. Together with Cezary Harasimowicz and Klaus Richter, he wrote the screenplay for Robert Glinski 2005 doomsday predictions - a time of reconciliation, the film adaptation of Günter Grass novel.

Prizes and awards

1997 Paweł Case has been nominated for the important Polish literary award Nike. He was awarded the Samuel Bogumil Linde Award 2005.

Works

• Weiser, 1987 (Eng. 1992)
• Snails, puddles, rain, and other stories from Gdansk, 1996
• Silver Rain, 2000
• Missing Chapter, 2002
• Mercedes -Benz, 2003
• Castorp, 2004 In Castorp Case refers to the literary figure Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and tells the story of Hans Castorp students in Gdansk, which is told in The Magic Mountain explicitly. There it only to say that ... then he had four semesters of study at the Gdansk Polytechnic behind ...