Lydia Waleryszak
Polish → French
Born in France, she studied Polish philology at Charles-de-Gaulle University Lille III, where she defended a doctoral thesis in translation studies and lectured between…
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Marta Kijowska
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e-mail: marta.j.kijowska@gmail.com
About me
I am a journalist, columnist and literary translator, born in 1955 in Kraków and for many years resident in Munich. I collaborate with numerous German publishers and media — currently mainly with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), formerly with Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Die ZEIT, FOCUS and the broadcasters BR, SWR, DLF and WDR. In my journalistic work I focus primarily on Polish literature, culture and history. After studying German studies in Kraków and Munich I worked, among other positions, as a lecturer in Polish at Ludwig Maximilians Universität München and in a special role at the Goethe Institut in Warsaw. From 1987–1991 and in 1997/98 I was an editor of Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon. I have written numerous articles on Polish writers for that lexicon and other collective works.
Translations
- Zofia Chądzyńska: Maria oder Die herbstlichen Augenblicke, St. Gabriel 1988.
- Zofia Chądzyńska: Mein Sohn Michael, St. Gabriel 1989.
- Sławomir Mrożek: Balthasar. Autobiographie. Diogenes 2007.
- Sławomir Mrożek: Karneval oder Adams erste Frau, Diogenes 2014.
- Stefan Chwin: Ein deutsches Tagebuch, edition foto.TAPETA 2015.
- Andrzej Bart: Standing Ovation /maszynopis/.
- Dominik W. Rettinger: Die Klasse, Zsolnay 2017.
- Maria Nurowska: Briefe aus Katyn, Ebersbach & Simon 2020.
- Seweryna Szmaglewska: Die Frauen von Birkenau, Schöffling 2020 //.
- Zofia Nałkowska: Medaillons, Schöffling 2021 /translation and afterword/.
- Seweryna Szmaglewska: Die Unschuldigen in Nürnberg, Schöffling 2022.
- Zuzanna Kisielewska: Von Carpe Diem bis Post Scriptum, Hanser 2023.
- Zofia Nałkowska: Bergvögel, Dörlemann 2026 /translation and afterword/.
- Władysław Reymont: Das gelobte Land, Aufbau 2026 /co-translation and afterword/.
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