Andrzej Stasiuk

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Andrzej Stasiuk (2008)

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

Life

Stasiuk grew up in Grochów, a district in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district . According to his own statements, due to absence and lack of interest, he was initially expelled from the grammar school and then from the technical and general vocational school. In his youth he preferred to spend the time with his friends on the street, but also devoted himself seriously to the self-taught study of various literature, among others. a. Allen Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas (Bereś, 2002).

In 1979 he was drafted into the army and used as a sapper in the 4th unit of the Kołobrzeski Batalion in Dębica near Kraków . About this time he wrote:

A fantastic unit. Imagine, summer exercises, tanned like black people, with mighty biceps, built bridges in waist-deep water and eaten fourfold portions of food. You don't get that in the civil world.

Shortly before the end of his military service, however, Stasiuk was transferred to Rzeszów . He found the conditions there to be disheartening and brutal, so that during an outing on New Year's Eve 1979/80 he decided to desert out of indifference and boredom and not out of pacifist convictions. For this reason, he was sentenced to one and a half years in a military prison, which he was supposed to serve in a special penal company, which, according to him, was twice as bad as the army in Rzeszów. So he and his fellow inmates decided to start an uprising, which consisted of shaving off all hair on their entire body, to go on a hunger strike and to throw away their machine guns, which were inoperable anyway. The consequence of this was that he was sent to a remand prison for five months and finally transferred to a civilian prison in Stargard , where he served the rest of his sentence (Bereś, 2002).

After his release, Stasiuk did simple temporary work, but in the mid-1980s he was also involved in the Polish pacifist opposition movement " Ruch Wolność i Pokój " (German Freedom and Peace Movement ). In 1986 he left his hometown Warsaw and moved to the countryside, to the village of Czarne , in the Lower Beskids on the border with Slovakia (Bereś, 2002). Here he wrote his debut novel Mury Hebronu (German Die Wauern von Hebron , 2003) in just two weeks in 1992 . According to his own statements, he did not earn any money and his friend, who published the book with his publisher, went bankrupt.

In 1999 Stasiuk married his wife Monika Sznajderman , a cultural anthropologist , with whom he has a daughter, Antonina (* 1990). In 1996 the couple founded the publishing house “Czarne”, a homage to their adopted home, but also the Polish word for “black”. The publisher concentrates primarily on publications by Central Eastern European writers, but they also published an anthology by the Polish writer Zygmunt Haupt (1907–1975), who emigrated to the USA and who is typically considered a master of literary reportage and who also wrote about ancient Galicia .

Stasiuk, who claims to want to withdraw from the capitalist world, has no mobile phone and despises the lurid billboards in the big cities. In a conversation with Stanisław Bereś , u. a. Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Brodsky , WH Auden , as well as Oskar and Czesław Miłosz . Stasiuk continues to devote himself to his second great passion, traveling to southern Europe and the Far East, and has now moved with his family to nearby Wołowiec in order to better take care of the publisher's concerns.

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Even before its first official publication, Stasiuk was active and wrote articles (including Pani A. , Spocony anioł , Pudło and Prison is hell ) for the anarchist magazine series " Biblioteka A cappelli ", the Polish pacifist opposition movement " Ruch Wolność i Pokój ". Stasiuk's essay Prison is Hell (1988), for example, is a detailed and disturbing account of the conditions in the prison, its inmates and their self-image. In it he describes in extravagant and almost poetic poetry, the ideological meaning of the tattoos, the hierarchy and rules within a group and the social rank of a "cwel", who occupies the lowest place in the prison hierarchy and is abused for sexual favors . In doing so, he questions the intention of the system for rehabilitation by opposing it with the complete isolation and isolation of the inmates. As a ray of hope and the greatest distraction among the prisoners, he portrays the shared stories.

He gained public attention through his first official work, the volume of short stories Mury Hebronu (Eng . The Walls of Hebron , 2003), which he wrote in 1985/86, but which was only published in 1992 by the publishing house “Wydawnictwo Głodnych Duchów”. As with Prison is hell , he draws on the experiences during his stay in prison and brings the innocent population, the unadorned and unheard reality of the prison inmates into the living room at home. Through his abstract and metaphysical language, he formats everyday prison life for an existential confrontation with oneself. This characteristic approach laid the foundation for all of his work.

In his novel Biały Kruk (Eng. The White Raven , 1998), published in 1995, he continued this characteristic writing style, but was also inspired by his homeland, the Lower Beskids and the landscape there. The novel is about five, meanwhile grown up childhood friends from post-communist Warsaw , who, bored, break out of their monotonous and disillusioned everyday life to experience adventure and search for the true meaning of life. Each of the young men has their own idea of ​​the journey that takes them, paved by countless vodka bottles and cigarettes, to the author's homeland . The reader accompanies the protagonists through the cold and snow-covered landscapes of the Lower Beskids , but also witnesses nostalgic and sentimental memories of childhood and youth in communist Warsaw, where one wonders whether these are the thoughts of the friends or those of the author. Stasiuk uses a masculine and sometimes vulgar language and lets the ideals from the youth of men confront today's reality. The film Gnoje (1995), by the director Jerzy Zalewski , was based on this book and Stasiuk took on a short extras.

In the same year Stasiuk published the story collection Opowieści galicyjskie (dt. Galician Stories , 2002), which the director Dariusz Jablonski , 2008 under the name Wino Truskawkowe (dt. Strawberry wine ), filmed. It consists of 15 short stories and narratives that describe the life of the inhabitants of an area around southeast Poland. Here, the influences of the Lower Beskids become clear, as before in Biały Kruk , or Dukla (1997), named after a nearby small town, which appeared in Germany in 2000 under the title Die Welt hinter Dukla , and so did Stasiuk brought attention in this country.

His 2004 collection brought out of travelogues through Southern Eastern Europe, Jadąc do Babadag (dt. On the way to Babadag , 2005), was the most important Polish literary award in October 2005 Nike excellent. It contains fourteen travelogues, u. a. through Slovakia , Hungary , Romania , the Republic of Moldova , Ukraine and Albania , which Stasiuk himself traveled. He does not take the position of a tourist, but that of an observer and describes common places with a loving, yet sharp and unadulterated look. The essay Dojczland (Eng. Dojczland , 2008), published in 2007, again takes the perspective of a traveler and this time describes the reading trip of a Polish writer through Germany, who can only endure this trip with alcohol and is in contact with the locals, except for his readers. refused.

In 2007, Mikołaj Trzaska's album Kantry was released , on which dictaphone recordings from Stasiuk and Trzaska's journey through former Yugoslavia can be heard. These are embedded in the quiet jazz play of Trzaska and his band.

The special thing about Stasiuk's works is the loving and detailed description of nature, supposedly ordinary places, as well as interpersonal relationships, whereby he uses an honest, poetic, but at times also abstract and transcendent or borderline poetry . Characteristic here is the obvious play with his own biography, which asks the interested reader the question of how much of Stasiuk himself can be found in his works.

In addition to his literary works, he also writes reviews and essays for the largest Polish daily newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita , but also for the Italian L´Espresso and the German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Works

  • Mury Hebronu. (Opowiadania). Wydawnictwo Głodnych Duchów, Warszawa 1992, ISBN 83-85244-09-3 (German: The walls of Hebron. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN ( Edition Suhrkamp 2302))
  • Wiersze miłosne i never. Wydawnictwo Obserwator, Poznań 1994, ISBN 83-901720-2-X ( Biblioteka Czasu Kultury 7).
  • Biały kruk. (Powieść). Wydawnictwo Obserwator, Poznań 1995, ISBN 83-901720-5-4 ( Biblioteka Czasu Kultury 10), (German: The white raven. Roman. 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, Gładyszów et al. 1996, ISBN 83-86744-54-5 (German: Across the river. Erzählungen. 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. Roman. 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. An attempt at an 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: Neun. Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-41326-0 ).
  • Moja Europe. Dwa eseje o Europie zwanej Środkową. (Wraz z Jurij Andruchowiczem ). Wydawnictwo Czarne, Gładyszów 2000, ISBN 83-87391-27-1 ( Europa środkowa ) (German: Mein Europa. Two essays on so-called Central Europe. (Together with Juri 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 made of cardboard. Essays, sketches, small 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 et al. 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 et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-19322-7 ( Insel-Bücherei 1322)).
  • Jadąc do Babadag. Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2004, ISBN 83-87391-97-2 (German: Unterwegs nach 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. Reiseskizzen. 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 Turk. Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2009, ISBN 978-83-7536-072-1 ( Mala Seria ).
  • Taksim. Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2009, ISBN 978-83-7536-116-2 (German: Hinter der Blechwand. 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, ISBN 978-83-7536-288-6 .
  • Never ma ekspresów przy zóltych drogach . Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2013.
  • Wschód . Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2015.
    • German: Der Osten , translated from Polish by Renate Schmidgall, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42535-0 .

Adaptations

radio play

Movies

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Stasiuk  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanisław Bereś: Historia literatury polskiej w rozmowach, XX-XXI wiek . Ed .: Wydawnictwo WAB Wydanie 1, 2002 edition. Wydawnictwo WAB, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 83-8822175-2 , p. 414 .
  2. ↑ Ewa Głębicka: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX XXI wieku i. February 23, 2014, accessed March 19, 2017 (Polish).
  3. ^ Instytut Pamięci Narodowej: Pierwsza historia Ruchu "Wolność i Pokój". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 27, 2017 ; accessed on March 18, 2017 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.ipn.gov.pl
  4. ↑ Twórczość Stasiuka. portal.tezeusz.pl, accessed on March 18, 2017 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Patrycja Pustkowiak: Biblioteka A cappelli. dwutygodnik.com, March 2012, accessed March 5, 2017 (Polish).
  6. ↑ Łukasz Iwasiński: Mikołaj Trzaska, "Kantry". Tygodnik Powszechny , April 17, 2007, accessed May 20, 2019 (Polish).
  7. ↑ orf.at - Austrian State Prize to Andrzej Stasiuk . Article dated April 22, 2016, accessed April 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Stasiuk, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish author, journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw