Sławomir Mrożek

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Sławomir Mrożek, 2006

Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930 in Borzęcin near Kraków , † August 15, 2013 in Nice , France ) was a Polish writer and playwright .

Life

Mrożek studied architecture , art history and oriental studies . Even as a 23-year-old he was a staunch Stalinist and signed an open letter and a newspaper article in which he welcomed the death sentences against three Catholic priests. His first successes in Poland were his work as a cartoonist . In 1957 his first book of satirical stories was published . In 1958 he made his big breakthrough with his dramatic sketch The Police . With that, Mrożek had found his genre : he switched to writing plays that are in no way inferior to his cartoons in their satirical sharpness.

Using the means of absurd theater, he criticizes life in a society that is shaped by the control of the police, a party, the state and its bureaucracy with catchy punchlines. He remained loyal to the theater through which he achieved world fame. He was regarded by the Polish cultural superiors as one of the model intellectuals . In response to the crackdown on the Prague Spring , he applied for political asylum in France in 1968, where he also temporarily settled. Before returning to Poland in 1996, he spent six more years in Mexico . Since 2008 Mrożek has been living in the south of France again.

Awards

bibliography

Plays

  • The Police (1958)
  • The Martyrdom of Piotr O Hey (1959)
  • The Turkey (1960)
  • On the High Seas (1961)
  • Karol (1961)
  • Striptease (1961)
  • The cynologist in conflict (1962)
  • A Wondrous Night (1963)
  • The Deer (1963)
  • The First Lieutenant's Death (1963)
  • The House on the Frontier (1964)
  • Tango (1964)
  • The Tailor (1966)
  • The Dog (1966)
  • The foursome (1967)
  • The Prophets (1967)
  • From the beginning again (1968)
  • A Joyful Event (1968)
  • Watzlaff (1970)
  • The slaughterhouse (1973)
  • Emigrants (1974)
  • Humpback (1975)
  • Fuchs the Philosopher (1977)
  • Fox Hunt (1977)
  • Serenade (1977)
  • Fuchs, the aspirant (1978)
  • On foot (1980)
  • The Ambassador (1982)
  • Alpha (1984)
  • A Summer's Day (1984)
  • The Treaty (1986)
  • The Portrait (1987)
  • The Widows (1992)
  • Love in Crimea (1993)
  • The venerable. Beautiful view. (2000)
  • Carnival or Adam's First Wife (2011)

Satirical stories

  • Little Summer (1956)
  • The Elephant (1957)
  • Escape to the South (1961)
  • The Night Express (1970)

Collections

  • Opowiadania z Trzmielowej Góry (1953)
  • Półpancerze Praktyczne (1953)
  • Słoń (1957)
  • Wesele w Atomicach (1959)
  • Deszcz (1962)
  • Dwa listy i inne opowiadania (1970)
  • Opowiadania (1981)
  • Donosy (1983)
  • Śpiąca Królewna
  • Woda
  • Ostatni husarz
  • Zeszyt

Autobiography and diary

Translations

The early works were translated by Ludwig Zimmerer , and then by Christa Vogel from the late 1960s .

  • The Elephant (Słoń). Henssel, Berlin 1960.
  • Wedding in Atomweiler (Wesele w Atomicach). Henssel, Berlin 1961.
  • Pieces. 3 vols. Henssel, Berlin 1963, 1965, 1970.
  • On the high seas. The deer. Henssel, Berlin 1963.
  • Striptease. Kaiser, Munich 1963.
  • The turkey (Indyk). Henssel, Berlin 1968.
  • Watzlaff. A game in 77 scenes (Vatzlav). Henssel, Berlin 1970.
  • What carries us. Henssel, Berlin 1970.
  • Emigrants (Emigranci). Henssel, Berlin 1975.
  • Pieces. People and World, Berlin 1977.
  • Collected Works. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1981.
    • Vol. 1: Tango and other pieces.
    • Vol. 2: The giraffe and other stories.
    • Vol. 3: Cupid and other pieces.
    • Vol. 4: The fat man who laughed and other stories.
  • Life is difficult (Trudne Życie). dtv, Munich 1985.
  • Zabawa. Satire in a listless time. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1992

literature

  • Alek Pohl: Back to form. Structural analysis of Slawomir Mrozek. Henssel, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-87329-064-2 .
  • Halina Stephan: Transcending the absurd. Drama and prose of Slawomir Mrozek (= Studies in Slavic literature and poetics 28). Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 1997, ISBN 90-420-0113-5 .

Web links

Commons : Sławomir Mrożek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zbrodnia główna i held , digital copy of the Institute of National Remembrance (archived version).
  2. ↑ Mrozek: Parable of the Prolet. Review, Spiegel, January 10, 1966.
  3. ↑ http://www.diogenes.ch/leser/autoren/az/m/mrozek_slawomir/download
personal data
SURNAME Mrożek, Sławomir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Borzęcin near Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2013
Place of death Nice