Andrzej Kuśniewicz
Andrzej Kuśniewicz (born November 30, 1904 in Kowenice near Sambor ( Galicia ), † May 15, 1993 in Warsaw ) was a Polish writer, poet and diplomat.
Kuśniewicz studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts and at the Jagiellonian University . 1925–1928 he toured Europe as a representative of an automobile company. He then worked in the consular service of Poland in Czechoslovakia and France. During the war he joined the French Resistance , was arrested, sentenced to death, and survived in the Fresnes , Neue Bremm and Mauthausen concentration camps . After the war he was active again in the consular service. In 1950 he returned to Poland and devoted himself to literature.
He was married twice: with the dancer and writer Maria Ukniewska (1907–1962) and with the satirist Anna Lechicka (1918–2002).
The plot of some of his novels takes place in small towns in East Galicia before 1918. Kuśniewicz managed to describe the atmosphere of Galicia at the time in a nostalgic and suggestive way.
His novel " Lekcja martwego języka " (Lesson in a Dead Language) was made into a film by Janusz Majewski in 1979.
bibliography
- Hans-Peter Hoelscher-Obermaier
- Hans-Peter Hoelscher-Obermaier: Andrzej Kuśniewicz 'syncretistic novel poetics , Slavic contributions; Vol. 227 Munich, University, Dissertation, 1987/88, ISBN 3-87690-396-3
- Andrzej Kuśniewicz: Signs of the Zodiac . Translated from Polish by Renate Schmidgal, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1991, ISBN 3-518-40400-8
- Andrzej Kuśniewicz: King of the Two Sicilies . Translated from Polish by Klaus Staemmler, Frankfurt am Main, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-596-25758-1
- Andrzej Kuśniewicz. Lesson in a dead language . Translated from Polish by Klaus Staemmler, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1987, ISBN 3-518-01963-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrzej Kuśniewicz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuśniewicz, Andrzej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish diplomat and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kowenice at Sambir |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1993 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |