Anna Stroka

Anna Salomea Stroka (born April 15, 1923 in Markowitz , Ratibor district ; † July 10, 2020 ) was a Polish Germanist , literary historian and university professor .

Life

After graduation in Racibórz she moved in 1948 to Wroclaw to and studied German at the University and graduated in 1953 with a degree in Magistra from. In 1962 received his doctorate her to the doctor and worked as a researcher employed at the University of Breslau.

After her habilitation in 1974 she was employed as a professor at the University of Wroclaw. In 1992 she was appointed professor and from 2002 she worked at the Philological University in Wroclaw (Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu).

She researched and published writings on the brothers Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann as well as monographs on German poetry and German and Austrian drama from the 18th to the 20th centuries. In 1982 she published the tragic comedy Die Ratten by Gerhart Hauptmann. She was also involved in editing and editing several volumes of Carl Hauptmann's complete edition .

Anna Stroka was a long-time member a. a. at: Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Wrocław Scientific Society (Wrocławskie Towarzystwo Naukowe), Association of Polish Germanists (VPG) (Stowarzyszenie Germanistów Polskich), Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft e. V. in Neuruppin and the Goethe Society in Weimar e. V.

Fonts (selection)

Carl Hauptmann's career as a thinker and poet . Ossolineum , Breslau 1965.
- Carl Hauptmann's career as a thinker and poet (= Hauptmanniana . Volume 2). Neisse Verlag , Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940310-43-9 .
with Eugeniusz Klin: German poetry up to the beginning of the 20th century . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN , Warsaw 1967.
with Marian Szyrocki : The German Drama of the 18th Century . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1972.
with Konrad Gajek, Marian Szyrocki : The German Drama of the 20th Century . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw / Breslau 1985.
with others: German literature in Poland after the Second World War. On the possibility and impossibility of spiritual bridging . Cultural Foundation of German Expellees , Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-88557-152-8 .
with others: Gerhart Hauptmann w krytyce polskiej 1945–1990 . (Gerhart Hauptmann in Polish literary criticism 1945–1990). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Breslau 1992.
Eugeniusz Tomiczek (Ed.): Vita pro litteris. Festschrift for Anna Stroka . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1993, ISBN 83-01-11258-1 .
History of German literature from the beginning to the baroque . Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej, Wrocław 2018, ISBN 978-83-60097-76-2 . DNB 1155762452

As editor

Marian Szyrocki , Mieczysław Urbanowicz: The German and Austrian Drama of the 19th Century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1971.
Gerhart Hauptmann: The rats. Berlin tragic comedy. Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-351370-X .
with Eberhard Berger, Hans-Gert Roloff : Carl Hauptmann: Complete Works. Scientific edition with commentary . 1977 ff. 16 text and 16 commentary volumes as well as a supplement . Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-7728-1761-8 .
with others: Carl Hauptmann: Complete Works . Vol. VIII, 1: Late stories . Text tape. Vol. VIII, 1, Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-7728-1740-3 .

Translations from Polish

Maciej Łagiewski : The Pantheon of the Wroclaw Jews. The Jewish cemetery on Lohestrasse in Breslau. (Macewy mówią). Nicolai Verlag , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-884-5 .
Mieczysław Zlat: Wrocław City Hall . (Ratusz wrocławski). Ossolineum, Breslau 1977.
Marcin Bukowski: The Wrocław Cathedral . Ossolineum, Breslau 1974
Krzysztof Czarnecki: Świdnica / Schweidnitz - A tourist guide . Wydawnictwo DTSK Silesia, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-85689-62-1 .

Publications

Joseph von Eichendorff and Silesia. In: Jan Koprowski: Józef Eichendorff: ostatni rycerz romantyzmu ("Joseph von Eichendorff: Last Knight of Romanticism"). Elipsa, Warsaw 1995, ISBN 83-85466-82-7 , pp. 205-213.
Carl Hauptmann and the beginnings of the artists' colony in Schreiberhau . In: Society for interregional cultural exchange e. V. (Ed.): The imposing landscape. Artists and artist colonies in the Giant Mountains in the 20th century . Berlin / Jelenia Góra 1999, ISBN 83-907423-3-0 , pp. 74-82.
Silesia in the life and work of Theodor Fontane . In: Bernd Balzer (Ed.): Approaches. Polish, German and international German studies . Breslau 2003, pp. 70-79.
Jakob Boehme's idea of peace and its expression in the poetry of Max Herrmann-Neisse . In: Mirosława Czarnecka (ed.): Memoria Silesiae. Life and death, war experience and longing for peace in the literary culture of the Baroque. In memory of Marian Szyrocki (1928–1992) . Wrocław 2003 (= Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis ; 2504), pp. 437–446.
Theodor Paur's fight against unreason in Neisse around the time of Vormärz . In: Wojciech Kunicki (Ed.) Neisse. Culturality and regionality . Nysa 2004 (= German Studies . Supplement 1), pp. 47–56.
The Piasts of Brieg in the time of Friedrich von Logau . In: Thomas Althaus (Ed.): Salomo in Schlesien. Contributions to the 400th birthday of Friedrich von Logau (1605–2005) . Amsterdam 2006 (Chloe. Supplements to Daphnis ; 39), pp. 253-273.
Marian Szyrocki (1928-1992). An Upper Silesian scholar as a mediator between Poland and Germany . In: Oberschlesisches Jahrbuch . Volume 21/22 (2005/2006 [2007]), pp. 147-157.
On the recording of Georg Büchner's dramas in Poland from the beginning up to 1990 . In: Aleksander Kozłowski (ed.): Między Śląskiem a Wiedniem. Księga jubileuszowa z okazji 60. urodzin prof. dr. have. Krzysztofa A. Kuczyńskiego . Płock 2008, pp. 521-530.
Werner Milch (1903–1950) and his relationships with Gerhart Hauptmann . In: Carl-und-Gerhart-Hauptmann-Jahrbuch . Tape. 6 (2011), pp. 331-339.

Web links

Literature by and about Anna Stroka in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Anna Stroka in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Stroka, Anna. Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe; accessed on July 11, 2020
Rainer Berg: Stroka, Anna. In: Baza osób polskich - Polish personal database. August 1, 2006 .; accessed on July 11, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ Joachim J. Scholz (Ed.): Breslau and the Upper Silesian Province: literary studies on the environment of a relationship (= Foundation Haus Oberschlesien: conference series of the Foundation Haus Oberschlesien; 4). Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7861-1865-7 , p. 114 (preview on Google Books) .
↑ Ostatnie pożegnanie prof. dr got Anny Stroki. Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu, July 10, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 (Polish).
↑ prof. dr got Anna Stroka. Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu, 2013, archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Polish).

personal data
SURNAME	Stroka, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stroka, Anna Salomea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish Germanist, literary historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Markowitz , Ratibor district
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 2020

[1] Joachim J. Scholz (Ed.): Breslau and the Upper Silesian Province: literary studies on the environment of a relationship (= Foundation Haus Oberschlesien: conference series of the Foundation Haus Oberschlesien; 4). Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7861-1865-7 , p. 114 (preview on Google Books) .

[2] Ostatnie pożegnanie prof. dr got Anny Stroki. Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu, July 10, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 (Polish).

[3] prof. dr got Anna Stroka. Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu, 2013, archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Polish).