Emilia Smechowski

Emilia Smechowski (2017)

Emilia Smechowski (born in August 1983 when Emilka Elżbieta Śmiechowska in Wejherowo , German Wejherowo , Poland ) is a Polish-German journalist.

Life

In 1988 Emilia Smechowski emigrated with her parents from Wejherowo, a small town near Danzig , to West Berlin , where the parents found employment as anesthetists. The family received German citizenship. Smechowski studied opera singing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin (without a degree) and then Romance studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Bachelor of Arts ).

Initially, Smechowski worked as an editor for the daily newspaper (taz) and has since worked as a freelance writer and reporter. Smechowski and her daughter moved to Gdansk for a year to work on her book Return to Poland , which was published in 2019 . She now lives and works in Berlin again.

Awards

In 2015 she was awarded the German Reporter Prize and in 2016 the Konrad Duden Journalist Prize and the German-Polish Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalist Prize. In 2017 she received the German Reporter Award again .

Works

• We nerdy migrants . Carl Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25683-5
  • Polish translation by Bartosz Nowacki: My, super imigranci. Reportaż . Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2018, ISBN 978-83-8123-369-9 .
• Return to Poland . Hanser, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26418-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Emilia Smechowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Emilia Smechowski at perlentaucher.de
• Emilia Smechowski , at Hanser's
• Deutschlandfunk '' nuances. Music and questions about the person '' from October 27, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simone Schmollack : Emilia Smechowski: "Return to Poland". The burden of freedom weighs heavily. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, July 27, 2010, accessed on August 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: German Reporter Award 2017: Four SPIEGEL stories awarded - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .