Erwin Kruk

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Erwin Kruk (1989)

Erwin Kruk , pseudonym Marek Doski (born May 4, 1941 in Gutfeld , Neidenburg district ; † March 31, 2017 in Olsztyn , Warmia-Masuria ) was a German-Polish writer , Masurian poet and literary critic of the Polish language . He was considered the voice and literary memory of Masuria .

Childhood and youth

Erwin Kruk's father was the farmer Hermann Kruk, who was deported by the Red Army in the course of the East Prussian operation . His mother Meta Kruk died while doing forced labor . As an orphan , Erwin Kruk first lived with relatives and in a social community of remaining locals. Increasing tensions between them and immigrants, disenfranchisement, loss of identity and alienation made the Masurians “displaced in their own country”. After they had gradually left Masuria, Kruk came to homes and boarding schools. Separated from his origins, he finally had to deny it. He grew up without any social protection. With the help of a dictionary he could read German , but not write it. In a letter he quoted the expelled Silesian Louis Ferdinand Helbig :

"The foreign has not become home, but the home has become a stranger."

- LF Helbig

Career

After Kruk graduated from high school in Morąg in 1960 , he studied Polish Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń . He headed the student radio and founded the literary group Kadyk . As editor of the almanac poezji , among other things, he devoted himself to student songs from the Copernicus University from 1945 to 1965.

After completing his studies, he moved to Olsztyn in 1966 , where he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Głos Olsztyński (Gazeta Olsztyńska) for over 13 years . After that he was a publicist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Przemiany (German change). In March 1980 he left the editorial office of Gazeta Olsztyńska.

In the same year he began to get involved in Solidarność . He was a co-founder of the Masurian Cultural Association , which was not approved by the government. In 1981, while working with many socio- cultural magazines, he decided to work for the monthly Meritum in Warsaw. From 1989–1991 he represented the Olsztyn Voivodeship in the Senate of the Republic of Poland . He later moved to Unia Demokratyczna .

The Polish PEN elected him Vice President in the late 1990s. He was president of the Union of Literature (SPP Club) in Olsztyn and co-founder of the Masurian Evangelical Society (1999). He dealt in depth with Simon Dach and the pumpkin hut .

He translated Wojciech Kętrzyński's collection of poetry from the songbook of a Germanized (1854–1862) and poems by Ernst Wiechert .

Memberships

Honors

Incomplete list

Works

Kruk's house

Novels

  • Drogami o świcie (1967) - Out and about in the morning
  • Na uboczu święta (1967) - Christmas away from the streets
  • Rondo (1971) - roundabout
  • Pusta noc (1976) - Empty Night
  • Łaknienie (1980) - Desire
  • Kronika z Mazur (1989) - A chronicle from Masuria

Essays

  • Szkice z mazurskiego brulionu (2003) - Sketches from the Masurian notebook
  • Spadek. Zapiski mazurskie 2007–2008 (2009) - The Legacy. Masurian Notes

Poems

  • Rysowane z pamięci (1963) - Drawn from memory
  • Zapisy powrotu (1969) - Notes of Return
  • Moja Północ (1977) - My North
  • Powrót na wygnanie (1977) - Return to exile
  • Z krainy Nod (1987) - From the country Nod
  • Znikanie (2005) - The Disappearance

History books

  • Ewangelicy w Olsztynie (2002) - Evangelicals in Allenstein
  • Warmia i Mazury (Warmia and Mazury). Wroclaw 2003

literature

Web links

Commons : Erwin Kruk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grzegorz Szydłowski, Tomasz course: Erwin Kruk nie żyje. Mazur, poeta i legenda “Solidarności”. In: Gazeta Wyborcza . March 31, 2017, Retrieved April 1, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Klaus Bednarz : Andreas Kossert: Masuren - East Prussia's forgotten south . Book review in the Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Political Literature”, November 12, 2001, accessed on April 1, 2017.
    Kruk, Erwin . Baza osób polskich - Polish personal database, accessed April 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Erwin Kruk in an interview with Kultura (Paris) .
  4. ↑ Burkhard Ollech: In the shadow. The Masurian poet Erwin Kruk .
  5. ↑ a b Erwin Kruk in a letter dated February 24, 1991.
  6. ^ Paweł Warot: Erwin Kruk. Encyklopedia Solidarności, archived from the original on June 5, 2014 ; accessed on April 1, 2017 (English).
  7. ^ Masurian Evangelical Society. Association Wiki, accessed April 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Anna Gajdis: The reception of Simon Dach in Poland . In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Simon Dach (1605–1659): Work and aftermath . Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-484-36626-8 , ISSN  0934-5531 , p. 451.
  9. ↑ Honorowi Obywatele Olsztyna . Olsztyn City website, accessed April 1, 2017 (Polish).
  10. ↑ Erwin Kruk doctorate honoris causa UWM . From the Olsztyn info portal olsztyn.wm.pl (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Kruk, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doski, Marek (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish writer, Masurian poet and literary critic of the Polish language
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutfeld , Neidenburg District , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2017
Place of death Olsztyn , Warmia-Masuria , Poland