Gabriela Zapolska
Gabriela Zapolska , also Gabryela Zapolska (born March 30, 1857 in Podhajce near Łuck (now Ukraine ), † December 17, 1921 in Lemberg ), actually Maria Korwin-Piotrowska , was a Polish writer .
Life
Zapolska was the daughter of a wealthy landowner who, against her parents' wishes, joined a wandering group of actors in 1879 . She performed in many Polish cities and made a guest appearance in Paris between 1890 and 1895 . In 1902 she founded a drama school in Cracow , which she also directed for several years. She also made a name for herself as a theater critic .
As a leading exponent of Polish naturalism , she was also influenced by Émile Zola and criticized the position of women in society , especially in her novels . She wrote part of her work under the pseudonyms Józef Maskoff and Walery Tomicki . She achieved special significance through her plays, her most important, the tragic comedy Moralność pani Dulskiej (The Morals of Ms. Dulski) from 1906 is still played frequently today.
Works (selection)
prose
- Kaśka Kariatyda , 1887 - German: Käthe, die Karyatide , Leipzig 1902 or Käthe. The novel of a maid , Berlin 1924; German edition 1924 ( DjVu format)
- Przedpiekle , 1889 - German: The hell of the virgins , Berlin 1924
- Menażeria ludzka - German: The human menagerie , 1893 ( polona.pl ( Memento of December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- Wodzirej , 1896 - German: Aristokrats , Berlin 1924, Volume 1 (PDF)
- Sezonowa miłość , 1905 - German: Sommerliebe , Berlin 1915 ( ISBN 978-3-7175-2152-5 , Manesse-Verlag 2008)
- Pan policmajster Tagiejew , 1905 - German: The police master . A Russian police novel , Berlin 1914
- Córka Tuśki , 1907
- O czym się nie mówi , 1909 - German: What we don't talk about , Berlin 1924
- Szaleństwo - German: Mrs. Rena's marriage , Berlin 1913
- Kobieta bez skazy , 1913 - German: The untouched woman , Berlin 1920
- O czym się nawet myśleć nie chce , 1914 - German: What one does not want to think about , Berlin 1924
- Janka , 1921
- Frania Poranek. Jej dalsze losy , 1922
- Z pamiętników młodej mężatki , 1923
- Fin-de-siecle'istka
- Zaszumi read
- Rajski ptak (bird of paradise)
A nine-volume edition of her novels was published in 1924 by the Berlin publishing house Oesterheld & Co. , which testifies to her enormous popularity in Germany.
Dramatic works
- Żabusia , Comedy, 1897 - German: Die kleine Kröte , Berlin 1956
- Jesiennym wieczorem , 1905
- Moralność pani Dulskiej , Comedy, 1906 - German: The morality of Frau Dulski. A philistine comedy in 3 acts , Vienna 1912 ( polona.pl ( Memento from December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- I czworo , 1907 - German: Dummheit im Quadrat , Berlin 1956
- Panna Maliczewska , 1912 - German: The girlfriend , Berlin 1912 or Miss Maliczewska , Berlin 1956
- Sketches
literature
- Jadwiga Czachowska: Gabriela Zapolska. Monografia bio-bibliograficzna . Wydawnictwo literackie, Krakow 1966
- Manfred Podeschwik: Studies on the novellist work of Gabriela Zapolska . Dissertation, Free University of Berlin 1969
- Jósef Rurawski: Gabriela Zapolska . 2nd Edition. Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1987, ISBN 83-214-0212-7
- Dorothea Renckhoff: "Gabriela Zapolska" and "Deceived Fraudsters" . In: Program of the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss on "Dummheit im Quadrat", 1980/81, issue 6, pp. 7–9 and 14/15
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriela Zapolska in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zapolska, Gabriela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Korwin-Piotrowska, Maria; Maskoff, Józef (pseudonym); Tomicki, Walery (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Podhajce (today Pidhajzi near Lutsk , Ukraine ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1921 |
| Place of death | Lviv |