Joanna Olczak-Ronikier

Andrzej Wajda and Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (2008)

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (born November 12, 1934 in Warsaw ) is a Polish playwright , prose writer and screenwriter .

Life

During the German occupation of Poland , Olczak-Ronikier went into hiding with her mother and grandmother in Podkowa Leśna , Żbikówek and Piastów and then lived with her sisters in Warsaw. After the Second World War , she moved to Krakow , where she began studying law at the Jagiellonian University in 1953 . She interrupted her studies after four years and worked for the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami . In 1956 she married Ludwig Zimmerer , with whom she moved to Warsaw. In 1966 she made her debut with the drama Ja - Napoleon albo O potędze wyobraźni , which was published in the journal Dialog . After her divorce, she returned to Krakow, where she was the literary director of the Bagatela Theater from 1981 to 1983 . From 1989 to 1989 she worked as the literary director at the Volkstheater ( Teatr Ludowy ) in Nowa Huta .

She lives in Krakow.

family

Olczak-Ronikier is the daughter of the poet and prose writer Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa and the granddaughter of the children's author and translator Janina Mortkowicz and the editor Jakub Mortkowicz . Her daughter from her first marriage is Katarzyna Zimmerer .

Publications

Dramas

• Yes - Napoleon albo O potędze wyobraźni. Komedia w 3 aktach, 1966
• Wystawa ku czci Gabrieli Zapolskiej, 1977
• Z biegiem lat, z biegiem dni…, 1978 (Director: Andrzej Wajda )
• Zapolska, 1978, with Andrzej Józef Dąbrowski
• Ku czci Ambrożego Grabowskiego, 1979.
• Człowiek z marmuru - początek i koniec, 1989.
• Pokochaj mnie… Pierwszy w dziejach serial kabaretowy pod Nieznanym Jeszcze Tytułem, 1996
• Nocne tańce Wieczystego. Pierwszy w dziejach serial kabaretowy pod Nieznanym Jeszcze Tytułem. Odcinek drugi, 1997

Scripts

• Z biegiem lat, z biegiem dni…, 1980 (Director: Andrzej Wajda )
• Credit i debet. Andrzej Wajda o sobie , 1999

prose

• Piwnica pod Baranami, 1986
• Piwnica pod Baranami, czyli Koncert ambitnych samouków, 1994
• Piotr, 1998, together with Jolanta Drużyńska
• W ogrodzie pamięci, 2001
  • In the garden of memory. A European family of the century, translated by Karin Wolff , Berlin 2006, (2nd edition 2007)
• Korczak. Próba biografii, 2011
• Wtedy. O powojennym Krakowie, 2015

Awards (selection)

• 2002: Nike Literature Prize for W ogrodzie pamięci

Web links

• Marlena Sęczek: Joanna Olczak-Ronikier. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (Polish).