Kazimierz Brakoniecki

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Kazimierz Brakoniecki (born December 12, 1952 in Barczewo , Warmia ) is a Polish poet, essayist , literary critic, translator of French literature and editor at the Borussia Foundation .

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After attending the Lyceum and graduating from high school in Olsztyn , Kazimierz Brakoniecki studied first Polish and then museology at the University of Warsaw . He completed his studies with a master's thesis on the poet Czesław Miłosz . In 1975 he published the first poems; the literary debut took place in 1979 with the volume of poetry Zrosty . In 1977 he worked briefly at the Ossolineum Library in Wrocław . In 1989 he met the German graduate theologian and translatorWinfried Lipscher , who was born in the same town in 1938. Brakoniecki founded the Borussia Foundation in Olsztyn in 1990 with Robert Traba , and as its representative he received the Lew Kopelew Prize in 2004 . Since September 1995 he has been the director of the Polish-French Center Côtès d'Armor in Olsztyn, and in 1996 he founded the Association of Friends of Brittany and France's Amitié .

Brakoniecki has been a member of the Polish Writers' Cooperative since 1989 and of the Polish PEN Club since 2003 . In 2007 he was in Berlin for the Literary Colloquium and then wrote the Berlin Diary .

Brakoniecki wrote over 20 books. His poems emphasize the lyric self and are reminiscent of the works of Walt Whitman . He dedicated some poems to Brittany and translated works by French poets who wrote about Brittany. His poems have been translated into German, French and Lithuanian.

Works (selection)

  • Adhesions. (Zrosty) . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1979.
  • Identity. (Tożsamość) . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1990.
  • Idea . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1991.
  • Metaxu . Wydawnictwo Przedświt, Warszawa 1993.
  • Misterium , Decora, Olsztyn 1995.
  • Poèmes du Nord . Editions Folle Avoine, Bédée 1999.
  • Moralia . Polskie Towarzystwo Czytelnicze, Olsztyn 2002.
  • Armor. Poèmes de l'Atlantique . Centrum Polsko-Francuskie Côtès d'Armor, Olsztyn 2005.
  • Europe minior . Wydawnictwo Książkowe IbiS, Warszawa 2007.
  • Warmiński Budda . Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2008, ISBN 978-83-89233-33-2 .
    • Translation Winfried Lipscher: Warmia Buddha .
  • La foret de Varmie . Editions Mona Kerloff, Quimperlé 2008.
  • Glosolalia . Wydawnictwo Pogranicze, Sejny 2008.
  • Poles, Germans and the Lord God. (Polak, Niemiec i Pan Bóg) . Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2009.
  • Berlin diary. (Dziennik Berliński) . Forma, Szczecin 2011, ISBN 978-83-60881-73-6 .

Translations (selection)

Participation

  • with Krystyna Binek, Konrad Nawrocki: The Atlantis of the North. (Atlantyda Północy) . Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Olsztyn 1993, ISBN 83-901085-0-X .
  • with Winfried Lipscher: Borussia. Country and people. A literary anthology . (Borussia. Ziemia i ludzie. Antologia literacka) . Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 1995, ISBN 83-909724-1-7 .
  • with Winfried Lipscher: The face of my home. East Prussia in the mirror of literature with prefaces by Klaus Bednarz , Andrzej Szczypiorski , Nikolaus Ehlert, Kazimira Prunskienė . FA Herbig, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-7766-1948-5 .
  • with Winfried Lipscher: The Atlantis of the North. (Atlantyda Północy) . (New edition), Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 1998, ISBN 978-8-390038-05-6 .
  • with Oleg Gluschkin, Winfried Lipscher: (anthology). Liki rodnoj quite. Proizwiedenija rossijskich, niemieckich, polskich i litewskich awtorow . Helbig, Kaliningrad 1999.
  • with his wife Hanna Brakoniecka: KaBra aphorisms and HaBra drawings . Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 2009.

Honors (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Brakoniecki, Kazimierz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brakonieckis, Kazimiežas (Lithuanian version)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet, essayist, translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Barczewo