Leszek Żyliński

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Leszek Żyliński (2019)

Leszek Żyliński (born October 19, 1954 in Przemyśl ) is a Polish German studies specialist , literary historian and full professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń .

Life

After studying German at the universities in Łódź , Berlin and Wrocław , he has been teaching German literature and cultural history at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 1982 . The doctorate was in 1987 in Wrocław, the habilitation in 1998 in Toruń for Heinrich Böll . The Böll monograph was published under the title "Heinrich Bölls Poetik der Zeitgenossenschaft". He was awarded the title of professor in 2013. Since 2004, he has headed the chair for German literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1999–2002 and 2005–2008 he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology; he was elected to the University Senate from 2002–2005 and again from 2008–2012. Since 2017 he has been chairman of the university library council.

Between 2001 and 2010 he (with Edward Białek) published a series of books entitled “Zrozumieć Niemcy” (“Understanding Germany”), in which 10 volumes have now appeared. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the following journals: " Litteraria Copernicana ", "Thalloris", "Wortsequence / Szyk słów"; since 2001 jury member of the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize awarded by the twin cities of Toruń and Göttingen. Since 2009 he has also worked as a scientific reviewer for Polish literature at Kindlers Literatur Lexikon .

Żyliński supervised around 100 masters and 4 doctoral theses. Guest lectures and conferences took him to Germany, France, Denmark, Croatia, Lithuania and the Ukraine.

In 1989 he was the founder of the Polish-German Society in Toruń, which is still active today. He worked for the Borussia cultural community for many years (member of the board of trustees and the editorial board of the magazine 2003–2017). 1993–2015 he was the scientific supervisor of the teachers' college in Toruń. Several times he was visiting lecturer in the summer academies of the German National Academic Foundation .

Fonts

  • Heinrich Böll's Poetics of the Contemporary, Toruń 1997, ISBN 83-231-0860-9 .
  • Europejskie wizje pisarzy niemieckich w XX wieku [Visions of Europe by German Writers in the 20th Century], Poznań 2003, ISBN 83-7177-288-2 .
  • The quarantine. German and Austrian literature of the fifties between continuity and a new beginning, (with Edward Białek), Wrocław 2004, 2nd expanded edition, Wrocław - Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-934038-60-8 .
  • The peculiarity of the Polish reception by Günter Grass, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8142-1187-9 .
  • Europa w niemieckiej myśli XIX – XXI wieku [Europe in the thinking of Germans from the 19th to the 21st century], Toruń 2012, ISBN 978-83-231-2789-5 .
  • Files of the XII. International Congress of Germanists Warsaw 2010, Vol. 9 (Eds. Friederike Eigler, Janusz Golec, Leszek Żyliński,) Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63210-9 .
  • Od Prus do Europy. Szkice o tożsamości narodowej Niemców [From Prussia to Europe. Essays on the national identity of Germans], Toruń 2014, ISBN 978-83-231-3292-9 .
  • Wokół romantyzmu [Debates on Romanticism in Germany], [Ed.] Tomasz Waszak / Leszek Żyliński, Poznań 2016, ISBN 978-83-64864-55-1 .
  • Tropy. Fragmenty i zapiski, Toruń 2019, ISBN 978-83-231-4188-4 .
  • Pisząc, zmieniam świat. Heinrich Böll czytany współcześnie, (red.) Renata Dampc-Jarosz i Leszek Żyliński, Kraków 2019, ISBN 978-83-242-3528-5 .

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. dr hab. Leszek Żyliński - Wydział Filologiczny - Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wyborcza.pl. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Zrozumieć Niemcy - Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kapituła | www.torun.pl. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Od Prus do Europy. Szkice o tożsamości narodowej Niemców - Wydawnictwo UMK. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ Tropy. Fragmenty i zapiski - Wydawnictwo UMK. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  7. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Academy - Members - Leszek Żyliński - Self-introduction. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Żyliński, Leszek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Germanist, literary historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl