Lidia Amejko

Lidia Amejko (born September 2, 1955 in Wroclaw ) is a Polish playwright and novelist.

Life

Lidia Amejko attended high school in Wroclaw. After graduating from high school, she studied medicine for a year and then cultural studies at the University of Wroclaw . During this time she directed the student radio Nad Odrą (On the Oder). In 1987 she made her debut with the short story Misja Oscara Llenor . In 1993 she published her first drama Gdy rozum śpi - włącza się automatyczna sekretarka . In 1996 she received a scholarship from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and in 1999 a scholarship in Bochum .

She writes plays that have been staged in Warsaw, Krakow, Opole, Wroclaw, London and Düsseldorf and that have been adapted for radio and television. Amejko is also a co-author of plays for the Puppet Theater in Wrocław. In 2008 she was nominated for the Nike Literature Prize with the novel Żywoty świętych osiedlowych .

Works

theatre

• 1993: Gdy rozum śpi - włącza się automatyczna sekretarka. (Rzecz o gadaniu). (Eng. When the mind is asleep - the answering machine starts up. Treatise on the talk)
• 1995: Męka pańska w butelce ( Eng . The suffering of the Lord in a bottle)
• 1997: Farrago
• 2001: Nondum
• 2001: Przemiana 1999 (German walk 1999)
• 2004: Pan Dwadrzewko (German Zwajbaum)
• 2006: Greta
• 2016: Silesia, Silentia

Puppet theater

• 2008: Alchemics
• 2008: Gołębiożercy
• 2008: Klątwa Muchomora
• 2008: Krasnoludki w kosmosie
• 2008: Co w trawie piszczy

prose

• Głośne history . Warsaw: Oficyna 21, 2003 ISBN 83-917228-1-3 [Loud stories]
• Żywoty świętych osiedlowych . Illustrations by Barbara Kaczmarek. Warsaw: Wydawn. WAB, 2007 ISBN 9788374143400
  • The suburban saints . Novel. Translation Bernhard Hartmann. Cologne: DuMont, 2010 ISBN 9783832195526

Web links

• Literature by and about Lidia Amejko in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Literature by and about Lidia Amejko in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Alicja Szałagan: Lidia Amejko. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (Polish). 
• Lidia Amejko. In: encyklopediateatru.pl. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (Polish). 
• Christian Riedel: Woodcut-like things made of concrete. Lidia Amejko's novel “The Suburbs Saints” is lost in everyday portraits of saints at literaturkritik.de
• Natalie Soondrum: More than a shelter . Review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau October 8, 2010
• Theater "Nondum" by Lidia Amejko , at the Polish Institute Berlin, April 7th 2011