Maria Janion

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Maria Janion (born December 24, 1926 in Mońki , Podlaskie , † August 23, 2020 in Warsaw ) was a Polish literary scholar , literary critic and university teacher .

Live and act

Youth and education

During the Second World War she lived with her parents in Vilnius , came to Bydgoszcz as a repatriant in the spring of 1945 , passed the external diploma in Toruń , enrolled in the autumn of 1945 and then studied polonistics at the University of Łódź . In 1949 she moved to Warsaw to, graduated as Magistra at the University of Warsaw , and was from 1951 to 1952 there as an assistant operates. In 1949 she joined the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) and remained a member until it was expelled in 1979. With her dissertation on Lucjan Siemieński , she became an aspirant of Polish philology in 1955 .

Profession and work

From 1957 she taught as a lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Danzig and in 1963 she qualified as an associate professor . In 1970 she was employed at the Institute of Polish Philology at the Polish Academy of Sciences ( Instytut Filologii Polskiej , PAN) of the newly founded University of Gdansk , habilitated as a full professor in 1973 and worked there until 1990. From 1979-1983 she was a member of the Polish Writers' Union (Związek Literatów Polskich), from 1980 she was a member of the Union of Polish Writers (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich) , from 1990 a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności , from 1991 a member of the Polish PEN Club and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN ).

In her writings, reviews and publications she dealt with the cultural reception of the Polish and German romantic epochs and their literary figures . Furthermore, she dealt with the literary representation and transmission of Polish heroism , messianism , the position of Judaism and the feminist currents in Polish literature.

From 1997-2004 she was a member of the jury for the Nike Literature Prize . In recognition of her services, she received the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize in 1980 ; on December 11, 2012, the French ambassador in Warsaw, Pierre Buhlow, presented her with the Ordre national du Mérite, and on June 13, 2013, she was elected honorary citizen of Warsaw .

Fonts (selection)

• Lucjan Siemieński , poeta romantyczny . ( Monograph ), Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1955.
• Zygmunt Krasiński , debiut i dojrzałość . Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1962.
• with Eberhard Dieckmann (ed.), Bruno Schymon (translation): Positions in contemporary Polish literature. Methodological questions and literary historiography . Akademie-Verlag , Berlin 1967.
• Odysea wychowania. Goetheańska wizja człowieka w latach nauki i latach wędrówki Wilhelma Meistra . Aureus, Kraków 1998, ISBN 978-83-87887-01-8 .
• Günter Grass i polski Pan Kichot . Słowo / obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 1999, ISBN 978-83-87316-44-0 .
• Czy będziesz wiedział, co przeżyłeś . Wydawnictwo Sic !, Warszawa 1996.
• Wampire . Biografia symboliczna . Słowo / obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2002, ISBN 978-83-89405-65-4 .
• Życie pośmiertne Konrada Wallenroda . Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1990.
• Mężczyzna, kobieta, dzieje . In: Günter Grass: The Butt . (Turbot) . Polnord-Oskar, Gdańsk 1995, ISBN 83-86181-19-2 .
• Purpurowy płaszcz Adama Mickiewicza . Study z historii poezji i mentalności. Słowo / obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2001.
• The controlled woman . The Polish women are not yet lost. (Jeszcze Polki never zginęły) . In: Wespennest (magazine) 120, Vienna 2000.
• Niesamowita Słowiańszczyza. Fantazmaty literatury . Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2006, ISBN 83-08-03928-6 .
• with Kazimiera Szczuka : Janion. Transe – traumy – transgresje. 1: Niedobre dziecię . Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2013, ISBN 978-83-63855-02-4 .
• Bohater, spisek, śmierć. Wykłady żydowskie . 2009. Translation by Alex Shannon: Hero, Conspiracy, and Death. The Jewish Lectures . PL Academic Research Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-62357-2 .
• Bernhard Hartmann, Thomas Weiler (translator), Magdalena Marszałek (ed.): The Poles and their vampires. Studies on the Critique of Phantasms . Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42430-8 .

filming

• 2000: Nowy kontakt wyobraźni. Documentary . Directed by Agnieszka Zawadowska.
• 2002: Nowe Horyzonty - Film Festival ; My films, Maria Janion.
• 2005: Bunt Janion. Documentary. Directed by Agnieszka Arnold.
• 2005: Obłoki Marii Janion. Documentary. Directed by Krzysztof Bukowski.
• 2009: Congress Niedokończony. Documentary. Directed by Agnieszka Arnold

Awards and honors (selection)

• 1962: Aleksander Brückner Prize
• 1980: Prize of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation in New York
• 1994: Honorary doctorate (Dr. honoris causa ) from the University of Gdansk
• 2001: Kazimierz Wyka Prize
• 2005: Prize of the Izabela Jaruga Nowacka Foundation
• 2006: Culture Prize Paszport Polityki
• 2006: Janion family tree (Drzewo Janion, Księga Janion ) for his 80th birthday
• 2007: Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit
• 2007: Nominated for Nike Literary Award for Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna
• 2012: Ordre national du Mérite (Commandeur)
• 2012: Irena Sendler Award
• 2013: Honorary Citizen of the City of Warsaw

literature

• Brigitta Helbig-Mischewski : New Age - discourse in Polish literature , literary criticism and poetry of the 70s and 80s. Reconstruction of a world view . ( Dissertation Bochum 1994), Verlag Otto Sagner, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-87690-611-9 .
• Brigitta Helbig-Mischewski: Maria Janion - a collective symbol . In: Zeitschrift für Empirische Textforschung (ZET 1994) 1, pp. 75–80.
• Karol Sauerland : To the Kleist reception in Poland after the Second World War . In: Marie Haller-Nevermann (ed.), Dieter Rehwinkel: Kleist. A modern scout? . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-898-1 , p. 156ff.
• Zbigniew Majchrowski, Stanisław Rosiek: Księga Janion . Słowo / obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2007, ISBN 978-83-7453-751-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Janion in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Maria Janion in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Maria Janion at perlentaucher.de
• Rainer Berg: Janion, Maria. In: Polish personal database. August 1, 2006 . 
• Maria Janion office. In: weiberwirtschaft.de . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . 
• Professor Maria Janion. (pdf; 107 kB) In: europa.eu. March 14, 2003, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 . 
• Maria Janion. In: Nauka Polska. (Polish). 
• Zmarła prof. Maria Janion. Krytyczka literacka miała 93 lata. In: Onet.pl . August 23, 2020(Polish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Narodowy Order Zasługi dla Pani Marii Janion, wielkiej damy europejskiej kultury. In: ambafrance.org. December 11, 2012, accessed August 24, 2020 (Polish, French ). L'Ordre National du Mérite pour une grande dame de la culture européenne, Mme Maria Janion. In: ambafrance.org. December 11, 2012, accessed on August 24, 2020 (French). 
    
2. ↑ Andrzej Franaszek : Drzewo Marii Janion. In: Onet.pl . March 5, 2008, archived from the original on July 2, 2013 ; accessed on August 24, 2020 (Polish). 
3. ↑ Prof. Maria Janion receives Irena Sendler Award. In: Virtual Shtetl . July 6, 2012, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; accessed on August 24, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ 11-17 czerwca. In: Onet.pl. June 18, 2013, archived from the original on July 16, 2013 ; accessed on August 24, 2020 (Polish).