Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka ( ), née Maria Wasiłowska , (born May 23, 1842 in Suwałki , Russian Empire ; † October 8, 1910 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ) was a Polish writer . Her pseudonym as a poet was Jan Sawa .
Life
As a child, together with five siblings, she became a half-orphan due to the death of her mother Scholastyka at an early age. Her father Józef Wasiłowski raised her in the spirit of Catholicism and the Polish nation. In September 1862 she married the landlord Jarosław Konopnicki. Soon the residents of the estate were involved in the January uprising and had to flee. The Konopnickis went to Germany and only returned after the general amnesty of 1865. Since they lived beyond their means, the now eight-member family had to sell the 1872 good and in a smaller Vorwerk move nearby. In 1877 Maria separated from her husband and moved with the children to Warsaw , where she worked as a writer and tutor. After 1890 she stayed abroad more often because of a sick daughter. In 1902, for her 25th anniversary as a writer, she was given a small estate in Gutarnowiec near Krosno , where a museum is now in her honor. Konopnicka died in a Lviv sanatorium in 1910 and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery.
plant
Konopnicka made her debut in Kaliszanin magazine in 1875 . In the following years she published in many other papers and edited a number of volumes of poetry. She achieved particular fame, which continues to this day, through her patriotic song Rota (for example, “Vow”), which was at times referred to as Poland's unofficial national anthem . In general, she is considered one of the most important representatives of Polish positivism .
Publications
Poetry
- Zimowy poranek (1870)
- Kaliszowi (1888 and 1907)
- Memu miastu (1897)
- Line i dźwięki (1897)
- Italy (1901)
- Śpiewnik historyczny (1904, German: historical hymn book )
- Głosy ciszy (1906)
- Z liryk i obrazków (1909)
- Pan Balcer w Brazylii (1910, German: Mr. Balzer in Brazil )
prose
- Cztery nowele (1888, German: The Four Novellas )
- Moi znajomi (1890, German: my friends )
- Na drodze (1893, German: outside , including Mendel Gdański , Nasza szkapa )
- Nowele (1897, including Miłosierdzie gminy )
- Ludzie i rzeczy (1898)
- Na normandzkim brzegu
Children's books
- Śpiewnik dla dzieci ( Eng .: song books for children )
- O Janku Wędrowniczku (1983)
- O krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi (1896, English: Marysia and the dwarfs , 1949)
- Na jagody (1903, German: picking cranberries )
- Szkolne przygody Pimpusia Sadełko (1905)
- Co słonko widziało
Collective editions in German
- Life and suffering. Novellas , Stuttgart 1904
- Stories from Poland , Munich 1916 (includes: The old Banashin (Banasiowa), The Xaver (Ksawery), Jusek Srokatsch (Józik Srokacz), In the old mill (W starym młynie), A still life (Martwa natura), The Urbanin ( Urbanowa), Anuscha (Anusia), Wojtschech Sapala (Wojciech Zapała), Rauch (Dym), A Hard Day (W winiarskim forcie), Marischa (Maryśka), The Sea (Morze), The Stupid Franek (Głupi Franek), Cemeteries ( Z cmentarzy), Our little horse (Nasza szkapa) )
- Summer nights , Weimar 1918
literature
- Katrin Kühn: Longing for liberation from national service. Maria Konopnicka's short story (dissertation). PDF (1.3 MB) provided by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ; including a detailed overview of the German-language research literature (p. 16 f.)
- Kasimir Król : about Maria Konopnickas in: Outline of the Polish literary history , section 9. The literature from 1864 on (The Positivist Period and the New Era). In: Letter-based language and speech lessons for adults to study on their own. Polish. V. Supplement. Langenscheidt, Berlin undated, p. 30, column 2 (center) to p. 31, column 2 (center) ( digitized from Google Books )
Web links
- Literature by and about Maria Konopnicka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Maria Konopnicka in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Maria Konopnicka. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konopnicka, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | poetess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suwałki , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1910 |
| Place of death | Lviv , Austria-Hungary , today Ukraine |