Roma Ligocka
Roma Ligocka (born November 13, 1938 in Krakow as Roma Liebling ) is a Polish costume designer, author and painter.
Life
Roma Ligocka is the daughter of David Liebling (born August 28, 1908 in Cracow) and his wife Teofila Abrahamer (born February 11, 1911 in Cracow). Ligocka, who comes from a Jewish family, is one of the survivors of the Holocaust. Brought to the Krakow ghetto in 1940 , after fleeing in 1943 she survived with the help of her mother and a Polish family in a room in their apartment under the name Roma Ligocka .
Her father was first deported to the Plaszow (Płaszów) concentration camp and then to the Auschwitz (Oświęcim) concentration camp . In January 1945 he managed to escape from there and returned to Krakow. In May 1945 he was arrested and accused of being a Kapo in the Plaszow concentration camp. Although it was a political trial in Stalinist Poland, his innocence was proven due to his activity in a resistance group and he was acquitted in 1946, seriously ill. He died of a stroke a few weeks later on November 5, 1946.
After the war, Ligocka studied painting and stage design at the Kraków Art Academy . In 1965 she fled Poland to Germany with her second husband Jan Biczycki , where she worked as a costume designer. During this time she became addicted to pills.
Two marriages failed in Germany. After separating from her second husband - they never got divorced - she began, inspired by the film Schindler's List , in which she recognizes herself as the child with the red coat, with the literary processing of her childhood. Her novels have autobiographical traits.
Ligocka now lives as a painter in Munich and Krakow. She is a cousin of the director Roman Polański . She has or has had depression .
Works
- A smile, a rose. Stories. Droemer, Munich 2001, ISBN 342619578X .
- The girl in the red coat (with Iris von Finckenstein). Droemer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3426272091 ; Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3426620642
- My father's handwriting. Diana, Munich 2005, ISBN 3453351029
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ligocka, Roma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Darling, Roma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish costume designer, author and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |