Stefan Chwin
Stefan Chwin (born April 11, 1949 in Danzig , Poland ) is a Polish writer and literary historian .
Life
Chwin is a descendant of Lithuanian Poles who were expelled from Lithuania after World War II . His father was born in Vilnius and came to the completely destroyed Gdansk in 1945. Chwin studied literature in Gdansk and still lives in Gdansk as a freelance writer.
Like Paweł Huelle , Stefan Chwin is a chronicler of German-Polish history in Gdansk and is therefore often compared to Günter Grass . His most important novels published in German are: Hanemann (German title Tod in Danzig ) and Esther (German title Die Gouvernante ). They were both translated by Renate Schmidgall . In 2005 Hanser Verlag published the novel Złoty pelikan (German title Der goldene Pelikan ) and Thelem Chwin's poetry lectures Places of Remembrance .
Awards
- 1997 Erich Brost Prize
- 1999 Andreas Gryphius Prize
- 2015 Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize together with Marie-Luise Scherer
Works (selection)
- prose
- Death in Danzig. Roman ("Hanemann", 1995). 3rd edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-22623-5 .
- The governess. Roman ("Esther", 1999). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-23362-2 .
- The golden pelican. Roman ("Złoty Pelikan", 2003). Dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13632-7 .
- A German diary . Translated from the Polish by Marta Kijowska . edition .fotoTAPETA, 2015, ISBN 978-3-940524-32-4 .
- Non-fiction
- Places of remembrance. Memory images from Central Europe . Edition Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-933592-59-3 .
literature
- Joanna Bednarska-Kociołek: On the magic of the city of Danzig. “Tod in Danzig” by Stefan Chwin and “Doom and See” by Günter Grass . In: Marcin Minchoń (Ed.): Texts and Contexts. Festschrift for Professor Zenon Weigt on the occasion of his 60th birthday . UP, Łódź 2008, ISBN 978-83-7525-197-5 (in German and Polish).
- Wolfgang Emmerich: Are Germans allowed to mourn their own victims? Shipwrecks in 1945 with Uwe Johnson Walter Kempowski , Günter Grass, Tanja Dückers and Stefan Chwin . In: Holger Böning (Ed.): Danzig and the Baltic region. Language, literature, journalism (press and history; vol. 16). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2005, pp. 293–323, ISBN 3-934686-27-3 .
- Monika Hryniewicka: Danzig - Gdańsk and its history as a literary theme in the prose of Günter Grass , Stefan Chwin and Paweł Huelle . Dissertation, University of Göttingen 2009.
- Natascha Royon: Return in the Word. Eastern places of remembrance in works by Wolfgang Koeppen , Johannes Bobrowski Czesław Miłosz and Stefan Chwin . Verlag Kovac, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-5195-4 (also dissertation, University of Mainz 2008).
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Chwin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stefan Chwin at culture.pl (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Stefan Chwin at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Bünz: The Erich Brost Foundation in Poland , in: Klaus Reiff (Hrsg.): The Erich Brost Foundation. The legacy of the Danzig journalist, resistance fighter and publisher and editor-in-chief of the 'Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung' , Berlin 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chwin, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gdansk , Poland |