Włodzimierz Odojewski

Włodzimierz Odojewski (before 1994)

Włodzimierz Odojewski (born June 14, 1930 in Poznan , † July 20, 2016 in Piaseczno ) was a Polish writer .

Life

Odejewski was the son of a musician. He graduated from high school in Szczecin and then studied economics and sociology in Poznan. Odojewski made his debut in 1951 with his short story Adieu to Security , which was read on Polish radio. For many years he was the director of the Contemporary Theater Studio of Polish Radio , where his first radio plays were published. In 1968 he was dismissed from the radio for political reasons after the March 1968 unrest in Poland and emigrated to Paris in 1971 . He moved from Paris to Munich and became an editor at Radio Free Europe . Here he worked in the culture department until 1994. In 1989 Odojewski returned to Poland and from then on lived alternately in Warsaw and Munich.

Works

The following works by Włodzimierz Odojewski have so far been published in German:

• Zwischenreich , 1962
• Goodbye to security , 1966
• Katharina or everything will be blown away by the snow , 1977
• A summer in Venice . Roman, translated from Polish by Barbara Schaefer, SchirmerGraf, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86555-044-6 (original title: Sezon w Wenecji ).
• When the circus came, At dusk . Two stories, translated from Polish by Barbara Schaefer, SchirmerGraf, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86555-055-2 (original title: Cyrk przyjechal, cyrk odjechal ).
• Wrong time . Novel. Translated from the Polish by Barbara Schaefer, dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28078-5 (original title: Czas odwrócony ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Włodzimierz Odojewski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zmarł Włodzimierz Odojewski . Obituary in Zeszyty Poetyckie, July 21, accessed July 24, 2016 (Polish).
2. ↑ Life after the war in FAZ of July 26, 2016, page 10