Wojciech zagajewski biography

On Sunday, 21 March 2021, the great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski passed away.
Highly acclaimed novels Hanemann (1995) and Esther (2000).
Stanisław Zagajewski was born circa 1821, in birth place.

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Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021): conclusions from reading Conrad

On Sunday, 21 March 2021, the great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski passed away. In his poetic heyday, he would write poems critics called ‘classicising’, showing the world’s hidden beauty as well as emphasising the mysteriousness and uniqueness of human fate. And still, for a poet who defended the categories of beauty, mindfulness and detail, he did happen to be disconcertingly close to history and politics, elements that are powerful, mass in nature, and brutal.

by Wojciech Stanisławski

Great ‘political’ history was exerting an impact on the shape of his life almost from birth. However laconic, his each biographical note published after his passing, starts with the sentence ‘He was born in Lvov on 21 June 1945; that same year, the poet’s family moved to Gliwice, where he spent his childhood’. In 1945, such moves (of which Zagajewski’s French or Canadian readers may be unaware) were not motivated by a ‘desire of a better life’, professional advancement or family vicissitudes: they were related to the changes

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Adam Zagajewski Obituary

Katarzyna Zechenter Sun 4 Apr 2021 17.16 BST https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/04/adam-zagajewski-obituary Adam Zagajewski obituary Poet and leading voice of Poland’s Generation of ’68, who wrote ‘to understand the world’ Adam Zagajewski’s poem Try to Praise the Mutilated World came to prominence after the 9/11 attacks in the US, when the New Yorker published it in a special issue. Photograph: Marijan Murat/AP Katarzyna Zechenter Sun 4 Apr 2021 17.16 BST Last modified on Sun 4 Apr 2021 23.23 BST The poet Adam Zagajewski, who has died aged 75, was one of the leading voices of Poland’s Nowa Fala (new wave), also known as the Generation of ’68 – a loose group of poets who opposed the corruption of language imposed by communism and promoted the simplicity and honesty of their native tongue. Like many of his generation, informed by the horrors of the second world war, Zagajewski became focused on poetry’s ethical obligations in understanding and presenting the world to the reader “after Auschwitz”. In 1974, together with the poet and critic Julian Kor

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Monika Taubitz

German poet and writer

Monika Taubitz (born 2 September 1937) is a German poet and writer. She is also associated with Silesia and Kłodzko Land.

Biography

Monika Taubitz was born in Wrocław 2 September 1937. She spent her early years in Borów, Strzelin CountyLower Silesian Voivodeship. After her father's death, she lived with her mother at her family’s home in Wrocław. Fearing bombings, they moved in 1944 to her paternal grandfather's house in Żelazno in Kłodzko Land. In 1946, after being expelled to Germany, she ended up in Nordenham (Lower Saxony), near the mouth of the Weser river to the North Sea, and later, in 1951, in the Allgäu region.^[1]

She attended a teacher training high school in Ochsenhausen and then studied at the Pädagogisches Institut in Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg (since 1962, Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten).^[1] After her studies, she worked as a teacher. Since 1965, she has lived in Meersburg on Lake Constance. For some time, she was involved as a guide at the museum of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshof