The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation
invites you to a meeting in the READING ROOM / LESERAUM series
About Ewa Winnicka’s book “Miasteczko Panna Maria. Silesians in the Wild West”
The author will be interviewed by Katarzyna Kasia
Where: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, ul. Zielna 37 (Europa Hall, 6th floor), Warsaw
When: 3 December, at 18:30
Please confirm your attendance:
Registration for the event – https://forms.office.com/e/f9XWXZKCXz
After the meeting, we invite you for a glass of wine
In cooperation with: Wydawnictwo Czarne
About the book:
After disembarking, they set out to conquer the Wild West, joining the course of American history. They founded the settlements of Panna Maria, Cestohowa and Kosciusko, and became cowboys, bandits, ranchers, soldiers and millionaires. Gradually, they transformed from Poles in Texas into Texans from Poland or Texans from Silesia, because the question of what the true homeland of their ancestors was remains unresolved for many.
Ewa Winnicka – reporter, author of the books Londyńczycy, Angole, Nowy Jork zbuntowany, Milionerka, Był sobie chłopczyk, Greenpoint. Kroniki Małej Polski. She received an FWPN Journalism Fellowship for research for the book Miasteczko Panna Maria. Ślązacy na Dzikim Zachodzie. Co-author of the books Głosy and Władcy strachu (written together with Dionisios Sturis), as well as 1968 (with Cezary Łazarewicz). Three-time winner of the Grand Press Award, winner of the Gryfia Award, the award for best book of the year given at the Reportage Festival in Lublin, and the MediaTory Award. She has also received nominations for the Nike Award, the Grand Press Award, the Upper Silesian Literary Award “Juliusz” and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award. Together with Magdalena Grzebałkowska, she hosts the podcast Jak się starzeć bez godności.
Katarzyna Kasia – a Polish philosopher, academic lecturer, columnist and radio-television journalist; holder of a PhD in philosophy. She has been a fellow of, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic and the Kosciuszko Foundation. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Theatre Academy. A commentator and co-host of programmes on TVN24 and TVP, a regular columnist for “Kultura Liberalna” and a member of the editorial team of “Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki”.
About the Reading Room / Leseraum series
Literature is a mirror that also reflects Polish-German relations. The openness of publishers to publishing literary translations – or the lack thereof – remains an important measure of the knowledge Poles have about Germany and Germans about Poland, as well as the level of mutual interest.
The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation has for years consistently supported Polish-German literary exchange. It provides grants for the publication of translations, awards fellowships enabling in-depth work on topics of interest to readers in both countries, and also funds the Albrecht Lempp Fellowship for writers and translators from Poland and Germany.
Books are the protagonists of meetings organised at Zielna – open to the public. We invite you to discussions about new German titles on the Polish book market, to debates accompanying publications on German studies, to discussions about books that made headlines and those that went unnoticed but are still worth revisiting. We present reportages by our fellows – journalists from Poland and Germany. Among the guests at the meetings you will find authors, literary critics, experts and translators.
We invite you to a shared reading and conversation at the Reading Room / Leseraum on Zielna.