24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Herkunft: Poland

Felix Ackermann

born in 1978, graduated in cultural studies, history and political science in Frankfurt (Oder) and London. From 2000 to 2011, he set up the Institute for applied history at the European University Viadrina, and subsequently taught Applied Humanities at the European Humanities University in Vilnius. Since 2016 he has been

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki was born in 1962 in Wólka Krowicka, a village near the Polish-Ukrainian border in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. In his homeland the poet has cult status; he has published numerous volumes of poetry and a volume of prose. He also writes for the cultural magazine of

Elvira Grözinger

Elvira Grözinger was born in 1947 in Lower Silesia, Poland, and grew up in Israel. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as in Heidelberg and in Frankfurt/Main. She gained her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin where she later taught. Before that she was an

Dorota Maslowska

Dorota Masłowska was born in Wejherowo, Poland in 1983. While preparing for her school-leaving examinations, she wrote her first novel »Wojna polsko-ruska pod flag bialoczerwon« (2002; Eng. »Snow White and Russian Red«, 2005) in less than a month. It became a bestseller and was translated into more than twenty languages.

Dorota Terakowska

Dorota Terakowska was born in Poland in 1938 and works as a journalist for the popular Cracow magazine ‘Przekrój’. She made her debut in 1986 with the children’s fairytale ‘Babci Brygydy szalona podró’ po Krakowie’ (Engl: Grandma Brygida’s Mad Journey through Cracow). Her 1989 short story ‘W∏adca Lewawu’ (Engl: The

Daniel Odija

Daniel Odija was born in Słupsk in 1974.  He studied Polish Literature at Gdansk University and published texts in various magazines.  Following a collection of short stories, and a volume of poetry, his first novel, ‘Ulica’ (Engl: The Street), appeared in 2001; for this he was awarded the Art Prize

Bohdan Piasecki

He was born in Warsaw in 1980. Poland’s first Slam poet launched the first Poetry Slams in the Cultural Palace in Warsaw. He obtained his post-doctoral qualification at the University of Warwick in the academic field of poetry translation. Piasecki writes and performs in English and Polish. He is a

Basil Kerski

the political scientist, author and journalist was born in 1969 into a Polish-Iraqi family and grew up in Iraq, Poland and Germany. He has worked for, among others, the FU Berlin, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, the German Parliament and the Aspen Institute Berlin. He has been editor in

Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum was born in Washington D. C. in 1964. She studied history and literature at Yale and international relations in London. After working as a correspondent for the »Economist« in Warsaw from 1988, she went on to work as an editor for the »Washington Post« from 2002 to 2006,

Anna Onichimowska

Anna Onichimowska was born in Poland in 1952 and studied Polish Language and Literature.  For several years she worked as a children’s book publisher and editor and in 1980 brought out her own collection of poems, ‘Gdybym miał konia’ (Engl: If I had a Horse).  Since then she has published

Andrzej Bart

Andrzej Bart (b. 1951), writer and film director, is called the Polish Thomas Pynchon because he likes people to talk about his books and films but would prefer if they left him alone. He devoted his young years to writing a novel »Rien ne va plus«. This epic story of

Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk was born in 1960 in Warsaw. During the early 1980s he was involved in the Polish pacifist opposition movement »Ruch Wolność i Pokój« and deserted from military service, for which he was sentenced to a year and a half in jail. His experiences in prison were dealt with