Gabriela Matuszek-Stec (born 31 December 1953 in Jaworzno) is a Polish literary historian, essayist, critic and translator of German literature.
Gabriela Matuszek-Stec (born 31 December 1953 in Jaworzno) is a Polish literary historian, essayist, critic and translator of German literature.
Matuszek-Stec [1] is a professor of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, specializing in the literature of the 19th and 20th century - primarily with Stanisław Przybyszewski, the naturalistic drama and modern prose, Polish-German literature associations and literary translation. From 1983 to 1987 she lectured on Polish literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, there was a visiting professor (2004 and 2006), as in Jena, Cologne, Leipzig, Vienna, Grenoble and Prague.
She received a scholarship of scientific and literary foundations, including German Schiller Society in Marbach am Neckar (1995, 1996), the Academy of Literature in Ranis (2002), the International Writers and Translators Center of Rhodes (2002), the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Gotland (2003). Since 1992 she has been a member of the Societas Jablonoviana in Leipzig.
She is the founder and director of the first "Polish Literature Institute" (Studium Literacko-Artystycznego). From 2005 to 2008 she was Vice-President, then to 2014 President of the Krakow branch of the Polish Writers' Union SPP since 2014 Member of the Board. Since 2007, Gabriela Matuszek editor of the literary magazine Studium and the "Krakow Library of the Polish Writers' Association" (since 2009). [2] Matuszek was a participant of the German-Polish poets steamer and the German-Polish poetry festivals “word lust“ in Lublin and is part of the close vicinity of this group of authors. [3] She is married to the Polish painter Grzegorz Stec.
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