We invite you to a meeting with Katarzyna Groniec - singer, songwriter and musician. For her debut book "Kundle" [published by Nisza] she was nominated for three awards - the Gdynia Literary Award, the Witold Gombrowicz Award, and the Conrad Award. And it is this book that Prof. Igor Borkowski will talk to her about, during the last meeting of the Concordia Talks series before summer vacation.
25.06.2025 6 pm
Concordia Design Wrocław, Wyspa Słodowa 7
NOTE - admission is free, reservations apply:
https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-71/
Katarzyna Groniec:
Winner of the main prize at the Young Talent Festival in Poznań (1988), she made her debut with the role of Anka in the musical "Metro" at the Dramatic Theater (1991). In 1997, at the Actors' Song Festival, she won the Grand Prix, First Prize and Journalists' Prize, where she sang Hemar's "Unmasking Song" and Brel's "Amsterdam." In 2008, she received the Alexander Bardini Master's Diploma for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Acting Song. She is the winner of the 2024 Fryderyk Award in the Literary and Poetic Song category for , "Constellations.
In her own words:
I am a singer. I was born in Zabrze on 22.02.1972, and I didn't like the fact that there were so many twos in this date. I started to speak quickly, but I didn't want to walk. To provoke me to exert myself, toys were taken away from me and put a little farther away than at arm's length. I played with my fingers. I made my singing debut at my sister's communion at one and a half years old. To general consternation with the Dabrowski Mazurka. I liked to write but hated twos and the question: how can someone who reads so much bang so many orts? I decided to communicate by singing. In my fifties, I gained courage.
Igor Borkowski, Professor of Humanities, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Communication at SWPS University in Wroclaw. He began as a journalist for the "Wieczor Wrocław" and a researcher of the language of political propaganda (hence the book: Dawn of Free Speech. The language of political propaganda in the press 1981-1995). He became fascinated with reportage and journalistic interviewing. This first fascination yielded a book: The Last Summer of Pilc. A Handbook of Practical Reportage Writing, and the latter an interview-row How Borkowska with Borkowski. Sr. Małgorzata Borkowska OSB is interviewed by Igor Borkowski. Through his work with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, he has conducted reporter workshops in Tel Aviv and taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Whenever he has a free moment, he gathers eager USWPS Students and together they create and publish literary fiction in the series Variations without Repetition.
The book "Mongrels"
A bravura debut. A town between Zabrze and Rybnik. Not far from Toszek, a German Tost, with a huge madhouse. During the war years there was a prisoner of war camp for the English. It is immortalized in at least three books. One of them was written by Sir P.G. Wodehouse. Later, an NKVD prison operated there. Three thousand victims. We won't learn that from Kundli. A quarter of a century has passed. The city is a dumping ground for survivors. Incomplete families, double identities, battered souls. Silesian autochthons, displaced persons from the Borderlands, Jews, Roma, Germans. And above it all - a narrative instance that sees everything separately. Because it is impossible to merge it. This is a place where the bond between language and the world has broken, where non-conclusivity reigns, and an existential abyss opens up in the everyday. Groniec's prose balances on the edge of this abyss - ordinary and extraordinary at the same time - with a dexterity of literary ear and language that is the envy of more than just debutantes.
Eliza Kącka
--
Organizer: Concordia Design Wrocław
Co-organizer: SWPS University, Department of Journalism and Social Communication at SWPS University in Wrocław, Poland
Patron: Nawrot - Renault Dealer
Partner: Wroclaw Council of Women
