Conrad Festival 2022
CommunitiesUnica Zürn. A Knife in the Wound
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Translation as a Form of an Anagram A Discussion with Małgorzata Łukasiewicz and Natalia Kruszyna
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A Queer Reading Lesson with Maja Heban
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Community as a Challenge. Meeting with Roberto Esposito
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The Rights of all Beings. Meeting with Eva Meijer
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About People that No One Cares About. Meeting with Óscar Martínez
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Baby Broker / Broker
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A Queer Reading Lesson with Joanna Ostrowska
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What is the Community Afraid of? Meeting with Verena Kessler
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Silesianness Wanted Immediately Meeting with Zbigniew Rokita
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Portraits of New Worlds. Meeting with Alfian Sa’at
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Godland
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A Queer Reading Lesson with Remigiusz Ryziński
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An Unpalatable Family. Meeting with Shalom Auslander
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The Author in the Digital World
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Relations, Relationships, Dependencies. Meeting with Leïla Slimani
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Eviction. Discussion with the participation of Sylwia Chutnik, Michał Kmiecik, Michał Otłowski and Jakub Żulczyk
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Tini zabutykh predkiv/ Cienie zapomnianych przodków
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A Queer Reading Lesson with Błażej Warkocki
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Why Do We Need Compulsory Reading?
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What Will the Book Market Be Like in 10 Years’ Time? The Publishers’ Perspective
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Games Played by Two A Discussion on Unica Zürn with Friederike Beck and Sabine Scholl
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Classics Known and Discovered: Retranslations and New Translations
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Remembering. Meeting with Tanya Malyarchuk
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When Will the 20th Century End? Meeting with Artur Domosławski
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Les Jeux à deux
Les Jeux à deux
dir. Friederike Beck, Germany 1995
Host: Friederike Beck
In the 1950s, Unica Zürn was enchanted by the writings of the Parisian Surrealists: in her poems and prose, she described her alienation from reality and her inner turmoil. When in 1970 she threw herself from the apartment window of her partner, the painter and sculptor Hans Bellmer, she was almost unknown in her native Germany. Her work only began to attract attention in the 1980s.
The semi-documentary film Les Jeux à deux is based on original texts by Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer. Interviews with contemporaries of the film’s protagonists are woven into fictional scenes recounting their relationship and go back to the writer’s childhood. “Discovering innocence and pushing boundaries, self-creation and self-destruction played an important role in the life and work of Unica Zürn, and for me, as a young student, they were so fascinating that I decided to take a closer look at them and make them the subject of my film.” (Friederike Beck). The Nuremberg House in Kraków is a partner of the event.
*ticketed screening
27 October, at 21:00 Pod Baranami Cinema
Zen of the Peszeks. Meeting with Maria and Jan Peszek
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A Queer Reading Lesson with Aldona Kobus
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Connecting Emerging Literary Artists. Speed Dating: Publishers and Translators
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The Right to Facts
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Beyond Drama and Towards Prose. A Discussion with Marta Sokołowska, Ishbel Szatrawska and Szczepan Twardoch
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Connecting Emerging Literary Artists. New Voices from Europe, or a Literary Soiree at the Potocki Palace & Open Mic
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Ukraine, or the West. Meeting with Mykola Riabchuk
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With a Story into the Darkness. Meeting with Mariana Enriquez
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November
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Wolf Tracks A Meeting and Workshop with Daniel Mizieliński and Michał Figura
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How to Invite an Author?
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Bookshops: How to Save Oneself?
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Ancient Communities. Meeting with Ewa Klekot and Andrzej Muszyński
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Tilda, Lukas, Andrus and Other Charming Dust Angels A Meeting with Andrus Kivirähk
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Ukraine: what next? How to support the Ukrainian book industry and cultural audiences?
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The Prix Goncourt. Meeting with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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Reading Ukraine. Natalka Bilotserkivets and her guests: Urszula Honek, Ryszard Krynicki, Joanna Oparek, Michał Sobol
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We Haven’t Lost Our Way
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A Devil, a Kratt, a Trupibut and Others. Meeting with Andrus Kivirähk
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An Exit from the Dream House. Meeting with Carmen Maria Machado
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Tomasz’s Mission, or Philosophy for Everyone
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Let’s Fly Away! By Aeroplane! A Meeting and Workshop with Jacek Ambrożewski
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Football and Anti-Semitism. A Discussion with Michał Okoński and Rafał Rosół
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About Poland from Outside of Poland. A Discussion with Natasza Goerke, Weronika Gogola and Grażyna Plebanek
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The Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Writing Academy. We Must Do Better, or a Masterclass by Jan Gondowicz
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An Escape from Conrad’s Hell. Meeting with Michał Komar
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The Hell of Two People Is Hotter. Meeting with Ayfer Tunç
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Conrad Award Gala
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