CZYTELNIA / LESERAUM - On Maciej Falkowski's book "Our Germans"
About the event
The Foundation for Polish‑German Cooperation invites you to a meeting in the CZYTELNIA / LESERAUM series.
About the book by Maciej Falkowski “Our Germans”
The author will be in conversation with Stasia Budzisz.
Where: Foundation for Polish‑German Cooperation, ul. Zielna 37 (Sala Europa, 6th floor), Warsaw
When: March 17, 7:00 PM
Please confirm your attendance. Registration for the event until March 15.
After the meeting: a glass of wine.
We invite you to the premiere meeting together with Czarne Publishing House.
About the book:
In his reportage the author finds iron houses in the Pyzdry Forest, searches for remnants of Olęder settlers along the Vistula, visits descendants of the Głuchoniemcy in Subcarpathia and the Bambrzy in Poznań. He talks about Evangelicals, Moravian Brethren and Mennonites. He tries to save from oblivion the world of those who after 1945 had to leave Poland; he describes the fates of those who decided to stay and became part of Polish society.
About the author:
Maciej Falkowski – a graduate of international relations and eastern studies at the University of Warsaw. A long-time analyst at the Centre for Eastern Studies. He also worked at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Yerevan and at the Foundation of International Solidarity. Currently an employee of the Ministry of Development and Technology. Author of the books Armenia. Closed Circuit and Nobility. Stories from the Podlasie‑Mazovia borderlands, for which he received the Literary Magazine “Książki” Award, co-author of the collection of reportages about the North Caucasus Matryoshka in a Hijab. He has also written, among others, for Tygodnik Powszechny and Nowa Europa Wschodnia. His little homeland is the borderland of Mazovia and Podlasie.
About the interlocutor:
Stasia Budzisz – reporter, journalist and Russian translator. For many years she has cooperated with Polish media as a freelancer. Her publications can be found, among others, on OKO.press, Krytyka Polityczna, Nowa Europa Wschodnia, Przekrój and PostPravda.info as well as in Tygodnik Powszechny. She has published two reportage books: Pokazucha. On Georgian Terms (2019) and Welewetka. How the Kashubians Disappear (2023). The book about the Kashubians was repeatedly nominated for important reportage awards and won the main prize for best reportage at the Vivelo Book Awards 2024, the first prize for the best book about the Kashubians COSTERINA and the Readers' Prize as part of the Pomeranian Literary Award. Stasia Budzisz was also a grantee of the Minister of Culture, the City of Gdańsk and the EPIC program. As a reporter and correspondent she covered, among others, the wars in Karabakh, the exodus of Armenians from Karabakh, the war in Ukraine and the elections and protests in Georgia.
About the Czytelnia / Leseraum series:
Literature is a mirror in which Polish‑German relations are also reflected. For years the Foundation for Polish‑German Cooperation has supported literary exchange – translations, scholarships and cooperation between writers, translators and publishers. Books are the heroes of meetings on Zielna – open to the public. We invite you to talks about new releases, debates, presentations of reportages and meetings with authors, critics and translators.
We invite you to shared reading and conversation in the Czytelnia / Leseraum on Zielna.
