Marek Śnieciński


Marek Śnieciński is a Polish poet, narrator, essayist, art critic, curator, documentary and translator German and English literature.

Biography

Marek Śnieciński graduated from the University of Wrocław. Since 1988 he works at the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław, where he gives lectures on contemporary art and photography. 2001-2002 he was the artistic director of the Photography Academy in Wrocław. In 2009 he defended his thesis on "German Photography of the 90s of the XX. Century. Photos Ideen". He has published over 100 articles on problems of the photograph of the XX. Century in Poland, Germany, Austria and Slovakia, edited some 20 catalogs and has curated several dozen exhibitions in the gallery the Prater Photographers from Breslau and the Galerie Pankow Polish Photography, Jerzy Lewczynski.
Marek Śnieciński was participant in the German-Polish poets steamer, the German-Polish Poetry Festival ":de:Lubliner Lift|wortlust" in 1997 Lublin and the Orpheus project in Wroclaw, Bad Muskau and Lwówek Śląski and at the "Literarisches Bett/Literary bed" in Ochsenwang. His texts have been published in literary magazines in Germany, Austria, the Slovakia and Poland. They were translated into German by Bettina Wöhrmann, Peter Gehrisch, Tina Stroheker and Dieter Kalka. Marek Śnieciński is a member of Wolfgang Hilbig-Gesellschaft Leipzig. Marek Śnieciński lives in Wroclaw.

Works

Poetry and Prose