Marek Kędzierski

PUBLICATIONS, ACTIVITIES SINCE 1990 - BOOKS / in Polish and English :

0. Samuel Beckett (co-author Jan Błoński) Czytelnik, Warsaw 1983
1. Samuel Beckett , Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1990
2. lucid intervals blind summits (a novel) Huntington , USA , 1992
3. bezludzie (a novel) Oficyna Literacka, Cracow 1994
4. modliszka (a novel) Oficyna Literacka, Cracow 1995
5. bez miary (a novel) Oficyna Literacka, Cracow 1997

DRAMA:

Półprawdy / Halftruths , English/, a play. Produced in Polish translation at Teatr Atelier, Cracow Nov. 1998
Halbwahrheiten /German/, a radio play. Production: SWR Broadcasting Company Baden-Baden Stuttgart June 2003
Velocitude /English/, a play (2004) Unpublished.

STAGE DIRECTING:

Samuel Beckett Watt , Bucklein Theatre, Cracow 1994
Samuel Beckett Endgame , Bucklein Theatre, Cracow 1995
Samuel Beckett Not I, Play Bucklein Theatre, Cracow 1997
Marek Kedzierski Halftruths Teatr Atelier, Cracow 1998
Thomas Bernhard Contra Heidegger , Teatr Atelier, Cracow , Teatr Rozmaitości Warsaw 1999-2003
Robert Pinget, The Inquisitory , Teatr Atelier Cracow 1999
Samuel Beckett Happy Days Stary /National/ Theatre Cracow 2002
Robert Pinget The Hypothesis , Teatr Atelier Cracow 2003

ADAPTATIONS:

Samuel Beckett Gesellschaft / Company / in collaboration with Author. Produced by Walter D. Asmus, Südwestfunk 1990
Samuel Beckett Watt Produced by Ulrich Gerhardt, Südwestfunk 1996 see also: RADIO
Robert Pinget The Inquisitory , staged Teatr Atelier Cracow Nov. 1999
Samuel Beckett Watt , Teatr Buckleina, Cracow , opened 13.3.1994
Thomas Bernhard Contra Heidegger , produced by Teatr Atelier, opened at the Austrian Consulate General in Cracow on 2.7.1999
Robert Pinget The Hypothesis, Teatr Atelier Cracow staged April 2003

RADIO (GERMANY):

Samuel Beckett Gesellschaft ( Compagnie) , adaptation for radio with Samuel Beckett´s participation, first broadcast in June 1990 (directed by Walter D. Asmus) by SWF/SR (Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart)

Alle die, die da fallen. Ein Funkessay ( All That Fall . A radio essay. First Broadcast SWF, August 1990

Embers. Ein Funkessay ( Embers. A radio essay. First broadcast SWF August 1990)

Worte und Musik. Ein Funkessay ( Words and Music . A radio essay. First broadcast SWF August 1990)

Cascando. Ein Funkessay ( Cascando . A radio essay. First broadcast SWF August 1990)

Pochade radiophonique. Ein Funkessay ( Radio I. A radio essay. First broadcast SWF Sept 1990)

Spielformen des Akustischen bei Samuel Beckett . Ein Funkessay (Samuel Beckett: acoustics and form
in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre. A radio essay. First broadcast SWF Baden-Baden Sept 1990)

Watt, nach gleichnamigen Roman von S. Beckett, ein Hörspiel, Produktion: SWF 1996. A production based on S. Beckett´s novel "Watt". Directed by Ulrich Gerhardt. Won the prize "Drama of the Month" Hörspiel des Monats April 1996

Halbwahrheiten , ein Hörspiel. Produktion: Südwestrundfunk SWR 1998

" Die Stimme erzeugt einen Schimmer." STIMMEN UND BILDER DER KÖRPER: Beckett´s "audio-visuals". DeutschlandRadio feature, first aired Oct. 2000

'Die Ungehorsamen - Jahrhundertverleger' DeutschlandRadio- Reihe Sept-Okt 2001
a series of radio broadcasts on the "disobedient publishers"

- Barney Rosset - Grove Press New York
- Jérome Lindon - Editions de Minuit Paris
- John Calder - Calder Publishing, London

And several radio features for SWF 2 und S2 Kultur broadcasting in Germany.

TRANSLATIONS
into Polish, in book form:

Samuel Beckett Watt , Pomorze Bydgoszcz 1993 (Eng)

Samuel Beckett: Malone meurt , Oficyna Literacka, Cracow 1997 (Fr)

Thomas Bernhard, Wittgensteins Neffe , Oficyna Literacka, Cracow 1997 (Germ)

Thomas Bernhard Der Untergeher , Czytelnik Warsaw 2002 (Germ)

Thomas Bernhard Alte Meister , Czytelnik Warsaw 2004 (Germ)

others:

masslos , fragment of Marek Kedzierski, bez miary , Variations 1999, Zürich (Polish into German by Martine Müller)

Thomas Bernhard Der Untergeher, Alte Meister , Wittgensteins Neffe, fragments, see BERNHARD Contra Heidegger

Stig Dagerman Upptacksresanden , a play (from Swedish, unpublished)

Thomas Bernhard Wittgensteins Neffe , Literatura na Swiecie, 1991 No. 6 (Germ)

David Mamet Speed-the-Plow ( Przerznac sprawe ) Dialog 1-2/1992 ( Warsaw ), a play first performed at Stary Teatr, Cracow March 1992 (Eng)

David Mamet Rozpad ( Decay ), published 1992 by Stary Teatr, Cracow 1992 (Eng)

Robert Brustein Dumbocracy in America ( Tepokracja w Ameryce ), essay published by Stary Teatr, Cracow 1994 (Eng)

David Mamet Oleanna Dialog 5/1994 (drama monthly, Warsaw ), a play first performed Stary Teatr Cracow April 1994

Gilles Deleuze Wyczerpany / L'Epuisé/ , KwArt. (Kwartalnik Artystyczny) 4/ 1996 (Fr)

Jonathan Kalb Beckett in Performance/ The Question of Beckett's Context op. cit.

Reinhart Mueller- Freienfels Erinnerungen an Beckett in Stuttgart , op. cit. (Ger)

Głosy i glosy: short texts by (among others) Roger Blin, Harold Bloom, Martin Esslin, David Warrilow, Billie Whitelaw, Ria Endres, Gottfried Büttner (Eng, Fr, Ger)

Samuel Beckett Mal vu mal dit / Źle widziane źle powiedziane/ , KwArt. 4/1996 (fragm) (Fr, Eng)

Martin Walser, Ein springender Brunnen, (fragm) KwArt. 4/1998 (Germ)

Marcel Bayer, Głosy o zmierzchu / Flughunde /, fragment, KwArt. 4/1998 (fragm) (Germ)

Doron Rabinovici W poszukiwaniu M . / Suche nach M /, fragment, KwArt. 4/1998 (fragm) (Germ)

Robert Pinget Inkwizytorium , KwArt. 2/1998 (fragm) (Fr)

Robert Pinget Chimera / Lubie /, KwArt. 2/1998 (Fr)

Robert Pinget Szepty / Chuchotements / KwArt. 2/1998 (Fr)

Madeleine Renouard, interview with Robert Pinget, KA 2/1998 (fragm) (Fr)

Samuel Beckett parę słów o milczeniu / L'innommable / (fragm) KwArt. 4/1999 (Fr)

Anthony Cronin Od Molloya do Nienazywalnego /fragment of The Last Modernist: Samuel Beckett /, KwArt. 4/1999

Lutfi Özkök Obrazy pamięci / Minnesilder /, KwArt. 4/1999 (Swed)

Samuel Beckett Mercier i Camier / Mercier et Camier /, (fragm) KwArt. 2/2000 (Fr)

Robert Pinget Apokryf /L'Apocryphe/ KwArt. 2/2000 (fragm) (Fr)

Alain Robbe-Grillet Ostatnie dni Henri de Corinthe'a / Les derniers jours de Corinthe /

KwArt. 2/2000 (fragm) (Fr)

Bernard-Marie Koltes Powrót na pustynię / Le retour au desert / Quai Ouest KwArt. 3/2001 (fragm) (Fr)

Christian Oster Pomoc domowa /Une femme de ménage/ (fragm) KwArt 3/2001 (Fr)

Alberto Giacometti Ecrits (Hier, sables mouvants; le Reve, Le sphinx et la mort de T.; Lettre a Pierre Matisse, Mai 1920) Kwartalnik Artystyczny 2-3 2003:

Alberto Giacometti Ma r éalité , Paris sans fin Galeria Starmach, Pro Helvetia Kraków 2003

Ernst Scheidegger Bregalia / Spuren einer Freundschaft / KwArt. 2-3 2003 (Germ)

Jean-Paul Sartre Uparte poszukiwanie absolutu / La recherche de l'absolu / KwArt 2-3 2003 (Fr)

David Sylvester Uwiecznić to, co ulotne / Perpetuating the transient / KwArt. 2-3 2003 (Engl.)

Jacques Dupin Rysunek Giacomettiego / Giacometti fragm./ KwArt. 2-3 2003 (Fr)

Charles Juliet ... realistyczne i wizjonerskie ... / Giacometti fragm./ KwArt. 2-3 2003 (Fr)

Magnus Hedlund Było to w Paryżu / Det var i Paris / (Swed)

Selected PAPERS:

Company for Radio: Adapting Beckett's prose . The Beckett Foundation, Reading, May 1990

The Space of Absence : Image and Voice in Beckett's Late Plays . Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco May 1991

Beckett's Legacy . Trinity College Dublin October 1991

Texts for Performance : S.Beckett's late works and the questions of dramatism, performability and genre . Samuel Beckett Festival, The Hague April 1992

Beckett's Audio-Visuals : Staging the issueless predicament of existence . Internationales Samuel Beckett Symposion. Duesseldorf Jan. 1993

Beckett and the (Un)Changing Image of the Mind : Beckett's Television Plays , in: The Savage Eye / L'Oeil fauve: New Essays on Samuel Beckett's Television Plays Catharina Wulf, ed. Rodolphi Publishers 1995

Translating Beckett

1. College international des Traducteurs Litteraires en Arles , Journees Beckett, May 1994
2. British Centre for Literary Translation, Norwich , England , 1996
3. Literarisches Colloquium , Berlin , October 1998

Samuel Beckett: Das Innere Theater , A lecture held at Cracow 's Goethe Institut in March 1997

Die Nestbeschmutzer : Witold Gombrowicz und Thomas Bernhard a lecture held at Universität Karlsruhe in 1995 in German, and at Biblioteka Austriacka, Breslau, Opole , Krakau, Przemysl, in Polish April 1997

SELECTED ARTICLES:

Po śmierci Thomasa Bernharda ( After Thomas Bernhard's Death ) "Literatura na Swiecie" (World Literature) Warsaw 1991 no. 6 (239)

Solipsysta na tropie bratniej duszy - Proza Thomasa Bernharda ( A Solipsist in Search of his Brethrens: Thomas Bernhard's prose ) "Literatura na Swiecie" 1991 No. 6 (239)

Charles Lyons, Samuel Beckett , review, in: Journal of Beckett Studies, Nos. 11-12 (1990)

Sidney Homan, Beckett's Theatres , review, in: Journal of Beckett Studies, Nos. 11-12 (1990)

Literary Exiles in the 20-th Century: An analysis and biographical dictionary , Martin Tucker, ed. Greenwood Press, Westport , Connecticut 1991.

-Samuel Beckett's entry
-Witold Gombrowicz's entry
-Slawomir Mrozek's entry
-Adam Tarn's entry

Mamet's Way . A conversation with Robert Scanlan Stary Teatr, Cracow 1992

Speed-the-Plow (Translator's Remarks) Teatr Wspólczesny, Warsaw 1993

"Oleanna" and political corectness. Essay. In: Programme to Stary Teatr's production of Mamet's play.

Mise en forme de la mort , an essay: "L´Europe", Paris juin 1993 (in French)

Poslowie (Afterword for Samuel Beckett's Watt ) Pomorze, Bydgoszcz 1993

Samuel Beckett and the (Un)Changing Image of the Mind : Beckett's Television Plays , in: The Savage Eye, Catharina Wulf, ed. Rodolphi Publishers 1995

Beckett and the issueless predicament of existence , Ed. Cycnos, Nice 1995

Proza Thomasa Bernharda ( T. Bernhard's Prose Works ), essay preceding the Polish translation of Thomas Bernhard's Wittgensteins Neffe Cracow 1997, Oficyna Literacka

Nie ten ptak, co wlasne gniazdo kala , (Die Nestbeschmutzer: Witold Gombrowicz und Thomas Bernhard) Didaskalia (theatre monthly) Cracow Dec. 1996

Avant-propos , Journées Beckett , Strasbourg 1996 (in French)

Sotto voce : Robert Pinget i sila niuansu ( Sotto voce: R Pinget and the power of the nuance , Kwartalnik Artystyczny 2/1998

Przyklad Suhrkampa (Suhrkamp's Example) Kwartalnik Artystyczny 4/1998

Dawne i nowe w Suhrkamp Verlag (The old and the new at Suhrkamp Verlag) , Magazyn Literacki, October 1999

Być pisarzem polskim w Niemczech /To be a Polish writer in Germany /, Dekada Literacka, 5/6 2002

Posłowie , Afterword for the Polish translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher , Czytelnik, Warsaw 2002

"Sztuka niezmiernie mnie interesuje"... Alberto Giacometti i "jego rzeczywistość" /Alberto Giacometti and "his reality", an esej/ KA 2-3/2003

Wer die Dichter will verstehen /essay on Beckett and Giacometti/ KA 4/2003

GUEST EDITOR:

Kwartalnik Artystyczny, (Art Quarterly, Bydgoszcz ) guest editor:
Samuel Beckett issue 4/1996
Robert Pinget issue 2/1998
Suhrkamp Verlag issue 4/1998
Samuel Beckett 2 issue 4/1999
Editions de Minuit issue 2/2000
Editions de Minuit 2 issue 3/2001
Alberto Giacometti issue 2-3/2003
Francis Bacon issue /forthcoming/
Harold Pinter isssue /forthcoming/
Literatura na Świecie (World Literature) guest editor, Thomas Bernhard issue 5/1991