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The Kraszewski-Museum in Dresden

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812 – 1887), Polish writer, publicist, historian and social politician is by far the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature. From 1863 onwards (after the repression of the January uprising in Poland) he lived in Dresden. He was buried in the crypt of the Pauline Fathers Monastery in Krakau, (Skałka), the Polish pantheon.

The Kraszewski museum in Dresden now sees itself as “a place for an intensive dialogue between Poles and Germans)”.

Kraszewski-Museum in Dresden

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Bibliography, a selection of German translations:

“Meister Twardowski. Der polnische Faust", translated by Hans Max, Vienna (no date)

“Morituri“, translated by Philipp Löbenstein, Leipzig 1878.

“Jermola der Töpfer“, translator unknown, Berlin 1947.

“Wie Herr Paul freite. Wie Herr Paul heiratete“, translated by Malvina Landesberger, Leipzig (no date).

“Reiseblätter“, translated by Caesar Rymarowicz, Berlin (no date).

“Tagebuch eines jungen Edelmannes“, translated by Henryk Bereska, Berlin 1955.

“Geliebte des Königs“, translated by Waldemar Krause, Rudolstadt 1956.

“König August der Starke“, translated by Kristiane Lichtenfeld, Leipzig 1997.

“Gräfin Cosel“, a reworking of an old anonymous translation by Elfriede Bergmann, Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1977 (authorised edition in two volumes, Vienna, Pest, Leipzig, A. Hartleben's Verlag 1880) (Part one of the Saxony trilogy)

“Flemmings List“, translated by Hubert Sauer-Zur, Leipzig 1996.

“Brühl“, translated by Alois Hermann, Rudolstadt 1952. (Part two of the Saxony trilogy)

“Aus dem Siebenjährigen Krieg“, translated by Alois and Liselotte Hermann, Rudolstadt 1953. (Part three of the Saxony Trilogy)

“Der Gouverneur von Warschau“, translated by Kristiane Lichtenfeld, Berlin 2003.

“Der Jude“, translator unknown, (no date) .

“Die zwei Alten“ translator unknown, Warsaw (no date).

“Der Dichter und die Welt”, translated by W. Constant, Berlin (no date).

“Ein heroisches Weib”, translated by Julius Meixner, Stuttgart 1885.

Additional bibliographical information:

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski wrote his Saxony novels “König August der Starke”, “Feldmarschall Flemming” and “Der Gouverneur von Warschau”, as well as his Saxony trilogy “Gräfin Cosel”, “Graf Brühl” and “Aus dem Siebenjährigen Krieg” in Dresden. In them Kraszewski paints a comprehensive and fascinating contemporary portrait of the kingdom of Saxony and Poland.

In the 1980s the Saxony trilogy was filmed by DEFA under the title “Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria” as a six part television serial for the GDR.