Na marginesie recepcji literatury RFN… Polski odbiór Heinza Piontka
On the margins of the German literature reception… Polish reception of Heinz Piontek

Summary/Abstract: For Heinz Piontek (1925–2003), a German writer from Silesia, the period of greatest popularity lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s. After initial success, especially in poetry, he was placed among the most interesting phenomena in the literature of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, at the end of his life he found himself on the margins of literary life and gradually fell into oblivion. Although his texts were translated into many foreign languages, he himself was never widely known in Poland. For many decades, the only book by Piontek published in Polish translation was the volume of short stories Gorące Kasztany [Hot Chestnuts] (1966). The article presents the Polish reception of this writer from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present day. The promisingly launched presentation of the writer in Poland includes translations of his poetry and few works in prose, scattered mostly in the press and in a few anthologies. It also includes sketches, reviews, articles, his presence in university scripts, textbooks on the history of German literature and dictionaries of writers, and in recent decades also in academic works (including book monographs) by Polish Germanists.

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