Agnieszka Haupe-Kalka (born 13 June 1970 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish fairy tale poet, game designer and translator.
Biography She is the granddaughter of the resistance fighters of "AK Jemioły" and Auschwitz/Buchenwald survivor Maria Haupe (alias "Black Lady") and Wacław Haupe (alias "Młody szofer").
As a member of the Literary Society "Die Huelle" she was a co-organizer of the festival Grochowice '93 it the tenth anniversary of the death of Edward Stachura. In 1994 the Literary Society was awarded the prize of the Mayor of Zielona Góra.
1996 and 1998 she was a participant in the German-Polish poets steamer,Odra poetów. In: Gazeta Zachodnia. Sept. 1998.Deutsch-polnischer Austausch auf dem Poetendampfer. In: Berliner Morgenpost. 7. September 1998. where she met the German singer-songwriter Dieter Kalka and married on 12 September 1998 in Frankfurt (Oder)Poeten-Dampfer stiftet eine Hochzeit unter Autoren./ Poets Steamer donates a wedding amongst authors. In: Oberbayrisches Volksblatt. 6. August 1998. ("Poets wedding").Happy-End einer Dampfer-Liebe, Deutsch-polnische Autorenhochzeit/Happy end of a steamer-love, German, Polish author wedding. In: Märkische Oderzeitung. 6. August 1998.
With Jolanta Pytel, Katarzyna Jarosz-Rabiej and Władysław Klępka she founded in 1995 the "Association of the still living poets" in Zielona Góra and co-organized the "Uniwersytet poezji" (1995–1998),University of poetry a participant in the German-Polish poetry festival "word lust" in Lublin in 1997 and worked on the publication of the anthology "Lublin Lift/Lubelska winda".Lubliner Lift With Dieter Kalka they founded the project: "Children invent tales",Grundschule Stahmeln, MärchenprojektTales/Märchen/Bajki took part in the radio drama festival in Rust (Austria) with the radio play "mirror images of two languages" part.Hörspielauszug Prose and poetry in the German language have been published in Ostragehege Nos. 9Ostragehege and on Portal Poland.Texts in Polish/German/English at Portal PolandBajki na/ Fairytale project at PortalPolen
Agnieszka Haupe developed board and other games and participated in the games fair in Göttingen. From 1996 to 2005 she lived in Leipzig/Germany and Zielona Góra/Poland, studied 2005/2006 German studies at the University of Zielona Góra and has lived in County Kerry/Ireland since of 2006. Her texts have been translated into English and German.
Works Krajobrazy czułego dotyku / The Landscapes of tender touch. Poetry. Organon, Zielona Góra 2010, (Polish – English). Skrzydła wiatru. Poetry. Poddasze Poetów, Zielona Góra 1999, . Pradawne Pieśni. Prose. ProLibris, Zielona Góra 2009, . Żywe oczy wiersza / Augen des Gedichts, anthology, Polish-German, publisher Jolanta Pytel and Czesław Sobkowiak, Organon Zielona Góra 2001, .
Bibliography Danuta Piekarska: Buchhalter pisze wiersze. In: Gazeta Lubuska. 27./28. June 1998. Bahaidzi z rzeki. In: Gazeta Lubuska. 14. September 1998. Rejs do Szczecina. In: Kurier Szczeciński. 17. September 1998. Marta Fox: Jak korek na fali ... In: Śląsk. Nr 11/13, 1996. Feuerlöscher und Hydrant, 3 1/2 fairy tales, with Dieter Kalka, Edition Beulenspiegel, AndreBuchverlag, Lengenfeld 2023, . Afront, Oświęcim. Auschwitz. 13 wizyt, prose, translation by Agnieszka Haupe, Bukowno 2022. Website literary magazine Afront Bronisław Słomka: Błędni rycerze. In: Gazeta Lubuska. 2./3. November 1996. Katarzyna Jarosz-Rabiej: Statkiem Literackim. In: Gazeta Lubuska. Komunikaty Nr 6, 1996, S. 15. Polish Bibliography Polish poetry from Zielona Góra podcast
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