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polish writer and poetess, born in 1960 in Poznań,
studied the Polish language and literature as well as
Far Eastern languages at the
universities of Poznań, Kraków
and Hamburg (1979–91).
Since 1985 she has lived in Hamburg and Poznań. She has travelled to Tibet,
India and Nepal. She has contributed to literary
periodicals, such as ‘brulion’, ‘Czas Kultury’,
‘Twórczość’, ‘Odra’, and ‘Bundesstrasse
1’.
She is regarded as one of the most outstanding representatives of the
so-called ‘brulion generation’, which launched its periodical in
1986 as an unofficial publication, outside the state-controlled network, and
which stood for a ra-
dical change of outlook, advoca-ting primarily a departure from the
narrowly-conceived national tradition.
In 1993 Natasza Goerke received an award from the periodical ‘Czas
Kultury’. In 1995 she was awarded
a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude. A year later the Poznań-based
‘Obserwator’ Publishing House brought out a collection of her
short stories Fractale, sklepy prześcieradłowe, (Fractale, White Goods
Shops) and in 1997 – Księga pasztetów (A Book of PČtés). In
1999 she published Pożegnania plazmy (Farewells to Plasma,
‘Czarne’ Publishers) and, in 2002, 47 na odlew (47 and a Smack
in the Face, ‘Prószyński & S-ka’). In 2003 Natasza Goerke
was nominated for the the prestigious ‘Nike’ Polish literary
award.
A selection of Natasza Goerke’s short stories has been published in
German under the title Sibirische Palme. It has also been translated into
English (Farewells to Plasma), Serbian and Slovak. Her German language
editions also include Abschied vom Plasma (Hamburg, Rospo Verlag 2000) and
Rasante Erstarrung (Innsbruck, Skarabeus 2003).
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