Draft:Anna Stroka

Anna Salomea Stroka (15 April 1923–10 July 2020) was a Polish philologist, literary historian and university lecturer.

Early life
After graduating from high school in Racibórz, she moved to Breslau in 1948, where she studied German language and literature at the university and graduated with a master's degree in 1953. In 1962 she received her doctorate and was employed as a research assistant at the University of Wrocław.

After her habilitation in 1974, she was employed as a university lecturer at the University of Wrocław. In 1992 she was appointed professor and from 2002 she worked at the Philological College in Wrocławiu.

She researched and published writings on the brothers Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann as well as monographs on German poetry and German and Austrian drama from the 18th to the 20th century. In 1982 she published the tragicomedy Die Ratten by Gerhart Hauptmann. She was also involved in the editing and publication of several volumes of Carl Hauptmann's complete edition.

Anna Stroka was a long-standing member of, among others: Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Wrocław Scientific Society (Wrocławskie Towarzystwo Naukowe), Verband Polnischer Germanisten (VPG) (Stowarzyszenie Germanistów Polskich), Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft e. V. in Neuruppin and the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar e. V.

Selected publications

 * Carl Hauptmann's career as a thinker and poet. Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław 1965. Carl Hauptmann's career as a thinker and poet (= Hauptmanniana.part 2). Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940310-43-9. with Eugeniusz Klin: German poetry until the beginning of the 20th century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1967. with Marian Szyrocki: The German Drama of the 18th Century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1972. with Konrad Gajk, Marian Szyrocki: The German Drama of the 20th Century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1985. et al.: German literature in Poland after the Second World War. *On the *Possibility and Impossibility of Building Spiritual Bridges. Cultural Foundation of German Expellees, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-88557-152-8. et al.: Gerhart Hauptmann in Polish Criticism 1945–1990. Wrocław *University Press, Wrocław 1992. Eugeniusz Tomiczek (editor): Vita pro litteris. Festschrift für Anna Stroka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1993, ISBN 83-01-11258-1. History of German literature from its beginnings to the Baroque. Wydawnictwo Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna, Wrocław 2018, ISBN 978-83-60097-76-2.

Editorial and editorial work

 * [with Marian Szyrocki, Mieczysław Urbanowicz: The German and Austrian Drama of the 19th Century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1971. Gerhart Hauptmann: The Rats. Berlin tragicomedy. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-351370-X. [with ] Eberhard Berger, Hans-Gert Roloff: Carl Hauptmann; All works. Scientific edition with commentary. 1977 ff. 16 volumes of texts and 16 commentaries as well as a supplement. Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-7728-1761-8. et al.: Carl Hauptmann; All works. Cz. VIII, 1: Late Narratives. Text. Cz. VIII, 1, Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-7728-1740-3.

Translations

 * Maciej Łagiewski: The Pantheon of Wrocław's Jews. The Jewish cemetery on Lohe Street in Breslau (The Matzevot speak). Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-884-5. Mieczysław Zlat: Wrocław Town Hall. *Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław 1977. Marcin Bukowski: Wrocław Cathedral (Wrocław Cathedral). Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław 1974 Krzysztof Czarnecki: Świdnica / Świdnica – A tourist guide. *Wydawnictwo DTSK Silesia, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-85689-62-1.