Return to Poland
Emilia Smechowski came to Germany as a child. As a renowned reporter, she returned to Poland, her home country, which had become foreign to her, to experience and explore what concerns Poles ...
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Emilia Smechowski, born 1983 in Poland, fled with her family to West Berlin in 1988. She works as a freelance author and reporter for Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, among others. She has received many awards for her reportage, including the German Reporter Award. In 2017 she published Wir Strebermigranten. After a year in Gdansk, she now lives in Berlin again. On Twitter: @emilia_owski and on Facebook
The Striving Migrants
Emilia was still Emilka, when her parents put her in the car one evening and left the greyness of Poland for West Berlin. That was in 1988. Shortly afterwards, she had a new name, a new language ...
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