Maciej Ganczar
Maciej Ganczar (born January 19, 1976, in Łódź) is a Polish literary scholar specializing in German literature, literary translator, author of publications for foreign language teaching, also in the field of languages for special purposes. Life. Maciej Ganczar was born on January 19, 1976, in Łódź, Poland, and he spent his childhood and youth in Piotrków Trybunalski, where he attended the Juliusz Słowacki 3rd Secondary School. He followed the course of German studies at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, at the Szczecin University and finally at the University of Silesia, where he was awarded a doctoral degree  in 2007. In 2020 he completed postgraduate studies in glottodidactics in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2001 he has lectured at many universities, among others at the University of Warsaw, the Medical Academy in Warsaw (now: Medical University of Warsaw) and Università del Salento in Lecce (Italy). He is currently the Head of the Centre for Foreign Languages and the Head of the Premed College at the Medical University of Warsaw, as well as a coursebook expert in the Polish Ministry of Education. He is also active as an editor and translator of  German literature, above all of theatrical plays. His translations include dramas by Marc Becker, Wilhelm Genazino, Kerstin Specht, Lukas Holliger, Wolfgang Sréter, Andrea M. Schenkel, Ödön von Horváth, Max Frisch, Rolf Hochhuth, Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Broch. Maciej Ganczar is also the editor of a scientific series devoted to links between medicine and the humanities "ars medica ac humanitas". Since 2011 he has been a member of the International Hermann Broch’s Society in Washington. In the same year he was appointed Chairman of the Polish Literary Translators' Association and he held the position for two terms, until 2017. Since  2015 he is also a member of the BRISTOL Association of Polish and Foreign Teachers of Polish Culture and Polish as a Foreign Language, as well as of the Polish Association for Theatre Research. In 2019 he joined Open Republic – Association against Antisemitism and Xenophobia. In 2016 he was awarded the Medal of the Commission of National Education.