Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
Joanna Olczak-Roniker is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków.Biography
Joanna Olczak was born on 12 November 1934 in Warsaw to a Polish-Jewish family, as a daughter of Tadeusz Olczak and Hanna Mortkowicz, famous poet and writer. Her maternal grandmother Janina de domo Horwitz also was a writer, while her husband Jakób Mortkowicz was a book publisher. Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is also related with Maksymilian Horwitz, a politician, and Kamilla Kancewicz, a doctor.
In 1994 she wrote a monograph about Piwnica pod Baranami and four years later a biography od Piotr Skrzynecki, founder of this cabaret. Olczak-Ronikier is also an author of many dramas, including Ja-Napoleon and Z biegiem lat, z biegiem dni....
In 2002 her memoir about her family's history W ogrodzie pamięci won the Nike Award and in 2011 she received the Klio Award for Janusz Korczak biography, Korczak. Próba biografii.
She was married twice: with a German journalist Ludwig Zimmerer, they had one daughter, Katarzyna Zimmerer ; and with a Polish translator Michał Ronikier.
