Polish television personality

Kazimiera Szczuka (born 22 June 1966 in Warsaw) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic, feminist and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Selected publications
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life and career

She was born on 22 June 1966 to father Stanisław Szczuka, a lawyer and a political dissident in the times of PRL, and mother Janina (née Winawer), a doctor from an *imilated Polish-Jewish family. She is a great-great-granddaughter of chess player Szymon Winawer. She is a graduate of the University of Warsaw where she obtained her MA degree under supervision of Maria Janion.

Szczuka is a member of the Greens 2004 party, advocate of LGBT rights and supporter of pro-choice rights for women. She is a member of the Programme Council of the green political foundation the Green Ins*ute.

In March 2006, Szczuka satirized on a TV programme a young woman who frequently recites prayers on Radio Maryja, claiming to not know that the woman "suffered from a crippling disease and used a wheelchair." Despite Szczuka's public apology, she was found guilty of "insulting a disabled person and mocking her religion" by the Polish National Broadcasting Council, and the station on which she had appeared was fined 500,000 PLN.

Szczuka complained later, "They hate me because I'm a feminist, I'm Jewish – mostly because I'm a feminist" in an interview for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

She works for TVN24 in Wydanie drugie poprawione. She has worked since 2003 for TVN in Najsłabsze Ogniwo (the Polish version of The Weakest Link) and in Dwururka. She has also appeared as a juror on Top Model TV show and as an expert on Milionerzy game show.

Selected publications

• Kopciuszek, Frankenstein i inne ("Cinderella, Frankenstein and Others"), Kraków, 2001
• Milczenie owieczek. Rzecz o aborcji, Warsaw, 2004
• Duża książka o aborcji (co-written with Katarzyna Bratkowska); Warsaw 2011
• Janion. Transe – traumy – transgresje. 1: Niedobre dziecię (co-written with Maria Janion; Warsaw 2012
• Janion. Transe – traumy – transgresje. 2: Profesor Misia (co-written with Maria Janion); Warsaw 2012

See also

• Feminism in Poland

References

External links

• Szczuka's profile on the website of the Polish version of The Weakest Link Archived 25 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
• Green Ins*ute