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Magdalena Marszałkowska

Born in Kraków in 1977, she lives in Vienna. Since 2010 she has worked in theatre as a director, author, producer and assistant director with independent theatre groups in Austria, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. In 2013 she co-founded the bilingual theatre XYZ, which she chaired. The company performed mainly in Austria and toured to Germany, Slovakia and Poland. In 2022 she was artist in residence (Dramatikerin in Residenz) at the HIN & WEG theatre festival in Litschau. Her plays are represented by Kaiser Verlag in Vienna.

For many years she worked as a journalist. For the magazine “Polonika” she wrote features and columns and conducted interviews. From 2012 to 2019 she reviewed films and books for “Monitor Polonijny”, published in Slovakia. Since 2025 she has been a columnist for the magazine “Kraków i Świat”.

  • Education
  • Slavonic studies

    University of Vienna
  • Art history

    University of Wrocław
  • Further training
  • Warsztat pisania scenariusza i dramatu

    Playwriting and screenwriting, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
  • Studium Terapii przez Sztukę

    Art therapy, Kraków Chamber Opera
  • Dramaturgy and drama education

    further courses
  • Awards
  • Finalist, “Wyobraź Sobie”

    Polish screenplay competition, project “One Night Stand”, 2024
  • Polak Roku we Włoszech i na Świecie

    First place, artistic activity category, awarded on 9 October 2021 at Castello Savelli near Rome
  • Złota Sowa Polonii

    Theatre category, for 2015, awarded on 2 April 2016 in Vienna
  • Marek Hłasko Award

    Distinction for a short story, awarded by the magazine “Jupiter”