She resisted, and they made her subject. Rebellious, threatened, wounded, wanted, always last
What was it? Home to fish and other wonderful animals, a trend that hides historical treasures, a navigational route, a tool for political propaganda, a brand. She was inspiring and inspired the artists. I created the inhabitants of Wroclaw – “at home”, and not “from Lviv, Vilnius, Tarnopol”, they felt when they had to fight for their home during the flood. Who did you become? Petitioners appealing to grant her legal personality write: “Oder, which is the property of her and all of us, to an equal degree.” “It is a request for recognition of reality: recognition of a living river in the Odra deserves the right to live.”
– But where do you have the river here? – asked the writer Anna Siblak (author of “To be clean” and “Blow up”, among others), who at that time was working at the Regional Institute of Culture in Katowice. Cieplak conducted educational classes with young people and coordinated social and cultural projects in the city. It was June 2019. Cieplak spent all her days on the river and passionately talked about how she fell in love with the Odra River. I, born in Kostrzyn on the Odra, was convinced that I knew this river well. I was surprised by a writer from Zagłębie’s sudden interest in her. Cieplak was born and raised in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Neither there nor in Katowice I saw Oder with my own eyes.
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