The churches are shrinking in East and West: here a church for connoisseurs, there a church for confessors.

— Jeannine Luczak-Wild (b. 1938), Slawistin, Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Übersetzerin und Aphoristikerin

Jeannine Luczak-Wild

Jeannine Luczak-Wild (* 1938) ist eine Schweizer Slawistin, Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Übersetzerin und Aphoristikerin aus Basel. Bekanntheit erlangte sie durch Übersetzungen polnischer Literatur sowie durch pointierte Aphorismen zu Themen wie Freiheit, Macht und Glauben. Für Bibelleser bieten ihre Sinnsprüche scharfsinnige Denkanstöße zur Reflexion über existenzielle Fragen und geistige Unabhängigkeit.

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