Adam Ważyk
Adam Ważyk , actually Adam Wagman (born November 17, 1905 in Warsaw ; † August 13, 1982 ibid) was a Polish poet, writer, essayist, translator of Jewish descent.
Life
Before the Second World War he was active in the circles of avant-garde left literature in Warsaw. 1924–1925 he was editor of the "Almanach Nowej Sztuki" (Almanac of New Art).
After the outbreak of war in 1939, he fled to Lemberg from the Nazi troops . When Lemberg was occupied by the Red Army after the secret Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact , he published some poems in the Soviet press. After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union , he continued to flee with the Soviet army. After the establishment of a Polish army under Soviet command, which consisted of Poles deported to the Soviet Union in 1939–1941, he was appointed political officer in 1942. He wrote lyrics of patriotic songs, including the "March of the 1st Army Corps". After the war he became a follower of the doctrine of socialist realism . After Stalin's death and the subsequent political thaw , he experienced a metamorphosis - he became a fierce critic of previous politics. In 1955 he published the "Poemat dla dorosłych" (poem for adults), in which he strongly criticized the conditions on the building sites of socialism. He was immediately attacked by the government-loyal critics.
In 1957 he tried to work on the creation of a monthly newspaper "Europa". He resigned from the Polish United Workers' Party to protest the closure of the newspaper . In 1964 Ważyk signed the “Letter of 34” protesting against the restriction of freedom of speech in the People's Republic of Poland. Thereafter, the censors imposed a ban on the publication of his works on radio and television.
Ważyk also signed a protest letter in 1968 against the suppression of student protests and the "Memorial 101" against the amendment of the Basic Law in the sense of "eternal friendship with the USSR".
Adam Ważyk also translated French poetry ( Arthur Rimbaud , Guillaume Apollinaire , Louis Aragon , Paul Éluard ) as well as works by Horace , Alexander Pushkin , Blaise Cendrars , Gérard de Nerval and Max Jacob .
Ważyk's poem You can't make me believe was used by the composer Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau in 1990 in his composition Ein Hirngespinst - Music for speaker, soprano and seven instruments .
Works (selection)
- as an author
- Wiersze Wybrane . 2nd edition Czytelnik, Warsaw 1982, ISBN 83-07-00653-8 .
- A poem for adults. Verses that started the Warsaw uprising . Büchner Verlag, Darmstadt 1956.
- Color of time ("Kolor czasu"). Bläschke, Darmstadt 1965 (The new poem; 16).
- as editor
- Surrealizm. Teorie i Praktyka literacke; antologia . Czytelnik, Warsaw 1976.
- Eseje literackie . PIW, Warsaw 1982, ISBN 83-06-00774-3 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Adam Ważyk in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ważyk, Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagman, Adam (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish poet, writer, essayist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1982 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |