Gustaw Morcinek
Gustaw Morcinek (actually Augustyn Morcinek ; born August 25, 1891 in Karwin , then Austria-Hungary ; † December 20, 1963 in Krakow ) was a Polish writer , publicist and politician .
Life
Morcinek was born in a poor miner's family in the Moravian-Silesian industrial area in Cieszyn Silesia . His father died in a mine accident in the Johanna mine three years later.
Morcinek also began working underground when he was 16. When he was 19 years old, the miners raised money so that he could attend the teachers' seminar for the elementary school in Biala , Galicia . After the outbreak of World War I he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. As a soldier, he took part in the storming of the garrison in Teschen in October 1918 and thus in the Propolian coup in Teschen Silesia. From the beginning of the 1920s, Morcinek worked as a teacher in Skoczów , where a museum now commemorates him. At the same time he worked as an editor for the Teschener magazine Zaranie Śląskie (Silesian Dawn) and published articles in the newspaper Dziennik Cieszyński . Between 1936 and 1939 he lived abroad, a. a. in France, Italy, Austria, Denmark and Germany. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , he returned to his homeland and was imprisoned immediately after the German invasion because he was accused of anti-German activities in his articles and literary works. a. he called the dog of a novelist "Bismarck". Morcinek spent the following five years in the Nazi concentration camps Škrochovice , Sachsenhausen and Dachau . After the liberation he returned to Upper Silesia and became involved in the new communist system, which granted him a number of privileges.
From 1952 to 1957 he worked as a member of the Kattowitz constituency in the Sejm . In this function he - who was considered a typical representative of Polish Upper Silesia - was forced by the highest organs in 1953 to submit an official application to rename the city of Katowice to Stalinogród. Morcinek died in 1963 and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Teschen. His life was filmed in the 1980s by the Upper Silesian director and folklorist Antoni Halor under the title Siedem zegarków Gustawa (Gustaw's Seven Clocks).
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Morcinek is considered to be the most important representative of Polish-language Silesian literature in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote a number of novels in which he a. engaged in the life of miners and common people. In addition to the authentic presentation, he was praised for his humor. Especially in the years before 1939, the literary pupil of the writer Zofia Kossak was also extremely successful with the public. He also wrote children's and young people's books and fairy tales, and he was known as an obsessed letter writer. His works have been translated into several languages and have received several state awards.
Publications
- Byli dwaj bracia (German: There were two brothers in 1928)
- Serce za tamą (1929)
- Wyrąbany chodnik (1931–32)
- Narodziny serca (German: Born hearts 1932)
- Łysek z pokładu Idy (1933)
- Śląsk (1933, monograph)
- Chleb na kamieniu (German: bread by the fireplace ), (collection of novels)
- Inżynier Szeruda (1937)
- Listy spod morwy (1945, camp memories)
- Ludzie są dobrzy (German: people are good 1946)
- Dziewczyna z Champs-Elysées (Camp Memories) (German: The girl from the Champs-Élysées. Tales from Dachau and Auschwitz , East Berlin 1965)
- Listy z mojego Rzymu (camp memories)
- Wyorane kamienie (1946)
- Uśmiech na drodze (1948)
- Pokład Joanny (1950) (German: Schacht Johanna , Weimar 1953)
- Ondraszek (1953, historical novel) (German: robber, avenger and rebel , Weimar 1955)
- Jak górnik Bulandra diabła oszukał (1958, Silesian fairy tale)
- Gwiazdy w studni powieść dla dzieci
- Zabłąkane ptaki
- Urodzaj ludzi (German: born people )
- Czarna Julka (German: The Black Julka , East Berlin 1965)
- Przedziwne śląskie powiarki (1961, Silesian fairy tales)
- Górniczy zakon (1964)
- Ziemia cieszyńska (monograph)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustaw Morcinek in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morcinek, Gustaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morcinek, Augustyn (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer, publicist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karviná |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1963 |
| Place of death | Krakow |