Jacek Bierezin

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Jacek Bierezin (born March 13, 1947 in Łódź , † May 26, 1993 in Paris ) was a Polish poet , a representative of the Polish New Wave and an opposition activist during the People's Republic of Poland .

Life

Jacek Bierezin was born the son of an officer in the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa). After graduating from high school, he began to work in the warehouse of the Łódź University Library in 1965. In 1967 he began to study Polish philology . Because of his opposition activities, he was imprisoned on December 8, 1970 to March 16, 1971 and sentenced to one year probation on November 23, 1971. Jacek Bierezin then continued his studies, but switched to ethnography in 1974 . In 1975 he was one of the signatories of List 59 , which protested against the amendment of the Polish constitution. Due to his involvement in the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), the University of Łódź refused him to continue his studies in 1976. Jacek Bierezin then founded the literary magazine Puls together with three other civil rights activists, including his wife Ewa Sułkowska-Bierezin , and took over the editor-in-chief until 1981. From 1978 he was a member of Amnesty International .

Because of his opposition activities he was arrested several times, most recently from December 13, 1981 to August 19, 1982. He then emigrated to Paris in November 1982, where he was granted political asylum in 1983 . In Paris he worked for Radio Free Europe and the Kultura magazine, among others . At the end of his life, Jacek Bierezin was struggling with mental health problems. In 1993 he died in a car accident in Paris, his grave is in the Doły cemetery in his hometown .

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His literary debut took place in 1966 in the Catholic monthly magazine Więź . He received awards a. a. 1972 at the Warsaw Poetry Autumn , 1973 at the Social Poetry Tournament and in the Spiewak Competition . He was also honored by Teatr Stu , Krakow, and Teatr Prób , Łódź, in their poetry programs . In 1973 his first volume of poetry, Lekcja liryki, was published by an official Łódź publisher. The second volume Wam rejected the censorship, so that it was published in 1974 by the Parisian exile publisher Institut Littéraire . From 1974 onwards, Jacek Bierezin was subject to a general printing ban in the People's Republic of Poland, which is why he was forced to publish in exile in the West or underground, including his volume of poems W połowie życia and the feature articles Z pustyni iz puszczy .

Jacek Bierezin's works dealt with the conflicts between civil rights activists and the socialist state, which was a provocation for them. He saw the task of poetry in being ethical and skeptical at the same time - with the right to express doubts. According to his own statement, his work was strongly influenced by Czesław Miłosz .

Honor

Since 1995, the "Polish National Poetry Competition Jacek Bierezin" ( Ogólnopolski Konkurs Poetycki im. Jacka Bierezina ) has been held annually, the prize of which is the publication of the winner's debut volume. The competition is organized by the Polish Writers' Union (Łódź branch).

In 2006 Jacek Bierezin was posthumously awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

Publications

  • Lekcja liryki (Poetry Lesson). Łódź 1972
  • Wam. Poezje (you). Instytut Literacki, Paris 1974
  • W połowie życia (In the middle of life). Warsaw 1980
  • Z pustyni iz puszczy. Felietony sprzed odnowy (From desert and wilderness. Features before the renewal). Warsaw 1981
  • Tyle rzeczy . Paris 1990
  • Linia życia (lifeline). Krakow 1999 (posthumous)

Web links

Commons : Jacek Bierezin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Panorama of Polish Literature of the 20th Century , Part: 4., Portraits , ed. by Karl Dedecius and Manfred Mack, Zurich 2000, pp. 49–52, ISBN 3-250-50004-6
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Encyklopedia Solidarności, Jacek Bierezin , accessed on March 9, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Paweł Kozioł on Culture.pl, Jacek Bierezin , November 2010 , accessed on March 9, 2019
  4. ↑ a b recogito.eu, Jacek Bierezin (13 III 1947 - 26 V 1993) , accessed on March 9, 2019
  5. ↑ a b niepoprawni.pl, Jacek Bierezin czyli ... stworzony do bólu , July 20, 2009 , accessed on March 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza, Jacek Bierezin nie żyje , May 28, 1993
  7. ↑ Prize winners see Polish Wikipedia ( gólnopolski Konkurs Poetycki im. Jacka Bierezina ).
personal data
SURNAME Bierezin, Jacek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet and opponent
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1993
Place of death Paris