Jakub Wojciechowski

Jakub Wojciechowski

Jakub Wojciechowski (born July 3, 1884 in Nówiec, † June 17, 1958 in Barcin ) was a Polish worker, self-taught and writer of memoirs.

From 1891 he received school lessons in German, at the age of 11 he began his first job at a forestry, then digging trenches in Gostyń , from 1899 at the brickworks in Tasdorf , from 1903 he was on a hike through Germany with one Karussell, 1905 miner in Dortmund , 1906 to 1908 for military service in Magdeburg, then with the Magdeburg tram as a conductor, then guide. In 1909 he married Marianne Kozioł (1880–1958). After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was called to the German army, after being wounded on the western front he spent six months in the hospital, after which he was a miner in Gelsenkirchen and again a tram driver in Magdeburg . After the end of the war he settled in Barcin in 1924 .

He received first prize in the competition for workers' memorials organized by the Polish Sociological Institute. In the “Worker's Own Résumé ” (Życiorys własny robotnika) Wojciechowski showed his special talent for telling stories about the simple life in Germany in an exciting and unabashed way, sometimes naively. He wrote without hesitation about the atrocities of war and his love affairs. The memoirs became an event in Polish literature, and the writer and critic Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński dedicated many feature sections to him and helped him to publish the text in 1930. Wojciechowski wrote “Once and now” (Raz kiedyś a obecnie) in 1933. His last texts ( continuation of my resume at home , Ciąg dalszy mego życiorysu już w kraju) were published posthumously in 1972.

literature

• Jakub Wojciechowski: Życiorys własny robotnika , Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznan 1971, ISBN 83-205-3624-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Jakub Wojciechowski in the bibliographic database WorldCat