Jerzy Żuławski

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Jerzy Żuławski
On silver fields , Ger. EA Vlg.Georg Müller, Munich 1914

Jerzy Żuławski (born July 14, 1874 in Lipowiec , † August 9, 1915 in Dębica ) was a Polish writer , poet and playwright .

Life

Before studying at ETH Zurich , he attended secondary schools in Bochnia and Krakow . In 1898 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in Bern . Back in Poland, he worked as a high school teacher in Jasło and Kraków, but later devoted himself entirely to his dream job as a literary figure. After the outbreak of World War II, he joined the of Józef Pilsudski launched Polish Legions and died a year later in a military hospital in typhoid fever.

Żuławski's best-known works are the play Eros i Psyche ( German  Eros and Psyche. Scenes in seven chapters , 1904) and his so-called “moon trilogy”: In this three-part science fiction series, consisting of the novels Na srebrnym globie. Rękopis z Księżyca ( German  on the silver globe. A manuscript from the moon , 1903), Zwycieżca ( German  Der Sieger , 1910) and Stara ziemia ( German  The old earth , 1911), Żuławski describes the establishment and further history of a human colony on the Back of the moon and the collision with an extraterrestrial civilization that has resided there for thousands of years. Particularly noteworthy is the critical illumination of the myths about the first settlers and other mechanisms of human society and religion that progressed in the course of the three volumes.

Żuławski himself created an opera libretto of the same name based on his piece Eros i Psyche, Eros and Psyche , which was set to music by Ludomir Różycki . The premiere took place on March 10, 1917 in the City Theater of Breslau in German.

The Polish director Andrzej Żuławski , the author's great-nephew, filmed the novel Na srebrnym globie in 1976 under the same title; However, only four-fifths of the project was completed, as the then Polish Minister of Culture had to stop the shooting and burn all the props and parts of the film material.

bibliography

Moon trilogy (novel trilogy)
  • Na srebrnym globie (1902)
    • German: On silver fields. Translated by Kasimir Lodygowski. Georg Müller, 1914. Also as: On the silver moon. Translated by Edda Werfel. Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 88), 1983, ISBN 3-518-37365-X . Also as: On the silver globe. Translated by Roswitha Buschmann. The New Berlin, 1984.
  • Zwycięzca (1909)
    • German: The winner. Translated by Edda Werfel. Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 101), 1983, ISBN 3-518-37416-8 .
  • Stara Ziemia (1911)
    • German: The old earth. Translated by Edda Werfel. Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 114), 1983, ISBN 3-518-37468-0 .
Laus feminae (novels)
  • Powrót (1913)
  • Professor Butrym (1914)
Collections
  • Well strunach duszy. Poezje: Garść pierwsza [сборник стихов] (1895)
  • Intermezzo (1897)
  • Stance o pieśni [сборник стихов] (1897)
  • Poezje II [сборник стихов] (1900)
  • Opowiadania prozą [сборник рассказов] (1902)
  • Prolengomena: Uwagi i szkice [сборник эссе] (1902)
  • Z domu niewoli [сборник стихов] (1902)
  • Pokłosie: Poezje 1894-1904 [сборник стихов] (1904)
  • Kuszenie szatana [сборник рассказов] (1910)
  • Bajka o człowieku szczęśliwym: Nowe opowiadani [сборник рассказов] (1910)
  • Szkice literackie: Książki-myśli-ludzie [сборник эссе] (1913)
  • Przed zwierciadłem prawdy: Szkice filozoficzne [сборник эссе] (1914)
  • Miasta umarłe [сборник эссе] (1918)
Poems
  • Stance o pieśni (1897)
  • Do moich synów (1914)
Plays
  • Dictator (1903)
  • Wianek mirtowy: Dramat w czterech aktach (1903)
  • Eros i Psyche: Powieść sceniczna w siedmiu rozdziałach (1904)
  • Ijola: Dramat w 4 aktach z czasów średniowiecza (1905)
  • La bestia: Donna Aluica: Dramat w 5 aktach osnuty na tle dziejów weneckich w XIV wieku (1906)
  • Koniec Mesjasza (1906)
  • Gra: Tryptyk sceniczny (1906)
  • Za cenę łez: Komedja omyłek w 3 aktach (1909)
  • Gród Słońca: Baśń dramatyczna w trzech aktach (1911)
Non-fiction
  • Benedykt Spinoza: Człowiek i dzieło (1902)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jerzy Żuławski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerzy Żuławski, Auf silbernen Gefilden (also: Auf dem Silbermond ), German by Kasimir Lodygowski; Georg Müller, Munich 1914
  2. ^ Jerzy Żuławski, On the silver globe. A handwriting from the moon , in German by Roswitha Buschmann; Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin (East) 1984
  3. ↑ Jerzy Żuławski, Der Sieger , German by Edda Werfel; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1983f, ISBN 978-3-518-37416-0
  4. ↑ Jerzy Żuławski, The old earth , German by Edda Werfel; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1983f, ISBN 978-3-518-37468-9
  5. ↑ Karol Bula: Eros and Psyche. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 5: Works. Piccinni - Spontini. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02415-7 , pp. 468-469.
personal data
SURNAME Żuławski, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer, poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipowiec
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1915
Place of death Dębica