Jonasz Kofta
Jonasz Kofta (born November 28, 1942 in Mizotsch , Volhynia , today Ukraine , † April 19, 1988 in Warsaw ) was a Polish songwriter and poet .
The kofta family came after the Second World War, after Warsaw , and later lived in Wroclaw and Poznan . In 1961 Kofta graduated from high school in Poznan at the Kunstliceum and then began to study painting in Warsaw. During his studies he began to write poetry and cabaret numbers. Together with Adam Kreczmar and Jan Pietrzak , he opened the student cabaret club Hybrydy in Warsaw in 1962 . In 1964 he became the literary director of the cabaret.
From 1966 he published poems, satires and lyrics in newspapers. From 1968 to 1980 he worked again with Kreczmar and Pietrzak in one of the most popular Polish cabarets Pod Egidą . Here he established the reputation of one of the most poetic and politically most important songwriters in Poland. He developed cancer in the 1980s . On April 19, 1988, he fatally suffocated while eating.
Web links
- https://ksiazki.wp.pl/jonasz-kofta-umieral-na-oczach-bliskich-przyjaciele-mysleli-ze-zartuje-6450613843211905a (pl)
- https://poezja.org/wz/Kofta_Jonasz/ (pl)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kofta, Jonasz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitzoch |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1988 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |