Crooked Wheel Club
The Crooked Wheel Club (Polish Club Krzywego Koła ) was a free-thinking discussion club, active in Warsaw from 1955 to 1962.
It was created in the thaw of “Polish October” in the apartment of the couple Juliusz and Ewa Garztecki on Krummes-Rad-Gasse (Polish: Ulica Krzywego Koła ) in Warsaw's newly rebuilt old town . Later the club meetings took place every Thursday at 6 pm on the old market square, in the hall on the first floor above the “Desa” art gallery.
There was open discussion about art, culture, politics and philosophy. Only one subject remained taboo: the socialist order. The authorities viewed the club as a kind of safety valve on the seething cauldron, under the discreet control of the security agency .
Some club members were also employees of the weekly journal of the young intelligentsia " Po prostu " ( Eng . Simple!).
Many club members later achieved important posts in Polish culture and politics, and seniors are also highly regarded in the 21st century.
Participated in the discussions a. Part:
- Władysław Bartoszewski - historian
- Leszek Kołakowski - philosopher
- Jacek Kuroń - educator, scout activist
- Jan Józef Lipski - literary historian
- Stanisław Manturzewski - sociologist
- Adam Michnik - journalist
- Karol Modzelewski - historian
- Jan Olszewski - lawyer
- Maria Ossowska - sociologist
- Stanisław Ossowski - sociologist
- Antoni Słonimski - writer
- Jerzy Urban - journalist " Po prostu "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marek Rapacki: Jak powstawał club Krzywego Koła. Gazeta Wyborcza December 13, 2004
literature
- Witold Jedlicki: Klub Krzywego Koła , Instytut Literacki, Paris 1963.
- Marek Rapacki: Jak powstawał Klub Krzywego Koła. Gazeta Wyborcza December 13, 2004.
- Krystyna Kersten: Enklawa wolnej myśli. Tygodnik Powszechny