Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński

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Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński 1947

Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (born January 23, 1905 in Warsaw , † December 6, 1953 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet.

He began with satirical poems, which he published in the magazine "Quadriga" of the Polish group of the same name. After a job as a censorship officer, he worked from 1931 to 1933 as a cultural attaché at the Polish embassy in Berlin . There he wrote the poem Inge Bartsch, aktorka, po przewrocie zaginiona wśród tajemniczych okoliczności ( Inge Bartsch , actress, lost under mysterious circumstances after the overthrow) in memory of the missing actress.

Since 1934 he worked as a freelance author. He wrote poems, radio plays, songs, but also advertising slogans. He also wrote for the national Catholic magazine "Prosto z mostu".

In 1939 he was called up for military service, was taken prisoner in Germany and lived in various camps, including in Stalag IV B near Mühlberg / Elbe . After the liberation by the Americans, he initially stayed in Paris, but returned to Poland in 1946. In Krakow he worked for the Przekrój magazine , a popular but rather harmless entertainment paper. There the satirical reading theater The Green Goose was created . This theater was not intended to be realized on a stage. It was a collection of bizarre "pseudo-pieces" in which recurring protagonists portrayed the stupidities of life in Poland at that time. In this form he succeeded in realizing real social criticism in communist Poland. In Przekrój his "Letters to the violets" appeared.

Gałczyński preferred to spend his summer vacation in the old forester's house Pranie on the Lower Lake in Masuria. His museum was built there in 1980 (coordinates 53 ° 36 ′ 29.02 ″  N , 21 ° 30 ′ 3.62 ″  E ).

The most famous of Gałczyński's poems is “Zaczarowana dorożka” (The Enchanted Cab and Coach) from 1946.

In the last years of his life, Gałczyński mainly devoted himself to larger poetry:

  • Wielkanoc Jana Sebastiana Bacha (Johann Sebastian Bach's Easter Festival) (1950)
  • Niobe (1951)
  • Wit Stwosz ( Veit Stoss ) (1952)
  • Kronika Olsztyńska (Allenstein Chronicle) (1952)

Gałczyński also has 1952 Shakespeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream " in Dutch.

Web links

Wikiquote: Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński  - Quotes
Commons : Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works

  • The green goose. The smallest theater in the world. Illustrated by Sławomir Mrożek . Translated from the Polish by Karl Dedecius (Library Suhrkamp 222). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1969, 2nd edition 1988. ISBN 3518012223 ; other edition and translation: The green goose. Pseudo-pieces. Ed., With a note and an afterthought. provided by Jutta Janke. Translated by Jolanta & Herwig Braetz. Spectrum series, 175th Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1983
  • Excerpt: Poetry is getting more expensive. In: Sisyphus Two. An almanac on books and the art of living (The Second Year 1992). Faber & Faber, Berlin 1992, p. 29f. (attached short biography)
  • Central heating. In: Dramas. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1966. ISBN 8526565958

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ other authors: Jerzy Szaniawski: 2 theaters; Leon Kruczkowski : death of the governor; Jerzy Broszkiewicz : Scandal in Hellberg; Jerzy Jurandot: Nine Righteous; Slawomir Mroszek: Karl; Zbigniew Herbert : Other rooms; Stanislaw Grochowiak: Partita for a wooden instrument
personal data
SURNAME Gałczyński, Konstanty Ildefons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1953
Place of death Warsaw