Leopold Unger
Leopold Unger (alias: Paul Mathil ; Brukselczyk ) (born August 12, 1922 in Lemberg ; † December 20, 2011 in Brussels ) was a Polish journalist and until his death the oldest professionally active journalist in Poland. He lived in Brussels since 1969.
Born in 1922 in Lemberg, Poland, to a Jewish family, at the age of 17 he fled to Romania on September 17, 1939 , where he survived the Second World War .
In 1948 he became a correspondent for the Polish Press Agency PAP in Bucharest . After returning to Warsaw , he became secretary of the editorial staff of the daily newspaper “ Życie Warszawy ”. He was also a foreign correspondent in Cuba .
After the March riots in Poland in 1968 , Unger was forced to leave the country in 1969 and found refuge in Belgium. He became a permanent employee of " Le Soir " under the code name Paul Mathil . He also wrote for the “ International Herald Tribune ” as well as for Radio Free Europe and the Parisian “Kultura” .
After the fall of 1989 he became a permanent employee of the newly founded Warsaw daily newspaper " Gazeta Wyborcza ". Despite his old age, Unger provided the editorial team with articles that were often polemical to the end.
On his 85th birthday in 2008 the book was published Udalo mi się mieć ciekawe życie (There I managed an interesting life), with texts by Władysław Bartoszewski , Bronislaw Geremek , Ryszard Kapuscinski , Leszek Kolakowski , Bohdan Osadczuk , Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Andrzej Wajda , Lech Wałęsa and Józef Życiński .
On June 30, 2009 Unger was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin.
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold Unger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gazeta Wyborcza
Individual evidence
- ^ Zmarł Leopold Unger (1922 - 2011) . Gazeta Wyborcza . December 21, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mathil, Paul; Brukselczyk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish journalist and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2011 |
| Place of death | Brussels |