Paweł Lisicki

Paweł Lisicki, 2010

Paweł Andrzej Lisicki (born September 20, 1966 in Warsaw ) is a Polish journalist and essayist . He is considered one of the masterminds of the Polish national conservatives.

biography

After graduating from high school in Warsaw, Lisicki studied law at the University of Warsaw . In 1988 he joined the anti-communist Independent Student Association NZS.

From 1991 to 1993 he was editor of the daily newspaper " Życie Warszawy ", from 1993 to 2005 of " Rzeczpospolita ". In the dispute over the publication of "Wildstein's List", a directory with real names of informants of the dissolved secret service SB , which his editorial colleague Bronisław Wildstein had distributed among journalists, he defended it. When Wildstein was fired, Lisicki also left the editorial team of "Rzeczpospolita" out of solidarity with him.

But just one year later, in 2006, he returned, now as editor-in-chief. The national conservative party Law and Justice (PiS) led by Jarosław Kaczyński pushed him through to this post . At that time, the Polish state held 49 percent of the publisher's shares. Under Lisicki, the course of the "Rzeczpospolita" changed, which had previously represented liberal-conservative positions: It supported the ruling PiS. Numerous long-time editors left the newspaper.

Under Lisicki's aegis, the newspaper's commentators and reporters emphasized the German-Polish differences, from the controversial Baltic Sea pipeline to historical controversies. The Center against Evictions project was presented as a threat to the Polish state. Editors were instructed to search the Internet daily for negative news about Germany.

Lisicki held this post until 2011. After his replacement, he headed the weekly magazine “Uważam Rze”, which appeared in the same publishing house as “Rzeczpospolita”. After the release from the publisher's new owners, he founded the national-conservative weekly magazine “Do Rzeczy” in 2013, which sympathizes with the PiS government elected in 2015.

Journalistic positions

Lisicki claims to have been shaped by German philosophers. He himself has translated several works by German theologians into Polish, including those by Martin Buber and Karl Adam . But he views West German society critically. According to his own admission, he is particularly bothered by the “moral arrogance” of many Germans towards their Eastern European neighbors.

In his own words, as a publicist he would like to contribute to the strengthening of patriotism and “ Polishism ” ( polskość ). He sees Poland as inseparable from Catholicism .

While as editor-in-chief of "Rzeczpospolita" he had relied on a tough confrontation with the Germans, especially in historical debates, in 2017 he criticized demands from the ranks of the ruling party PiS for reparations from the Federal Republic for the destruction caused by the German occupiers in World War II desire.

He sharply criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy. He sees the Christian culture of Western and Central Europe endangered by the massive influx of Muslim immigrants. According to him, Poland must by no means bow to the “dictates of Brussels” and accept Muslim migrants. In the science fiction novel Epoka Antychrysta (The Epoch of the Antichrist), published in 2018, he painted a picture of Europe that is in a serious political, social and economic crisis because of the high number of Muslim immigrants.

Lisicki's particular concern is the memory of the Polish victims in World War II. He repeatedly expressed the fear that the fate of the Catholic Poles murdered by the occupiers would be ignored in historiography, since it was dominated by the Holocaust . In the controversial volume of essays “Blood on our hands?” (2016) he takes the view that the commemoration of the fate of the murdered Jews has long since assumed the dimensions of a “Holocaust religion”. According to him, it is overlooked, especially in American and German historiography, that Jews played a significant role in the construction of the repressive Soviet system: "They bear a large part of the responsibility for the victory of the revolution as well as for the unprecedented crimes of the regime."

Lisicki rejects the thesis that many Catholic Poles have become helpers of the Germans in the extermination of the Jews. He is one of the sharpest critics of the Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross , who described crimes against Jews by Catholic Poles in several books about occupied Poland and the years immediately after World War II.

Books

• The head of Holofernes . Biblioteka Fronda , Warsaw 2000, ISBN 83-912541-6-X .
• Kto zabił Jezusa? [ Who killed Jesus? ] Wydawnictwo M, Warsaw 2013, ISBN 978-83-7595-509-5 .
• Tajemnica Marii Magdaleny. [ The Secret of Mary Magdalene ] Wydawnictwo M, Warsaw 2014, ISBN 978-83-7595-662-7 .
• Czy Jezus jest Bogiem? [ Is Jesus God? ] Wydawnictwo M, Warsaw 2014, ISBN 978-83-7595-846-1 .
• Dżihad i samozagłada Zachodu. [ The Jihad and the self-destruction of the West ] Fabryka Slow, Lublin 2015, ISBN 978-83-7964-078-2 .
• Krew na naszych rękach? [ Blood on our hands? ] Fabryka słów, Lublin 2016, ISBN 978-83-7964-174-1 .
• Luter. Ciemna strona rewolucji. [ Luther . The dark side of the revolution ] Fronda, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-8079-169-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The other is evil , tagesanzeiger.ch , January 16, 2016.
2. ↑ Oh, the Memel flows here spiegel.de , January 8, 2016.
3. ↑ Informacja prasowa 35 lecie NZS nzs.org.pl , 23 September 2015.
4. ↑ Information on the career path according to Paweł Lisicki dorzeczy.pl
5. ↑ attacks against journalists orf.at .
6. ↑ Rząd chce likwidacji "Rzeczpospolitej" polskieradio.pl , December 1, 2010.
7. ↑ Rzeczpospolita mediadb.eu , May 4, 2012.
8. ↑ Thomas Urban , It's very hitlert. The Polish media's image of Germany. In: Osteuropa , 1/2007, pp. 60–63.
9. ↑ Noble is the German, helpful and - haughty welt.de , October 4, 2010.
10. ↑ Navid Kermani : Along the trenches: A journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan. Munich 2018, p. 118.
11. ↑ Czystka w "Uważam Rze". Odchodzą Paweł Lisicki, Wildstein i Gabryel wiadomosci.onet.pl, November 28, 2012.
12. ^ Poland - How history is being reinterpreted deutschlandfunk.de , November 21, 2016.
13. ↑ Noble is the German, helpful and - haughty welt.de , October 4, 2010.
14. ↑ Zaćmienie Boga (1994)
15. ↑ Natura katolicyzmu (1999)
16. ↑ Noble is the German, helpful and - haughty welt.de , October 4, 2010.
17. ↑ Cezary Michalski, Potęga mitu i kłamstwa. Newsweek Extra , 2.2017, pp. 84-89.
18. ^ Poland - How history is being reinterpreted deutschlandfunk.de , November 21, 2016.
19. ↑ Poland is examining German reparations debt , morgenpost.de , 22 August 2017.
20. ↑ Comment: The Poles made the right decision in the migration crisis Radio Poland , 23 August 2017.
21. ↑ Lisicki: Epoka antychrysta - czyli samozagłada Europy odchodzącej od Kościoła katolickiego , Radio WNet , September 28, 2018.
22. ^ Poland - How history is being reinterpreted deutschlandfunk.de , November 21, 2016.
23. ^ Paweł Lisicki: Krew na naszych rękach? Lublin 2016, p. 30.
24. ^ Poland - How history is being reinterpreted deutschlandfunk.de , November 21, 2016.