Rafał Wojaczek

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Zbigniew Kresowaty: Portrait of Rafał Wojaczek
Memorial plaque for Wojaczek in Wroclaw

Rafał Wojaczek (born December 6, 1945 in Mikołów , † May 11, 1971 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish poet .

Life

Common grave of the brothers Rafał and Andrzej Wojaczek

Wojaczek was born into a family that is well known and valued in the city. His father was a high school teacher, his mother worked in a publishing house. He attended several high schools in Mikołów, Katowice - Ligota and Kędzierzyn-Koźle . After graduating from high school , he studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , but broke off his studies after a short time and moved to Wroclaw in 1964, where he tried several jobs, including working in municipal garbage disposal. During his time in Wroclaw he led an excessive life and was considered a unworldly egomaniacand suffered from self-destructive mania. This led to alcoholism and several suicide attempts . In 1971 he died after taking a drug cocktail.

job

Wojaczek belonged to the same generation of poets as Edward Stachura and Andrzej Bursa and is considered one of the “young savages” of Polish poetry of the 1960s. As a poet he made his debut in 1965 in the magazine "Poezja" (German poetry ). In 1969 his debut collection of poems "Sezon" (German season ) was published, which received very good reviews; In 1970 he published his second volume of poetry: "Inna bajka" (Eng. The other fairy tale ). After his death in 1971 other poetic works appeared. Wojaczek's poetry can be assigned to turpism , as it increasingly contains motifs of alienation and isolation as well as drastic depictions of death, mixed with vocabulary with a hint of eroticism, gloomy visions and sarcasm. Wojaczek was posthumously awarded the Andrzej Bursa Prize.

In 1999 the Polish director Lech Majewski made an experimental film about Wojaczek's life, which was shown in the International Forum of the Berlinale 2000.

Rafał Wojaczek's younger brother Andrzej (1947–2000) gained fame as an actor.

Works

  • Sezon ("Season", 1969)
  • Inna bajka ("The other fairy tale", 1970)

Posthumously:

  • Którego nie było ("RW - That Didn't Exist ", 1972)
  • Nie skończona krucjata ("The Crusade Unfinished ", 1972)
  • Utwory zebrane ("Collected Works", 1976)
  • Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poems", 1983)
  • List do nieznanego poety ("Letter to the Unknown Poet", 1985)
  • Wiersze ("Poems", 1996).

in German:

  • In tödlicher Not , Selected Poems, Rimbaud Verlag: Aachen, 2000

literature

  • Bogdan Czaykowski: The Poetry of Brutality: Andrzej Bursa and Rafal Wojaczek. In: Russian and Slavic Literature , ed. Richard Freeborn et al., Columbus: Slavica 1976, pp. 224-49.
  • Tymoteusz Karpowicz: Naked Poetry. In: The Polish Review 21 (1-2 / 1976). Pp. 59-71.
  • Reuel Wilson: Rafał Wojaczek: Genius of Despair. In: The Slavic and East European Journal 31 (2/1987), pp. 143-157.
  • Marta Kijowska : Rafał Wojaczek. In: Karl Dedecius (Ed.): Panorama of the Polish literature of the 20th century. Portraits. , Ammann, Zurich 2000, pp. 960-961.

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personal data
SURNAME Wojaczek, Rafał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikołów
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1971
Place of death Wroclaw