Tadeusz Breza

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Tadeusz Breza, 1970

Tadeusz Breza (born December 31, 1905 in Siekierzyńce , † May 19, 1970 in Warsaw ) was a Polish writer .

life and work

After graduating from high school in Poznan in 1924 , Breza first studied law and philosophy in Warsaw and London and completed this with a thesis on David Hume , but also completed the novitiate of the Benedictines in Belgium for a year and a half. Breza was then from 1929 to 1932 secretary and attaché in London, from 1933 to 1937 he worked for the Warsaw newspaper Kurier Poranny . From 1955 to 1959 he was cultural attaché in Rome, from 1961 to 1965 he worked as cultural attaché in Paris. Breza was the brother of the architect Achilles Breza .

Breza made his debut in 1936 with the novel Adam Grywałd , after the Second World War he created the novel cycle The Walls of Jericho (1946). He also wrote The Banquet of Balthasar (1952, German 1955) and the essay The Iron Gate (1959, German 1962). He processed his experiences with the Curia in the novel Audience in Rome (1960, German 1962).

literature

  • Klaus Lüderssen: Epilogue to an audience in Rome by Tadeusz Breza. In: Ders .: Productive Reflections III. In: Contemporary legal history . Department 6, Vol. 43. Berlin / Boston 2014, pp. 107–114.
  • Georg Sterzenbach: Twisted Theater. Pictures of justice with Franz Kafka and Tadeusz Breza. With a look at Thomas Bernhard. In: Hermann Weber (ed.): Law and lawyers in the mirror of literature and art. Law and Legal History Vol. 19. Berlin 2014, pp. 43–60.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dąbrowski, Mieczysław: Tadeusz Breza. Warsaw 1982, p. 5
  2. ↑ a b c d Cf. Milosz, Czeslaw: The History of Polish Literature. Berkeley et al. 1983, p. 502
  3. ^ Dąbrowski, Mieczysław: Tadeusz Breza. Warsaw 1982, p. 5 and p. 212
  4. ↑ a b c cf. Lüderssen, Klaus: epilogue to “Audience in Rome” by Tadeusz Breza. In: Ders .: Productive Reflections III. In: Contemporary legal history. Department 6, Vol. 43. Berlin / Boston 2014, p. 107
  5. ↑ Newly published: Tadeusz Breza: "The bronze gate" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1963, pp. 77 ( online - July 17, 1963 , but gives the period 1955 to 1958).
  6. ^ Dąbrowski, Mieczysław: Tadeusz Breza. Warsaw 1982, p. 214. Calls the period 1955 to 1959.
  7. ↑ See: Sterzenbach, Georg: Twisted Theater. Pictures of justice with Franz Kafka and Tadeusz Breza. With a look at Thomas Bernhard. In: Weber, Hermann (ed.): Law and lawyers in the mirror of literature and art. Law and Legal History Vol. 19. Berlin 2014, p. 46. Sterzenbach mentions a review by Bruno Schulz , but mentions 1930 as the year of publication.
personal data
SURNAME Breza, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Siekierzyńce
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1970
Place of death Warsaw