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Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, (2 October 1902, Radogoszcz, Piotrków Governorate – 18 June 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor. He wrote psychological, social, moral and historical novels, dramas, stories, essays and journals.

Jerzy Zawieyski
Born	Henryk Nowicki (1902-10-02)2 October 1902 Radogoszcz, Piotrków Governorate, Congress Poland
Died	18 June 1969(1969-06-18) (aged 66) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	author, playwright, political activist
Years active	1921 – 1968

As a secretary of the Towarzystwo Uniwersytetów Robotniczych, he did organizing work for the workers' educational and theatrical movement. Then he was an activist of the Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. During the German occupation of Poland, he was active in the underground cultural movement.

Biography

In 1921, Zawieyski made his debut with poems (Strzępy) under the pseudonym Konar-Nowicki. In 1926, he graduated from the School of Drama in Kraków. From 1926 to 1928, he was an actor at the Reduta Theatre and editor of the magazine Teatr Ludowy. From 1929 to 1931, he was staying in France, where he worked as an instructor of Polonia amateur drama groups. After returning to Poland, until 1939, he worked as the director of the Instytut Teatrów Ludowych (Institute for Folklore Theaters), actor and literary manager of the Ataneum Theatre. In his youth, Zawieyski had been an atheist and did not convert to Catholicism until the 1930s.[1]

After World War II, Zawieyski worked as a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lublin (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, KUL). He co-founded the Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej, whose president he was until 1957. He was a member of the editorial boards of Tygodnik Powszechny (From 1946 until 1952, and again from 1956) and Znak (1946–1951 and from 1957). In 1949, he was awarded by the Polish episcopate. In 1957–1969, he was a member of the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland. In 1957–1968, he was a member of the Polish Council of State.

Zawieyski was homosexual. In 1933 he met Stanisław Trębaczkiewicz. They fell in love and lived together until Zawieyski's death in 1969. They were buried next to each other in the Laski Cemetery near Warsaw.[2]

Notable works

References

Inline

General

• "Zawieyski Jerzy". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
• "Zawieyski Jerzy". WIEM Encyklopedia (in Polish). Archived from the original on 23 May 2006. Retrieved 10 December 2007.

Further reading

• Baliwszewski, Dariusz (2005). "Upadek z wysokości". Wprost 24 (in Polish). Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa "Wprost" (26/2005 (1178)). Archived from the original on 26 February 2008.
• Baranowicz, Jan; et al. (1958). Kredą na tablicy. Wspomnienia z lat szkolnych (in Polish). Warsaw: Czytelnik. OCLC 16969597.
• Brandys, Marian (1983). Z dwóch stron drzwi (in Polish). Warsaw: Oficyna WE (Wydawnictwo Enklawa). OCLC 69552002.
• Brudnicki, Jan Z. (1985). Jerzy Zawieyski (in Polish) (1st ed.). Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. ISBN 83-06-01205-4. OCLC 14106350.
• Kluźniak, Malina, ed. (2000). "Niesie mnie rzeka smutku..." Korespondencja między Jerzym Zawieyskim a Zofią Nałkowską 1943-1954 (in Polish). Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa. ISBN 83-7009-268-3. OCLC 45611238.
• Kulesza, Dariusz (1999). Tragedia ukrzyżowana. Dramaty chrześcijańskie Romana Brandstaettera i Jerzego Zawieyskiego (in Polish). Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. ISBN 83-87884-14-6. OCLC 42894667.
• Urbankowski, Bohdan, ed. (1995). Stwarzanie światów. Antologia współczesnego dramatu polskiego (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. ISBN 83-02-05614-6. OCLC 69352036.

На других языках

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- [en] Jerzy Zawieyski

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[ru] Ежи Завейский

Ежи Завейский (творческий псевдоним Хенрика Новицкого) (польск. Jerzy Zawieyski; 2 октября 1902, Радогощ (ныне Лодзь), Петроковская губерния, Царства Польского, Российской империи — 18 июня 1969, Варшава, ПНР) — польский писатель , драматург, сценарист, эссеист, политический и общественный деятель, актёр-любитель.

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