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Wisława Szymborska
To borrow from the lady herself, “they say the first sentence…is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.... -
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
Sunday 8th of January sees the 20th edition of The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. No, Charlie ... -
Stanisław Poniatowski
The wonderfully named Stanisław II August Poniatowski (born Count Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski) was the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-95).... -
Błędowska Desert
Here’s sand in your eye: smack between Kraków and Katowice (in fact 40km from each city), lies Pustynia Błędowska - a bonafide, genuine, centuries-old desert.... -
Smoking
After holding out to be one of the few remaining EU countries with no prohibitions on smoking, a new law put into effect on November 15th, 2010 finally limited smoking in public places.... -
Teodor Talowski
Disregarding the famous cathedrals, castle, medieval market square and university, one could still spend years of their life wide-eyed wandering the side streets of Kraków, tripping on cobbles, taking in every architectural detail, every subtle flourish on every facade.... -
Marek Grechuta
With his catchy spoken lyrics, roaring drink habit and rumoured schizophrenia, Marek Grechuta was the embodiment of tortured genius, his place in Polish music history cast in stone – think of this guy as the Polish Bob Dylan.... -
Grzane piwo/wino
There’s a number of ways to survive winter in Poland, and we’ve tried them all, from dressing up like Eskimos to sitting at home in our pants.... -
Ryszard Kapuscinski
He didn’t win any wars, and his role in the downfall of communism was peripheral at the very best, yet when it comes to making lists of the greatest Poles of the 20th century, few come out on top of Ryszard Kapuściński.... -
Białowieża National Park
Białowieża - thought of as the crown jewel of Poland’s national parks - is Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, and dominated by massive oak trees dating several centuries.... -
Marek Kamiński
Born in Gdańsk on March 24, 1964, Marek Kamiński ranks as Poland’s greatest living explorer, and in 1995 became the first person in the world to reach both Poles unaided in the same year.... -
Edward Gierek
Born in Zagórze, an outlying district of Sosnowiec, Edward Gierek (1913 – 2001) is best remembered as the man who took Poland to the brink of bankruptcy with his half-mad economic policies.... -
The Pianist
Based on the biographical novel by Wladsylaw Szpilman, the Oscar-winning film charts Szpilman’s battle for survival in the Warsaw ghetto.... -
The Drowning of Marzanna
Despite the strong Catholic character of modern Poland, some pagan traditions have endured. One of the most blithely bizarre and eyebrow-raising is the spring equinox celebration known as the Drowning of Marzanna (Topienie Marzanny)....
Leon Schiller
Born in Kraków in 1887 he graduated from the cities Jagiellonian Univeristy with degrees in philosophy and Polish Literature under his belt, before pursuing further academic titles at the Sorbonne in Paris. Having cut his teeth as a singer in Kraków‘s notoriously rowdy Green Balloon Cabaret he was to go on to become one of the most famous film and theatre directors of pre-WWII Poland. In a career that saw him tour widely across the country with a variety of theatre groups he is particularly famous for his staging of Adam Mickiewicz‘s masterpiece Dziady in Warsaw‘s Teatr Polski. Credited with directing over 29 dramas and a dozen or so vaudeville productions his life predictably went wrong with the German invasion of 1939. In revenge for the assassination of the Polish actor and Gestapo agent Igo Sym Schiller was apprehended by the Nazis and held in Warsaw‘s infamous Pawiak Prison - of the 100,000 estimated Poles who passed through the prisons gates only 3,000 are understood who have survived the war. Schiller was one of those, thanks in no small part to his sister, who paid a hefty ransom fee to ensure his release. Following WWII he took presidency of Łódź‘s National Drama School, before finally passing away in 1954.
"No work" of ANY Polish Musician Compares to Leon Schiller's "PASTORALKA."