Shaniavsky, Jerzy

Born in with. Zegzinek near the river Narew in the landowner's family. Cultural traditions were maintained in the Shanyavsky house, often there were many writers, including Maria Konopnitskaya , Klemens Youth and others.

He graduated from the Warsaw gymnasium and went to Lausanne to study natural sciences at the Agricultural Institute. After some time, he returned to the parental estate, where he lived in solitude, avoiding contact with people.

Since 1912 he was engaged in drama and literary work.

During World War II, E. Shaniavsky moved to Warsaw and took part in the Resistance movement. In 1944 he was arrested, after his release he moved to Krakow, then to his native land.

Jerzy Shaniavsky died on March 16, 1970.

Jerzy явanyavsky made his debut in 1912 on the pages of the Warsaw Courier (Paul Kurjer Warszawski ). Five years later, his play Negro (Murzyn, 1917) was staged on the stage of the capital's Polish Theater . The performance was a success and brought the author popularity. Over the next years, Shaniavsky wrote a number of plays - “Paper Lover” (“Papierowy kochanek”, 1920), “Daredevil” (“Lekkoduch”, 1923), “Bird” (Ptak, 1923), and in 1924 he wrote his only novel - “Love and important things” (“Miłość i rzeczy poważne”). The author’s plays were staged on the stages of various Polish theaters, including the theater-laboratory Reduta by J. Osterwa .

In the 1930s the playwright's work was very popular. He was awarded a number of literary prizes, thanks to which in 1933 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Literature. In addition to theatrical scenes, his works were staged as radio shows and served as movie scripts.

While living in Krakow, in 1946 he wrote the play “Two Theaters” (“Dwa teatry”), as well as a series of stories about Professor Tutka. However, after Shaniavsky refused to write in line with socialist realism , which was officially recognized as the main artistic direction, In 1949 he was attacked by the Communist authorities of the NDP, as a result of which until 1955 the writer's works were not published.

In 1950, Jerzy Shaniavsky returned to his parent's estate and began to restore it. At the beginning of the thaw, in 1955, the Union of Polish Writers organized a large-scale celebration of the anniversary of Shaniavsky. In the same year, the writer received the Commander Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland . However, the main works of Shanyavsky at that time were already written, and his new plays - Archers (Łuczniczki, 1959), Nine Years (Dziewięc lat, 1960) - although they had some success, they were much weaker than previous works playwright.

In 1977, the writer's estate in Zegrzynek burned down, and the writer's archive was lost in a fire, which, according to the memoirs of his contemporaries, contained 77 dramaturgic works, of which only about thirty were published.

• Murzyn ( 1917 )
• Papierowy kochanek ( 1920 )
• Ewa ( 1921 )
• Lekkoduch ( 1923 )
• Ptak (1923)
• Żeglarz ( 1925 )

Sailor. - M.: VAAP, 1975.

• Adwokat i róże ( 1929 )
• Fortepian ( 1932 )
• Most ( 1933 )
• Dwa teatry ( 1946 )

Two theaters // Modern Polish plays. - M., 1965.

• Kowal, pieniądze i gwiazdy ( 1948 )

Blacksmith, money and stars. - M.: VAAP, 1976.

• Chłopiec latający ( 1949 )
• Łuczniczka ( 1959 )
• Dziewięć lat ( 1960 )

• Zegarek ( 1935 )
• W lesie ( 1937 )
• Służbista ( 1938 )
• Srebrne lichtarze (1938)
• Dziewczyna z lasu ( 1939 )

• Club Professor Tutka (comedy series 1966 - 1968 )

• Officer Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland (1955),
• Merit Cross (Poland)
• State Prize of Poland (1930),
• Warsaw Literary Prize (1958),
• Prize of the Warsaw Voivodship People's Council (1959),
• Award to them. Wlodzimierz Petrzak (1962).

• Jerzy Szaniawski (Polish)