Jerzy Żuławski

Jerzy Żuławski (* July 14, 1874 in Lipowiec; † 9 August 1915 Dębica ), was a Polish writer, poet and playwright. Prior to his studies at the ETH Zurich, he attended secondary schools in Bochnia and Krakow. In 1898, he earned a doctorate in philosophy in Bern. Back in Poland, he worked as a school teacher in Jasło and Krakow, but later devoted himself entirely to his literary career choice. After the outbreak of the First World War he joined the launched of Józef Piłsudski Polish Legions and died a year later in a military hospital of typhoid fever.

Żuławskis most famous works are the play Eros i Psyche ( Eros and Psyche German Scenic representations in seven chapters, 1904. ) And his so-called "moon trilogy": globie In this sci-fi trilogy consisting of the novels Na srebrnym. Rękopis z księżyca ( German On the silver globe. A handwriting of the Moon, 1903), Zwycieżca ( German The winner, 1910) and Stara ziemia ( German The old Earth, 1911) describes Żuławski the founding and subsequent history of a human colony on the side of the moon and the clash with a resident there for millennia extraterrestrial civilization. Particularly notable is the critical illumination about the in the course of three volumes progressive myths about the first settlers and other mechanisms of human society and religion.

Polish director Andrzej Żuławski, grandson of the author, filmed the novel Na srebrnym globie 1976 under the same title, but failed, inter alia, to the conditions imposed by the censorship.