Krystyna Bochenek
Krystyna Maria Bochenek (* June 30, 1953 in Katowice, † April 10, 2010 near Smolensk, Russia) was a Polish journalist, politician and Senator.
Life
She studied philology at the University of Silesia. From 1976 she worked as a radio journalist at Polskie Radio in Katowice. For years, she also worked closely with the press and the television. Her husband was the Kardiochirurg Prof. Andrzej Bochenek med. She had two grown children.
In her work as a journalist to Krystyna Bochenek dealt with language and cultural health issues and was the initiator of Ogólnopolskie Dyktando (Poland -wide dictation), Poland's largest linguistics show. She has prepared nearly 1000 hours programs on health, the most famous of which is Magazyn medyczny ( Medical Magazine ). She was one of the authors of the television production Od A do Zdrowia (A to health). Bochenek supported charitable projects such as Wielka Orkiestra Christmas Charity, fundacja Rodzin Górniczych and the reconstruction of the Opera - Śląska and theater Slaski building.
For her journalistic and charitable work she has received several honors and awards, including Osobowości Radiowe (Radio - Personalities ), Bolesław Prus, the price of fundacja Promocji Zdrowia ( Health Foundation) and Polski Komitet Zwalczania Raka (Polish Committee for the fight against cancer ) and culture honors Woiwodschaftsmarschalls of the Silesian Voivodeship and the mayor of the city of Katowice.
On September 12, 2004, she was elected as a Senator of the constituency Katowice in the Polish Senate ( as a non-party, from the Unia Wolności - list).
On April 10, 2010 Bochenek belonged to a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński, who was to travel on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre to the memorial to Russia. In a plane crash of the delegation near the military airfield Smolensk - North they came together with other high-ranking representatives of Poland died.
Posthumously Bochenek was awarded on 16 April 2010 the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazda Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).
Works
- X jubileuszowe Dyktando
- Chirurdzy i detektywi
- Jak Krystyna Krystyna z