Gustaw Morcinek

Gustav Morcinek (actually Augustyn Morcinek; born August 25, 1891 in Karwin, then Austria - Hungary, † December 20, 1963 in Kraków ) was a Polish writer, journalist and politician.

Life

Morcinek was born in a poor mining family in the Moravian- Silesian industrial area, his father died three years later in a mining accident in the bay Johanna.

Morcinek also began to work underground at age 16. When he was 19 years old, the miners gathered money so that he could attend the seminar teacher for the elementary school in Bielsko. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was drafted into the Austro- Hungarian army. As a soldier, he took part in October 1918 at the storming of the garrison in Cieszyn and thus the pro-Polish revolution in Cieszyn Silesia. Since the early 1920s Morcinek worked as a teacher in Skoczów where today a museum recalls him. In parallel, he worked as an editor with at Teschen magazine Zaranie Śląskie ( Silesian Dawn) and published articles in the newspaper Dziennik Cieszyński. Between 1936 and 1939 he lived abroad, among others, in France, Italy, Austria, Denmark and Germany. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he returned to his home and was immediately arrested after the German invasion, because he was accused of anti-German activities in his articles and literary works - among other things he had called the dog a hero "Bismarck". The following five years spent Morcinek in the Nazi concentration camps Skrochovice, Sachsenhausen and Dachau. After the liberation he returned to Upper Silesia and was committed to the new communist system that could be granted him a number of privileges.

From 1952 to 1957 he acted as delegates of the constituency Sejm in Katowice. In this role he was - who was regarded as a typical representative of the Polish Upper Silesia - forced by the highest authorities in 1953, to make an official request to rename the city of Katowice in Stalinogród. Morcinek died in 1963 and was buried in Cieszyn. His life was made ​​into a film of the Upper Silesian director and folklorist Antoni Halor under the title Siedem zegarków Gustawa ( Gustaws seven clocks) in the 1980s.

Work

Morcinek is considered the most important representatives of Polish-speaking Upper Silesian literature in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote a series of novels in which he, inter alia, to dealt with the lives of the miners and of ordinary people. In addition to the authentic presentation, he was praised for his humor. Especially in the years before 1939, the literary writer Zofia Kossak was the pupil and the audience extremely successful. He also wrote children 's books and fairy tales, he also was known as obsessive letter writer. His works have been translated into several languages ​​and received several state awards.

Publications

  • Byli dwaj bracia (German: There were two brothers in 1928 )
  • Serce za tama (1929 )
  • Wyrąbany chodnik ( 1931-32 )
  • Narodziny serca (German: Born Herzen1932 )
  • Lýsek z pokładu Idy (1933 )
  • Slask (1933, monograph )
  • Chleb na kamieniu ( Eng.: The bread at the fireplace ), ( collection of short stories )
  • Inżynier Szeruda (1937 )
  • Listy spod morwy (1945, bearing memories )
  • Ludzie są Dobrzy (German: people are good 1946)
  • Dziewczyna z Champs -Elysées (storage memory ) ( dt: . The girl from the Champs- Élysées stories from Dachau and Auschwitz, East Berlin 1965)
  • Listy z mojego Rzymu (storage memory )
  • Wyorane kamienie (1946 )
  • Uśmiech na drodze (1948 )
  • Poklad Joanny ( 1950) ( German: Bay Johanna, Weimar 1953)
  • Ondraszek ( 1953 historical novel ) (English: Raiders, avengers and rebel, Weimar 1955)
  • Jak górnik Bulandra diabła oszukał (1958, Silesian fairy tale )
  • Gwiazdy w studni powieść dla dzieci
  • Zabłąkane ptaki
  • Urodzaj ludzi (German: Born people )
  • Czarna Julka ( Eng.: The black Julka, East Berlin 1965)
  • Przedziwne śląskie powiarki (1961, Silesian fairy tale )
  • Górniczy zakon (1964 )
  • Ziemia Cieszyńska (Monographie)
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