Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński listen / i ( born March 4, 1932 in Pinsk, Belarus today; † January 23, 2007 in Warsaw)? Was a Polish reporter, journalist and author. He is one of the most translated authors in Poland.
Life
Kapuściński was born on March 4, 1932 in what was then eastern Poland Pinsk. He grew up in a family of teachers. 1940 his mother fled with him before deportation to Siberia; allegedly was his father flee from a Soviet prisoner of war transport that will bring him would have to Katyn.
In 1945 his family moved to Warsaw. There he married in 1952 Alicja Mielczarek and started in the same year his studies in history at the University of Warsaw. In 1955 he took his first trip to Asia and was a reporter at the conference of Non-Aligned States on Java. In 1956 he finished his studies with a master's and started at the youth newspaper " Sztandar Mlodych " (Eng. banner of Youth) participate.
1956 to 1957 he traveled to China and reported from there. A year later he became a member of the Polish news agency PAP and traveled in 1958 on their behalf to Africa. After his return, he worked in the editorial of the magazine " Polityka ". In 1962 he was back for the PAP in Africa go. 1967, immediately after his stay in Africa, he traveled to the Soviet Union. In 1967 he took his trip to South America, where he spent six years working for the PAP as a foreign correspondent. Furthermore, he was a consultant of the Polish magazine " Kontynenty ". German -language articles written by him published in 1994 the cultural magazine Lettre International. In 2003 he held the opening speech for the award of the Lettre Ulysses Award entitled " Herodotus - Reporter of Antiquity".
In 1994 he was a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service eV in Berlin.
He was six honorary doctorates. In total, he received more than 40 awards and honors. Kapuściński was a member of the Polish Penclubs ( Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich ).
January 23, 2007 Kapuściński died in Banach Hospital in Warsaw at the following heart surgery.
Fierce controversy has already prior to publication ( 3 March 2010 ), the book Kapuscinski. Non-fiction of his biographers Artur Domosławski triggered, the leaves the veracity of numerous reports, and family history Kapuściński doubtful and reports of connections to the Polish secret police SB. Furthermore, Kapuściński is known, contrary to his statements neither Che Guevara still have met the Congolese rebels Patrice Lumumba. Rather, he extended the boundaries of reportage far from the field of literature. Could also claim that his father intended to bring by a Soviet prisoner of war transport, it would have to Katyn flee, to be pure invention. Domosławski has found that Kapuscinski's father had never fallen into Soviet captivity. In the 1995 published in Lettre International text history in the making, based on a conversation with the editor in chief Frank Berberich, he reflected on his reportage art and developed comprehensive thoughts about his writing.