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In the first days of August 1914, as the three entities of partitioned Poland—Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary were entering the First World War, Jerzy Żuławski made the only decision he felt reflected his principles and joined Piłsudski's Legions to fight for the cause of regaining Polish independence.
- Jerzy Żuławski, 14 July 1874, Lipowiec
- 9 August 1915 (aged 41), Dębica
- Polish
- University of Bern
Culture.pl’s former English section head Adam Żuławski looks back at the life of his grandfather, his family tree, and the history of Polish sci-fi to weave an intimate and intricate tapestry of answers for you.
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In 1901 Żuławski moved to Zakopane in the Polish Tatra mountains. There, he was a co-founder of the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue, and co-editor of Zakopane. During World War I he fought in the Polish Legions and was co-editor of a Legion-run magazine Do Broni (editor’s translation: To Arms).
Jul 19, 2016 · In some ways, that’s precisely because of its incomplete condition and Zuławski’s attempt to repair the damage by highlighting it—exposing his film’s scars, as it were. His original intention was to adapt the first novel in a science-fiction trilogy written in 1903 by his great-uncle Jerzy Zuławski.
Dec 30, 2022 · The poster “Poland – First to Fight” refers to the most important events in the country’s history – World War II and the defense against Nazi Germany’s invasion in 1939. Marek Zulawski created the poster around 1940. In the foreground, it shows a battered Polish flag flying in the wind.
Mar 20, 2024 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerzy Zulawski – a novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher, and above all one of the Polish pioneers of science fiction. It was Jerzy Zulawski who was the first speculative fiction writer to create a vision of a lunar vehicle.
Mar 5, 2013 · Even in the relatively open and experimental context of “third generation” Polish cinema at the time, Żuławski’s film was an affront to the most “sacred” period of both Polish history and its cinematic representation, namely the Polish experience of the Second World War.
