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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
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).
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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.
Żuławski's father had been an insurgent in the 1863 January Uprising, and Jerzy himself died in World War I as a soldier of the Polish Legions. The intellectual influence is reflected in his many patriotic poems and a close engagement with Polish Romantic literature.
- Łukasz Wodzyński
- 2018
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 · Zulawski’s work tells the story of a tragic expedition to the Moon, which results in the creation of a new civilization – and with it a religion and social structure – cut off from the sources of earthly culture.
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.
