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| Wilhelm Szewczyk | |
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 Wilhelm Szewczyk | |
| Born | (1916-01-05)January 5, 1916 Czuchów, Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Province of Silesia |
| Died | June 8, 1991(1991-06-08) (aged 75) Katowice, Poland |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, translator, politician |
| Nationality | Polish |
Wilhelm Szewczyk (5 January 1916 – 8 June 1991) was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic, translator, activist of the National Radical Camp, communist, and member of parliament from the region of Silesia.
He was born in Czuchów (now part of Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County) and was raised in familok in Czerwionka. Szewczyk attended State Liceum in Rybnik and after finishing it relocated to Katowice; and until 1939 worked in local radio station of Polskie Radio.
During World War II he was forced to join the German Army and in 1941-1942 stayed on the Western Front in Normandy and later on the Eastern Front in Soviet Union. In August 1941 was injured at the battle of Smolensk. When healed in Thuringia, he was sent to Alsace to the front. For his pacifist stances was arrested and in 1942 jailed in Katowice.
After the war Szewczyk returned to Katowice where he worked as editor of Odra weekly and in 1947-1951 was a literary director of Silesian Theatre. He then worked in several literary magazines.
Szewczyk was also a deputy in the Sejm (Parliament) in 1957-1965 and 1969-1980. He died on 8 June 1991 in Katowice and is buried in the local Protestant Cemetery.
Works
- Posągi (1945) - poetry collection
- Portret Łużyczanki Mina Witkojc (1948) - about the Lower Sorbian poetress, journalist and patriot Mina Witkojc
- Skarb Donnersmarcków (1956)
- Z kraju Lompy (1957)
- Wyprzedaż samotności (1959)
- Literatura niemiecka w XX wieku (1962, 1964)
- Od wiosny do jesieni (1965)
- Kleszcze
- Czarne słońce
- Klara Krause – short stories collection
- Syndrom śląski (1985) - collection of essays
References
- Collective work (1984). Kto jest kim w Polsce 1984 (1st ed.). Warsaw: Wydwawnictwo Interpress. ISBN 8322320736.
Bibliography
- Hierowski, Zdzisław (1947). 25 lat literatury na Śląsku 1920–1945. Katowice – Wrocław: Wydawnictwa Instytutu Śląskiego. OCLC 69489660.
- 1916 births
- 1991 deaths
- People from Rybnik County
- Polish Lutherans
- Polish translators
- Polish politicians
- German Army personnel of World War II
- Writers from the Province of Silesia
- 20th-century Polish translators
- 20th-century Polish poets
- Polish male poets
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- 20th-century Lutherans
- Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland