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Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was a Polish-Jewish writer, literary critic, visual artist, and art teacher.
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culture · Polish Jewish writer and artist (1892-1942) · writer · painter · literary critic · draftsperson · graphic artist · also Bruno Schulz, Schulz
Born 12 July 1892 · Died 19 November 1942 · Q148886
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s works have been lost, including short stories from the early 1940s that the author had sent to be published in magazines, and his final, unfinished novel, The Messiah. From May 2024, the only surviving literary manuscript by Bruno Schulz (short story Second Autumn (Polish: Druga jesień) is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. English translations The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass were featured in Penguin
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2024· 1 entry
“s works have been lost, including short stories from the early 1940s that the author had sent to be published in magazines, and his final, unfinished novel, The Messiah. From May 2024, the only surviving literary manuscript by Bruno Schulz (short story Second Autumn (Polish: Druga jesień) is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. English translations The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass were featured in Penguin”
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2020· 1 entry
Sublunary Editions published Frank Garrett's translation of Undula, an early story by Schulz which appeared in Dawn: The Journal of Petroleum Officials in Boryslav under the pseudonym Marceli Weron
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2011· 1 entry
The Austrian Rock and Roll Band "Nebenjob" published the song "Wer erschoss Bruno Schulz
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2010· 1 entry
Jonathan Safran Foer "wrote" his Tree of Codes by cutting into the pages of an English language edition of Schulz' The Street of Crocodiles thus creating a new text
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2008· 2 entries
A play based on Cinnamon Shops, directed by Frank Soehnle and performed by the Puppet Theatre from Białystok, was performed at the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków
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When Israel recognised the works as "the property and cultural wealth" of Ukraine, and Ukraine's Drohobychyna Museum agreed to let Yad Vashem keep them as a long-term loan
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2007· 1 entry
Physical theatre company Double Edge Theatre premiered a piece called Republic of Dreams, based on the life and works of Bruno Schulz
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2006· 1 entry
As part of a site-specific series in a historic Minneapolis office building, Skewed Visions created the multimedia performance/installation The Hidden Room
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2003· 1 entry
Containing two additional chapters to the Polish edition; one on Schulz's lost work, Messiah, the other on the rediscovery of Schulz's murals
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1998· 1 entry
When it played in New York (Lincoln Center Festival) and other cities in the United States, Tokyo and Australia before returning to London to play an 8-week sell-out season at the Queens Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue
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1992· 1 entry
An experimental theatre piece based on The Street of Crocodiles was conceived and directed by Simon McBurney and produced by Theatre de Complicite in collaboration with the National Theatre in London
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1975· 1 entry
Entitled The Book of Letters, as well as a number of critical essays that Schulz wrote for various newspapers
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1957· 1 entry
Leading to French, German, and later English translations
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1942· 12 entries
Died 1942-11-19.
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Schulz was walking home through the "Aryan quarter" with a loaf of bread, when another Gestapo officer, Karl Günther, shot him with a small pistol, killing him
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Was shot dead by a Gestapo officer while carrying a loaf of bread to his home in the Drohobycz Ghetto
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“Czy to nie jest wielka rzecz – znaczyć dla kogoś wszystko?”
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“Dobrze jest i pokrzepiająco – mieć przyjaciół z ducha.”
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“Słabość ludzi wydaje nam ich dusze, czyni ich potrzebującymi. Bez przywar byliby zamknięci w sobie i nie potrzebujący niczego. Dopiero ich wady nadają im smak i czynią pociągającymi.”
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“To jest największe nieszczęście – nie wyżyć życia.”
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“Każdy wie, że w szeregu zwykłych, normalnych lat rodzi niekiedy zdziwaczały czas ze swego łona lata inne, lata osobliwe, lata wyrodne, którym, jak szósty mały palec u ręki, wyrasta kędyś trzynasty, fałszywy miesiąc.”
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“Materii dana jest nieskończona płodność, niewyczerpana moc życiowa i zarazem uwodna siła pokusy, która nas nęci do formowania.”
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“Gdyby sztuka miała tylko potwierdzać, co skądinąd zostało ustalone – byłaby niepotrzebna. Jej rolą jest być sondą zapuszczoną w bezimienne. Artysta jest aparatem rejestrującym procesy w głębi, gdzie tworzy się wartość.”
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“Miał oczy nieprawdopodobnie błękitne, nie stworzone do patrzenia, tylko do bezdennego zniebieszczania się w marzeniu.”
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“Wielkość rozsiana jest skąpo w planie świata.”
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1941· 1 entry
Forced Schulz into the newly formed Drohobycz Ghetto along with thousands of other dispossessed Jews, most of whom perished at the Belzec extermination camp before the end of 1942
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1939· 1 entry
After the Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland in World War II, Drohobych was occupied by the Soviet Union
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1938· 2 entries
Was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award
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Was awarded the prestigious Golden Laurel award of the Polish Academy of Literature
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1936· 1 entry
Helped his fiancée, Józefina Szelińska, translate Franz Kafka's The Trial into Polish
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1917· 1 entry
Briefly studied architecture in Vienna
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1911· 1 entry
But he resumed them in 1913 after two years of convalescence
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-07-12.
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