Andrzej Szczypiorski

3. February 1928: born in Warsaw

1944 Participant in the Warsaw uprising

1944 Imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

1945 Liberated. Return to Warsaw

1977 onwards: opposition activities with the Workers Defence Committee and the PPN. Publications in underground newspapers

1981 Interned after the declaration of martial law in Poland

1989–1991 Political activities in the democratic parties “Komitet Obywatelski” (Citizens Committee) and “Unia Demokratyczna” (Democratic Union)

16th of May 2000: Andrzej Szczypiorski dies in Warsaw

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Source: PAP/Przemek Wierzchowski

Bibliography / Selection of books in German

1979 Eine Messe für die Stadt Arras
1988 Die schöne Frau Seidenman
1989 Amerikanischer Whiskey
1990 Notizen zum Stand der Dinge
1991 Nacht, Tag und Nacht
1993 Der Teufel im Graben
1994 Selbstporträt mit Frau
1993 Den Schatten fangen
2000 Feuerspiele

Biographical additions

Andrzej Szczypiorski not only consciously worked in the cause of German-Polish reconciliation, he was also committed to the “Society for Polish-Israeli Friendship” (Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko-Izraelskiej TPPI).

Andrzej Szczypiorski was the chairman of the “Polish Foundation for Children and Young People”. Since 2000 the foundation has awarded the Andrzej Szczypiorski prize to people who have a “positive influence on their social environment”.

In 2007 Polish television broadcast an episode from the popular historical series “Errata do biografii” (Correcting Biographies), on the life of Andrzej Szczypiosrki and above all on his collaboration with the State Security Forces (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) from 1955 onwards. The filmmakers drew their material from documents in the Polish National Remembrance Institute (IPN).

Adam Gusowski, December 2013

Sources:

Encyklopedia PWN

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej IPN

Haus der Begegnung “Adrzej Szczypiorski” in Sachsenhausen

Krzysztof Kurek z Polskiej Fundacji Dzieci i Młodzieży w Warszawie

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek