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Zdzisław Nardelli

Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
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The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw

In his role as a radio director, writer and poet, Zdzisław (Rudolf) Nardelli was a leading cultural personality in Poland after the end of the Second World War. He was born on 18. October 1913 into an Italian merchant family that had settled in Cieszyn in the 18th century. 

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  • His debut as poet - „Świt na nowo” [Daybreak Anew], tomik poezji [volume of poetry], editor, F. Hoesick. Warsaw 1938, and poem entitled “Wyjazd” [Departure].
  • Stalag VIII C in Sagan - Reprint from the folder: Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich [Prisoner of War Camp Museum]. Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft 3, edited by Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich, Żagań [Sagan] 2014.
  • ‘Szopka Sagańska’ [Sagan nativity play, authors: Zdzisław Nardelli - text, Jan Świderski and Tadeusz Łakomski - drawings - ‘Uwaga! Sagan wrze...’ [Attention! It's boiling in Sagan...] (title page), nativity play for New Year, performed by Polish prisoners in Sagan (1939) and Görlitz (1940).
  • Page with the triangular censor seal ‘tested’ of Stalag VIII C in Sagan - ‘Oczko we mgle...’ [A Tiny Eye in the Fog], in: ‘Szopka Sagańska’.
  • Caricature of Zdzisław Nardelli - In: “Szopka Sagańskiej” [Sagan Nativity Play].
  • Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - A view of the barracks. (Série 4. Edit. Phototypia Légia, Liége).
  • Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform - During a campaign in Metz in eastern France in 1939/40.
  • ‘Wieczór polski’ [Polish Evening] in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - The programme of the Polish Evening (cover), created by Bohdan Samulski.
  • ‘Tested’ seal of the camp censor - On the inside of the programme.
  • Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski - After escaping from captivity, Mętrak came to Poland and served as a sub-lieutenant ‘Duch’ in the Home Army. After the war, professor at the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, engineer in the wood technology department.
  • Ensign Bohdan Samulski after his escape from captivity - Officer in General Stanisław Maczek's 1st Armoured Division, awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. Outstanding architect in Belgium after the war.
  • Minutes of the Gestapo arrest - Zdzisław Nardelli is also imprisoned in Brauweiler prison.
  • Employment of Zdzisław Nardelli as Head of the Art Department in May 1945 - Newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt.
  • A list of the staff in the Arts Office - Headed by Zdzisław Nardelli from May 1945.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you] - The only existing film reel in the FN..
  • Portrait of Olivier Messiaens. - Fot. Inghi, Paris.
  • Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli -
  • Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio - In front of the wall of his study with autographs of radio artists from Polish Radio in Warsaw.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist - After leaving Polish Radio.
  • “Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland] - Cover.
  • „Otchłań ptaków” - Cover.
  • Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz - In a copy of “Otchłań ptaków” [The Birds’ Hell].
  • “Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante] - Cover.
  • The grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.
  • Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Protestant-Augsburg cemetery.
His debut as poet - „Świt na nowo” [Daybreak Anew], tomik poezji [volume of poetry], editor, F. Hoesick. Warsaw 1938, and poem entitled “Wyjazd” [Departure].
His debut as poet
His debut as poet - „Świt na nowo” [Daybreak Anew], tomik poezji [volume of poetry], editor, F. Hoesick. Warsaw 1938, and poem entitled “Wyjazd” [Departure]. © National Library, Warsaw.
Stalag VIII C in Sagan - Reprint from the folder: Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich [Prisoner of War Camp Museum]. Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft 3, edited by Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich, Żagań [Sagan] 2014.
Stalag VIII C in Sagan
Stalag VIII C in Sagan - Reprint from the folder: Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich [Prisoner of War Camp Museum]. Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft 3, edited by Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich, Żagań [Sagan] 2014. © Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich
‘Szopka Sagańska’ [Sagan nativity play, authors: Zdzisław Nardelli - text, Jan Świderski and Tadeusz Łakomski - drawings - ‘Uwaga! Sagan wrze...’ [Attention! It
‘Szopka Sagańska’ [Sagan nativity play, authors: Zdzisław Nardelli - text, Jan Świderski and Tadeusz Łakomski - drawings
‘Szopka Sagańska’ [Sagan nativity play, authors: Zdzisław Nardelli - text, Jan Świderski and Tadeusz Łakomski - drawings - ‘Uwaga! Sagan wrze...’ [Attention! It's boiling in Sagan...] (title page), nativity play for New Year, performed by Polish prisoners in Sagan (1939) and Görlitz (1940). © The family collection of Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Kraków.
Page with the triangular censor seal ‘tested’ of Stalag VIII C in Sagan - ‘Oczko we mgle...’ [A Tiny Eye in the Fog], in: ‘Szopka Sagańska’.
Page with the triangular censor seal ‘tested’ of Stalag VIII C in Sagan
Page with the triangular censor seal ‘tested’ of Stalag VIII C in Sagan - ‘Oczko we mgle...’ [A Tiny Eye in the Fog], in: ‘Szopka Sagańska’. © The family collection of Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Kraków
His debut as poet
„Świt na nowo” [Daybreak Anew], tomik poezji [volume of poetry], editor, F. Hoesick. Warsaw 1938, and poem entitled “Wyjazd” [Departure].
Stalag VIII C in Sagan
Reprint from the folder: Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich [Prisoner of War Camp Museum]. Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft 3, edited by Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich, Żagań [Sagan] 2014.
‘Szopka Sagańska’ [Sagan nativity play, authors: Zdzisław Nardelli - text, Jan Świderski and Tadeusz Łakomski - drawings
‘Uwaga! Sagan wrze...’ [Attention! It's boiling in Sagan...] (title page), nativity play for New Year, performed by Polish prisoners in Sagan (1939) and Görlitz (1940).
Page with the triangular censor seal ‘tested’ of Stalag VIII C in Sagan
‘Oczko we mgle...’ [A Tiny Eye in the Fog], in: ‘Szopka Sagańska’.
Caricature of Zdzisław Nardelli - In: “Szopka Sagańskiej” [Sagan Nativity Play].
Caricature of Zdzisław Nardelli
Caricature of Zdzisław Nardelli - In: “Szopka Sagańskiej” [Sagan Nativity Play]. © The family collection of Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Kraków
Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - A view of the barracks. (Série 4. Edit. Phototypia Légia, Liége).
Stalag VIII A in Görlitz
Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - A view of the barracks. (Série 4. Edit. Phototypia Légia, Liége). © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform - During a campaign in Metz in eastern France in 1939/40.
Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform
Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform - During a campaign in Metz in eastern France in 1939/40. © The archive of Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Paris.
‘Wieczór polski’ [Polish Evening] in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - The programme of the Polish Evening (cover), created by Bohdan Samulski.
‘Wieczór polski’ [Polish Evening] in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz
‘Wieczór polski’ [Polish Evening] in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - The programme of the Polish Evening (cover), created by Bohdan Samulski. © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
Caricature of Zdzisław Nardelli
In: “Szopka Sagańskiej” [Sagan Nativity Play].
Stalag VIII A in Görlitz
A view of the barracks. (Série 4. Edit. Phototypia Légia, Liége).
Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform
During a campaign in Metz in eastern France in 1939/40.
‘Wieczór polski’ [Polish Evening] in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz
The programme of the Polish Evening (cover), created by Bohdan Samulski.
‘Tested’ seal of the camp censor - On the inside of the programme.
‘Tested’ seal of the camp censor
‘Tested’ seal of the camp censor - On the inside of the programme. © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski - After escaping from captivity, Mętrak came to Poland and served as a sub-lieutenant ‘Duch’ in the Home Army. After the war, professor at the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, engineer in the wood...
Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski
Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski - After escaping from captivity, Mętrak came to Poland and served as a sub-lieutenant ‘Duch’ in the Home Army. After the war, professor at the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, engineer in the wood... © The collection of Piotr Mętrak, Warsaw
Ensign Bohdan Samulski after his escape from captivity - Officer in General Stanisław Maczek
Ensign Bohdan Samulski after his escape from captivity
Ensign Bohdan Samulski after his escape from captivity - Officer in General Stanisław Maczek's 1st Armoured Division, awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. Outstanding architect in Belgium after the war. © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
Minutes of the Gestapo arrest - Zdzisław Nardelli is also imprisoned in Brauweiler prison.
Minutes of the Gestapo arrest
Minutes of the Gestapo arrest - Zdzisław Nardelli is also imprisoned in Brauweiler prison. © ACMJW Opole-Łambinowice [the archive of the Central Museum for Prisoners-of-War in Oppeln-Lamsdorf].
‘Tested’ seal of the camp censor
On the inside of the programme.
Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski
After escaping from captivity, Mętrak came to Poland and served as a sub-lieutenant ‘Duch’ in the Home Army. After the war, professor at the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, engineer in the wood...
Ensign Bohdan Samulski after his escape from captivity
Officer in General Stanisław Maczek's 1st Armoured Division, awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. Outstanding architect in Belgium after the war.
Minutes of the Gestapo arrest
Zdzisław Nardelli is also imprisoned in Brauweiler prison.
Employment of Zdzisław Nardelli as Head of the Art Department in May 1945 - Newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt.
Employment of Zdzisław Nardelli as Head of the Art Department in May 1945
Employment of Zdzisław Nardelli as Head of the Art Department in May 1945 - Newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt. © ACMJW Opole-Łambinowice
A list of the staff in the Arts Office - Headed by Zdzisław Nardelli from May 1945.
A list of the staff in the Arts Office
A list of the staff in the Arts Office - Headed by Zdzisław Nardelli from May 1945. © ACMJW Opole-Łambinowice
Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you] - The only existing film reel in the FN..
Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you]
Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you] - The only existing film reel in the FN.. © Filmoteka Narodowa [National Film Archive]
Portrait of Olivier Messiaens. - Fot. Inghi, Paris.
Portrait of Olivier Messiaens.
Portrait of Olivier Messiaens. - Fot. Inghi, Paris. © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
Employment of Zdzisław Nardelli as Head of the Art Department in May 1945
Newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt.
A list of the staff in the Arts Office
Headed by Zdzisław Nardelli from May 1945.
Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you]
The only existing film reel in the FN..
Portrait of Olivier Messiaens.
Fot. Inghi, Paris.
Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli - null
Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli
Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli - null © Source: ACMJW Opole-Łambinowice
Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio - In front of the wall of his study with autographs of radio artists from Polish Radio in Warsaw.
Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio
Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio - In front of the wall of his study with autographs of radio artists from Polish Radio in Warsaw. © The Polish Radio archive
Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist - After leaving Polish Radio.
Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist
Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist - After leaving Polish Radio. © Filmweb
“Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland] - Cover.
“Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland]
“Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland] - Cover. © Śląsk
Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli
Certificate from the International Red Cross for Nardelli
Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio
In front of the wall of his study with autographs of radio artists from Polish Radio in Warsaw.
Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist
After leaving Polish Radio.
“Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland]
Cover.
„Otchłań ptaków” - Cover.
„Otchłań ptaków”
„Otchłań ptaków” - Cover. © Śląsk
Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz - In a copy of “Otchłań ptaków” [The Birds’ Hell].
Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz
Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz - In a copy of “Otchłań ptaków” [The Birds’ Hell]. © The collection of Jerzy Stankiewicz, Kraków
“Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante] - Cover.
“Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante]
“Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante] - Cover. © Radio and Television Publishing House
The grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.
The grave of Zdzisław Nardelli
The grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.
„Otchłań ptaków”
Cover.
Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz
In a copy of “Otchłań ptaków” [The Birds’ Hell].
“Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante]
Cover.
The grave of Zdzisław Nardelli
Catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.
Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Protestant-Augsburg cemetery.
Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli
Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Protestant-Augsburg cemetery.
Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli
Protestant-Augsburg cemetery.
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Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
©
The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw

Bibliography:
 

Zdzisław Nardelli, Świt na nowo [Daybreak Anew]. Tomik poezji [volume of poetry], Warsaw 1938.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Kawiarnia plastyków [The Café of Painters], in: Cyganeria i polityka. Wspomnienia krakowskie 1919-1939 [Bohemia and politics. Memories from Kraków 1919-1939], Warsaw 1969.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Proza nasycona poezją [Prose saturated with poetry], introduction to: Jerzy Janicki, Kłaniaj się drzewom [I bow before the trees], Warsaw 1973.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Pasztet z ojczyzny [A Pie from the Homeland], Katowice 1985.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Płaskorzeźby dyletanta [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante]. Warsaw 1988.

Zdzisław. Nardelli, Otchłań ptaków [The Birds’ Hell], Katowice 1989.

Anne Bongrain (ed.), Messiaen au Conservatoire, Paris 2008.

Myriam Chimènes (ed.), La Vie musicale sous Vichy, Brussels 2004.

Antoine Goléa, Rencontres avec Olivier Messiaen, Paris 1961.

Peter Hill, Nigel Simeone, Olivier Messiaen, Paris 2008.

Tadeusz Kaczyński, Messiaen, Kraków 1984.

Hannelore Lauerwald, In Fremdem Land, Görlitz 1997.

Hannelore Lauerwald, Primum vivere. Zuerst leben. Wie Gefangene das Stalag VIII A in Görlitz erlebten. Dokumentation auf Grundlage mündlicher and schriftlicher Quellen ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener aus Frankreich, Belgien and Italien, Bautzen 2009.

Anthony Pople, Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, Cambridge 1998.

Rebecca Rischin, Et Messiaen composa…, Paris 2006.

Almut Rössler, Beiträge zur geistigen Welt Olivier Messiaens, Duisburg 2008.

Claude Samuel, Permanences d’Olivier Messiaen, Arles 1999.

Thomas Daniel Schlee, Dietrich Kämper (oprac.), Olivier Messiaen. La Cité céleste – Das himmlische Jerusalem. Über Leben and Werk des französischen Komponisten, Cologne 1998.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, „Quatuor pour la fin du temps“ von Olivier Messiaen, w: Via Regia kontrovers — Dialog der Horizonte. Internationaler Workshop 2006 in der Europastadt Görlitz–Zgorzelec, hrsg. v. Peter Baumgardt, Gerhard Müller, Görlitz–Zgorzelec 2007.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Ile wykonań „Kwartetu na koniec Czasu” Oliviera Messiaena odbyło się w Stalagu VIII A w Görlitz? Nowe fakty i hipotezy 70 lat później [How often was the “Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen played in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz? New facts and hypotheses 70 years after], „Res Facta Nova”, (Poznań), Nr. 12 (2011).

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Composé et créé dans un camp nazi. Le secret de la naissance du ”Quatuor pour la fin du Temps” d’Olivier Messiaen , „Schweizer Musikzeitung”, (Zürich), Nr. 5 (2012).

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Olivier Messiaen na Śląsku, „Śląsk” [Olivier Messiaen in Silesia], (Katowice), Nr. 4 (2015).

Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, Idee twórcze Oliviera Messiaena [The Artistic Ideas of Olivier Messiaen], „Muzyka”, (Warsaw), Nr. 4 (1978).

Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, Medytacje muzyczne Oliviera Messiaena [Musical Meditations by Olivier Messiaen]. „Chrześcijanin a współczesność” [Christ and the Present Day] (Breslau), Nr. 4 (1989).

Roman Zgłobicki,  Życie kulturalne w obozie jeńców wojennych Stalagu VIII w Zgorzelcu [Cultural Live in the POW camp Stalag VIII in Görlitz]. „Rocznik Jeleniogórski” [Hirschberger Jahrbücher], vol. 18 (1980).

Roman Zgłobicki,  Hitlerowski obóz jeńców wojennych w Zgorzelcu Stalag VIII A  (Görlitz-Moys) i jego cmentarze [The National Socialist POW camp Stalag VIII A in Görlitz-Moys and its cemeteries], chapter in work: Ebd., Obozy i cmentarze wojenne w Zgorzelcu [War camps and cemeteries in Görlitz]. Zgorzelec 1995.

Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
©
The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw
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