PROGRAM OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ZYGMUNT HAUPT FESTIVAL

Gorlice © from the collections of Leszek Wojtasiewicz

On September 18th-27th we are inviting you to come to Gorlice and Szymbark for the first Zygmunt Haupt Festival.

The organisers have prepared a program that teems with events focusing on the figure and creative work of the patron, as well as on modern literature and the authors creating it.

During the 10 days of festival, Gorlice and Szymbark will be home to a number of events focusing on the biography and literary output of Zygmunt Haupt, an extraordinary and inequitably forgotten Polish writer. Among the invited guests there will be historians, experts on and lovers of Haupt’s writing, as well as literature researchers – prof. Aleksander Madyda, Andrzej Niewiadomski PhD, Zofia Król PhD, Paweł Panas PhD, Marek Dziedziak. The writer’s son, Arthur Haupt, will be the festival’s special guest.

The program features the vernissage of Zygmunt Haupt’s drawings exhibition (from Arthur Haupt’s collection), the screening of the film “Errata to biography,” and Sławomir Grzymkowski’s monodrama “Non-remembering,” directed by Antoni Ferency. We will also listen to fragments of Haupt’s stories, read by Tomasz Schimscheiner.

We have also invited renowned writers and poets to Gorlice, ones whose creative work in many aspects relates to the writing, and also to the world view of Zygmunt Haupt. Readers will have the opportunity to meet Jurij Andruchowycz, Justyna Bargielska, Waldemar Bawołek, Barbara Klicka, Angelika Kuźniak, Artur Daniel Liskowacki, Weronika Murek, Andrzej Niewiadomski, Wojciech Nowicki, Michał Olszewski, Lidia Ostałowska, Taras Prochaśko, Robert Pucek, Paweł Smoleński, Andrzej Stasiuk, Małgorzata Szejnert, Artur Szlosarek, Ziemowit Szczerek, Krzysztof Środa, Krzysztof Varga, Ewa Winnicka, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, and Bohdan Zadura. The moderators of the auteur meetings will be Darek Foks, Jarosław Klejnocki PhD, Zofia Król PhD, Monika Rogowska-Stangret PhD, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Monika Stopczyk.

The rich literary program will be complemented by interesting musical events. We will listen to Jurij Andruchowycz and Karbido, Laboratorium Pieśni, and Misha Alperin, pianist and composer working with the prestigious record company ECM. Admission to the concerts, as to all festival events, is free.

We invite you to get familiar with the list of GUESTS and the PROGRAM of the festival, and to visit Gorlice and Szymbark in the second half of September.