THE 3RD ZYGMUNT HAUPT FESTIVAL — PROGRAM
For the third time we wish to invite you to Gorlice for the Zygmunt Haupt Festival. The program includes topical and auteur meetings, as well as concerts.
ZYGMUNT HAUPT — the greatest of the inequitably forgotten Polish authors, he has a separate place in Polish literature, his artistic input remains almost unprecedented. Writer, painter, architect, journalist. Born in 1907 in Podolia, died in 1975 in Winchester (USA). Haupt’s stories, always written in a first-person form of soliloquy, are made up of overlapping images, dense frames sketched within the imagination of a writer and painter. One episode was all he ever needed to enter a mysterious reality where the past blends with the present, and the places that are real with those imagined and remembered. The fragile, elusive, and ephemeral fuses with the permanent and the all-human.
ANDRZEJ STASIUK (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL) remembers his first encounter with the works of Zygmunt Haupt as follows: “It was the first Polish literature, the first Polish writing, that struck at my heart so deeply, and since then never have I come across works so incisive, so beautiful in Polish literature.”
Every day of the festival will offer TOPICAL MEETINGS concerning the life and works of the Festival patron. Gorlice will be visited by researchers focusing on Haupt’s works: prof. Aleksander Madyda, Andrzej Niewiadomski PhD, and Paweł Panas PhD. There will also be special guests: prof. Lajos Pálfalvi (head of the Department of Polish Studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, translator of Polish literature, winner of the 2017 Transatlantyk Award), Paweł Sołtys, alias Pablopavo (singer, songwriter, and journalist), as well as Arthur Haupt (the author’s son).
Taking into account the participation in the development of the Polish literary scene, the promotion of reading and valuable phenomena in contemporary literature, we have planned a series of AUTEUR MEETINGS. Since Haupt’s works combine poetic sensitivity, prose imaginativeness, and journalistic mindfulness, each of these genres will leave a trace in the Festival’s program. Gorlice will hold auteur meetings with the following authors:: Waldemar Bawołek, Ádám Bodor (Hungary), Małgorzata Czyńska, Weronika Gogola, Aldona Kopkiewicz, Antoni Kroh, Karol Maliszewski, Bronka Nowicka, Michał Olszewski, Marcin Sendecki, Żanna Słoniowska, Ziemowit Szczerek, Varujan Vosganian (Romania).
The auteur and topical meetings will be moderated by: Wojciech Bonowicz, prof. Aleksander Madyda, Karol Maliszewski, Paweł Panas PhD, Monika Rogowska-Stangret PhD, Andrzej Stasiuk, Monika Stopczyk.
We also have good news for all book addicts. During the festival, Gorlice’s bookstore Mieszko will be selling books written by our guests.
This year’s program also includes CONCERTS. The Festival will open musically with Pablopavo — winner of the Paszport Polityki award (2014), an artist known from such groups and projects such as: Vavamuffin, Zjednoczenie Sound System, and Pablopavo i Ludziki. The Hungarian band Göncölszekér will present material from their album Izrael földjén (In the Land of Israel), which includes pieces composed to poems by Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, and Osip Mandelsztam. The final concert will be that of Jacek Kleyff — legend of Polish counter-culture, a charismatic individual and witty erudite.
The festival is organised by the Academic Office of Culture and Art Alma-Art, the Stanisław Gabryel City Library in Gorlice, the Gorlice City Council, and the Czarne Publishing House.
The Festival program is available in the DOWNLOADS tab. The Festival takes place on September 21st-24th 2017 at the Stanisław Gabryel City Library in Gorlice as well as the Gorlice Culture Centre. Admission to all events is free.
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