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Paszport Polityki
Paszport Polityki (Polityka's Passport) is an annual Polish cultural award presented by the weekly magazine ''Polityka'' since 1993. It is presented in six major categories: literature, film, theatre, classical music, popular music, visual arts (and entertainment up until 2005). In 2002 a new, seventh category was added: creator of culture while in 2016 the eighth category added was digital culture. According to the editorial declaration, the award is a distinction for creators who make the fastest progress, surprise with new achievements, their activities bode well in the future and thus deserve care, support and promotion in the world. The award's name was conceived as a symbolic passport to the world's art.''Paszporty "Polityki" 1998''. "Polityka" Nr. 1/1999 (2174), p. 44, 2 January 1999 (in Polish) It is usually given to relatively young creators, often for outstanding debuts. List of laureates See also *List of European art awards *Nike Award * Silesius Poetry Award *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polityka
''Polityka'' (, ''Politics'') is a centre-left weekly news magazine in Poland. With a circulation of 200,050 (as of April 2011), it was the country's biggest selling weekly, ahead of ''Newsweek''s Polish edition, ''Newsweek Polska'', and ''Wprost''. ''Polityka'' has a slightly intellectual, socially liberal profile, setting it apart from the more conservative ''Wprost'' and the glossier approach of ''Newsweek Poland''. Prominent editors and permanent contributors have included Adam Krzemiński, Janina Paradowska, Daniel Passent, Ludwik Stomma, Adam Szostkiewicz, Jacek Żakowski, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jerzy Urban, and Krzysztof Zanussi. History and profile Established in 1957, after Stalinism had subsided in Poland, ''Polityka'' slowly developed a reputation for moderately critical journalism, promoting economical way of thinking, although always remaining within the communist-imposed boundaries that still constrained the press. Notably, ''Polityka'' was launched to replace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Marcinów
Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a Binary star, binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B). Mira A is a pulsating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. It is the prototype of the Mira variables. Nomenclature ο Ceti (Romanization of Greek, Latinised to ''Omicron Ceti'') is the star's Bayer designation. It was named Mira (Latin for 'wonderful' or 'astonishing') by Johannes Hevelius in his ''Historiola Mirae Stellae'' (1662). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawid Ciślak
Dawid is a Polish masculine given name, related to David, and more rarely a surname. People with the name include: Given name * Dawid Abrahamowicz (1839–1926), Polish politician * Dawid Abramowicz (born 1991), Polish footballer * Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum, fictitious World War II Polish Army officer and a commander of the Jewish Military Union * Dawid Bezuidenhout (1935–1998), teacher and politician in South West Africa * Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944), Polish chess master * Dawid Dryja (born 1992), Polish volleyball player * Dawid Dynarek (born 1989), Polish footballer * Dawid Dzięgielewski (born 1993), Polish footballer * Dawid Jackiewicz (born 1973), Polish politician and former Minister of State Treasury * Dawid Janowski (1868–1927), Polish-born French chess player * Dawid Jarka (born 1987), Polish footballer * Dawid Kamiński (born 1995), Polish footballer * Dawid Kasperski (born 1990), Polish Muay Thai kickboxer * Dawid Kellerman, 21st century South African rugby un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weronika Gęsicka
Weronika is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kcynia, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Kcynia, south-west of Nakło nad Notecią, and west of Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more .... The village has a population of 80. References Weronika {{Nakło-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Józef Orliński
Jakub Józef Orliński (; born 8 December 1990) is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt. He is the recipient of numerous international awards including the Gramophone Classical Music Award (2019), International Opera Award (2021) and International Classical Music Award (2022). Education and career He was born in 1990 in Warsaw. After singing in a choir as a child, as a teenager Orliński joined a nine-member male vocal group and was chosen to sing countertenor parts in some Renaissance music. He also became a fan of The King's Singers, who inspired him to take his interest in the genre further. He began his music career in the male choir Gregorianum led by Berenika Jozajtis, with which he performed both in Poland and abroad. He is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. During his studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weronika Szczawińska
Weronika is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kcynia, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Kcynia, south-west of Nakło nad Notecią, and west of Bydgoszcz. The village has a population of 80. References Villages in Nakło County, Weronika {{Nakło-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartosz Bielenia
Bartosz Bielenia (born 15 May 1992) is a Polish film and stage actor. Education In 2016, Bielenia graduated from AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. Career He made his debut in 1999 at the Aleksander Wegierko Dramatic Theater in Białystok as the title character in the play ''The Little Prince''. From 2013 he played in Bagatela Theatre in Krakow, where he debuted with the role of the consumptive seventeen-year-old Ippolit Terentyev in Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky's ''The Idiot''. In the years 2014–2017 he performed at the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków. Since 2018 he has been performing in the New Theater in Warsaw. In 2019, Bielenia took on the starring role in ''Corpus Christi (2019 film), Corpus Christi'', earning wide acclaim for his performance. He received a Polish Academy Award for Best Actor as well as Best Actor awards at festivals including the El Gouna Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival and the Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika Słowik
Dominika Słowik (born 1988) is a Polish writer. Her novel ''Zimowla'' brought her the Paszport Polityki 2019 award. Early life and education Dominika Słowik was born on 10 September 1988, in Jaworzno, where she completed her primary and secondary education. She then studied Spanish philology at the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of Jagiellonian University. Career Słowik debuted in 2015 with a novel ''Atlas: Doppelganger.'' The book tells the story of a childhood set during the post-1989 transformation era Poland, where the crumbling apartment blocks form a mythical literary scenery. Literary critic Justyna Sobolewska wrote in a review that the opening of the novel contained "one of the best depictions of apartment blocks ever written". ''Atlas: Doppelganger'' was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize. In 2019, Słowik published her second novel, ''Zimowla'': a multilayered coming-of-age story set in a fictitious, sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech Janerka
Lech Andrzej Janerka (born 2 May 1953 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc .../ new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch, based in Wrocław. Discography Studio albums Compilation albums Live albums Video albums References External links Official Webpage(in Polish) 1953 births Living people Musicians from Wrocław Polish bass guitarists Polish songwriters Polish rock singers Polish lyricists 20th-century Polish male singers 21st-century Polish male singers Polish atheists Male bass guitarists Polish male guitarists {{bass-guitarist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Malinowska
Marta may refer to: People * Marta (given name), a feminine given name * Märta, a feminine given name * Marta (surname) :István Márta composer * Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer Places * Marta (river), an Italian river that flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea * Marta, Lazio, a ''comune'' in Italy * Marta, Nepal, a village development committee Arts and entertainment * ''Marta'' (film), a 1971 Spanish film * "Marta" (Ricardo Arjona song), non-charting * "Marta", a song by Alejandra Guzmán, from the album ''Indeleble'' * "Marta" (Nena Daconte song) a song by Nena Daconte, No.6 in Spain * "Marta, Rambling Rose of the Wildwood", 1931 song by Arthur Tracy * "Marta," a song composed by Moisés Simons MARTA * Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area * Mountain Area Regional Transit Authority, the third largest regional transit agency in San Bernardino County, California * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (born 1978) is an international artist, sculptor, painter, activist, feminist and educator, of Romani-Polish origin, winner of the Paszport Polityki Polish art award. In 2022 Mirga-Tas represented Poland at the 59th Venice Biennale as part of the "Milk of Dreams" exhibition, where she was the first Roman artist to represent any country at this art event. Biography Mirga-Tas was born in 1978 in Zakopane, Poland. She is a Romani by origin, a member of the Bargitka. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Krakow in 2004. She started her career as a cardboard sculptor. She developed a unique method of using cardboard, glue and different materials in order to sculpt animal and human figures. Later she sculpted figures of people from wax. After that, she moved on to painting with paint on cardboard, and later on in paint on canvas. Her current works are created in mixed media technique. Her works are characterized by strong colors, she uses different material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
