Pavol "Paľo" Boriš (born 28 October 1954) is a Slovak small-scale wine producer and

author In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work exists in written, graphic, visual, or recorded form. The act of creating such a work is referred to as authorship. Therefore, a sculpt ...

. He is also former coordinator of hobby and artistic activities of SZM local organization in

Pezinok Pezinok (; in the local dialect ''Pezinek''; ; ; ) is a town in southwestern Slovakia. It is roughly northeast of Bratislava and, as of December 2023, had a population of 24,443. Pezinok lies near the Little Carpathians and thrives mainly on vi ...

, high school

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. w ...

and municipal representative. He is known as the second main organizer and also the organizer of both years of the Koncert mladosti festival.

Biography

He was born in

Šaľa Šaľa (, ; , ) is a town in Šaľa District within Nitra Region in south-western Slovakia. Geography Šaľa is located on the Danubian Lowland on both banks of the Váh River, around 65 km from Bratislava and 30 km from Nové Zámky. Be ...

on 28 October 1954.Boriš, Pavol; Štrba, Ján; Bittner, Peter (2007). ''Koncerty mladosti ´76, ´77 – Československý Woodstock''. p. 102. In the summer of 1947, his parents moved to a house in

Neded Neded () is a village and municipality in Šaľa District, in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 112 metres and covers an area of 36.009 km². History In historical records the village was ...

after the

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

. Since 1961, he has lived in

. In 1974, he graduated from

electrical Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...

maturita or its translated terms (''mature'', ''matur'', , , , , ', ) is a Latin name for the secondary school exit exam or "maturity diploma" in various European countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech ...

'' and from 1976 to 1981 he studied mechanical engineering technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, SVŠTHanzlík, Lubomír (2021). ''Fenomén jménem PORTA''. in

Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

. After the Koncert mladosti festival was banned, he was summoned for questioning as a co-organizer and punished by not being able to officially act as a cultural coordinator of the SZM local organization. He was involved in the

VPN Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not c ...

. Between 1989 and 2001, he was a teacher of mechanical engineering subjects at the Secondary Vocational School (). He was a member of the town council in Pezinok from 1990 to 1998. From its founding until 2005, he worked on the committee of the Zväz vinohradníkov a vinárov Pezinok (). In 2003, he became a chief and a main organizer of the newly created event called Fyzulnačka. Boriš' vineyards are located in Škridláky hunt (''hon'') in Pezinok wine district (''rajón''). Together with Peter Bittner and photographer Ján Štrba, they are the authors of three books: the first edition of ''Pezinok – bigbeatown'' with a

compilation Compilation may refer to: *In computer programming, the translation of source code into object code by a compiler **Compilation error **Compilation unit *Product bundling, a marketing strategy used to sell multiple products, such as video game co ...

CD (2001), ''Koncerty mladosti ´76, ´77 – Československý Woodstock'' (2007), and the second edition of ''Pezinok – bigbeatown'' (2024). Boriš and Bittner are also considered chroniclers of

1960s music This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s. In North America and Europe the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of popular music, continuing the shift away from traditional pop that began ...

in Pezinok.

Personal life

Since 1980, he is married to his wife Edita and is the father of Martin (born 1984) and Zuzana (born 1987).

Works

* Boriš, Pavol and Bittner, Peter (2001). ''Pezinok – bigbeatown''. 1. ed. Renesans. . * Boriš, Pavol; Štrba, Ján; Bittner, Peter (2007). ''Koncerty mladosti ´76, ´77 – Československý Woodstock''. * Boriš, Pavol (2022). ''Moje zimné písačky''. * Boriš, Pavol; Štrba, Ján; Bittner, Peter (2024). ''Pezinok – bigbeatown''. 2. ed.

Awards

* 2023: Award of the Mayor of Pezinok for an active life connected with cultural events in Pezinok and in the field of winemaking

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boris, Pavol 1954 births Living people People from Šaľa Winemakers Slovak male writers 20th-century Slovak writers 21st-century Slovak writers Slovak schoolteachers Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni