The “Kultura” Team

JERZY GIEDROYC

Within the history of “Kultura”, the three most momentous events in my private history were the illnesses and deaths of...

Responsibility for Europe. Jerzy Stempowski, Jerzy Giedroyc and Germany

BASIL KERSKI

It is difficult to write of Jerzy Stempowski’s output as an essayist without thinking of Jerzy Giedroyc. Just as difficult...

Mikhail (Michel) Heller – the “Polish Russian” of the Literary Institute

JĘDRZEJ PIEKARA

This article, written by Jędrzej Piekara, was based on his bachelor’s thesis defended in June 2017. Source materials were...

Wystawa "Jerzy Giedroyc i Jego dzieło"

Niniejsza wystawa prezentuje ważną część dziedzictwa Jerzego Giedroycia i Instytutu Literackiego w 60. rocznicę powstania...

Malraux

JÓZEF CZAPSKI

André Malraux has died. Is it possible, today, to write of him, when television, radio and press are full of memoirs of...

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A Disposition for the Political...

ANDRZEJ STANISŁAW KOWALCZYK

A chapter from Andrzej S. Kowalczyk’s book “Wena do polityki. O Giedroyciu i Mieroszewskim” (A Disposition for the Political....

Jerzy Giedroyc – the precursor of post-war Polish-German dialogue

BASIL KERSKI

Among the majority of Poland’s political and cultural elites, Jerzy Giedroyc is today regarded as the great gardener of...

“Kultura” and a united Europe

IWONA HOFMAN

The idea of a united Europe, discussed in the pages of the monthly “Kultura” practically from the outset, was not the only...

Laureaci

Nagrody literackie „Kultury” 1954   Marian Pankowski Smagła swoboda 1955   Andrzej Chciuk Smutny uśmiech            Leo...

Giedroyc – man of the east

ANDRZEJ BRZEZIECKI

“I am a man of the east” – wrote Jerzy Giedroyc to Juliusz Mieroszewski in 1966. It would be a serious mistake to think...