Not to be mistaken for Andrzej Kijowski

Andrzej Kijowski

Andrzej Kijowski was a Polish literary critic, essayist, prose and screenwriter. His son is poet and critic Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski....

, his father.

Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski (b. 15 July 1954, Kraków

Kraków

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) is a Polish aesthetician, theatre critic

Theatre

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, literary critic, poet

Poet

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 and publicist

Publicist

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.
Son of the writer

Writer

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 Andrzej Kijowski

Andrzej Kijowski

Andrzej Kijowski was a Polish literary critic, essayist, prose and screenwriter. His son is poet and critic Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski....

. From 1976 to 1989 participated in the democratic opposition. Cooperated with KOR (Workers' Defence Committee

Workers' Defence Committee

The Workers’ Defense Committee was a Polish civil society group that emerged under communist rule to give aid to prisoners & their families after the June 1976 protests & government crackdown...

) and NOWa (Independent Printing House).From 1990 to 1994 helped to create the new self-government.

He worked at Nowa Telewizja and TV Polonia 1

Polonia 1

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 in Warsaw

Warsaw

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 from 1992 to 1995, where he made over 250 television programmes. Author of the Garden Theatre Competition and the Frascati Gardens arts festival.

Member of the Polish Writers’ Association, the Polish Journalists’ Association, and the Freedom of Word Association.

Literary Work

• Chwyt Teatralny (Theatrical trick); (Wydawnictwo Literackie 1982, ISBN 83-0800-954-9)
• Teoria Teatru (The Theory of Theatre); (Ossolineum 1985, ISBN 83-0401-935-3)
• Separacja.SMS-y poetyckie (Separation, SMS poetics); (published by author 2005, ISBN 83-9232-925-2)
• Opis obyczajów w 15-leciu międzysojuszniczym 1989-2004 (Description of the mores between the two alliances 1989-2004) (AnTraKt Publisher) 2010
  • Odsłanianie Dramatu (Revealing the drama) (I) ISBN 978-83-923292-6-8
  • A Teraz Konkretnie (And now, more precisely) (II) ISBN 978-83-923292-7-5
  • Teatr to miejsce spotkania (The theater is a meeting place)
    • Paradoks o Ogródkach (Garden's Paradox) (III) ISBN 978-83-923292-8-2
    • Thea to znaczy widzenie (Thea that is to say the View) (IV) ISBN 978-83-923292-9-9

See also

• List of aestheticians
• List of Polish language poets

Sources

• Who is Who w Polsce (6 edition: ISBN 3-7290-0058-6) ;Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG) - Hübners Who is Who
• Paradoks o ogródkach (Garden's Paradox) - by ROMAN PAWŁOWSKI - Gazeta Wyborcza 27-08.2001