Jan Pietrzak
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| name = Jan Pietrzak
| image = JKRUK 20211016 JAN PIETRZAK MIELEC SCK DSCN7068.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|4|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland
| occupation = Satirist, singer-songwriter, stage and film actor, and columnist
| years_active = 1960s–present
| employer = Tygodnik Solidarność
}}
Jan Pietrzak (pronounced {{IPA|pl|ˈjan ˈpʲɛtʃak|}}; born 26 April 1937) is a Polish satirist, singer-songwriter, stage and film actor, and columnist for Tygodnik Solidarność (Solidarity Weekly).
Career
Pietrzak was in Warsaw, with Jonasz Kofta, when he co-founded the student cabaret club Hybrydy, which operated in 1962–67.
In 1967 Pietrzak founded Pod Egidą ("Under the Aegis"), a subversive Warsaw literary cabaret. Pietrzak was one of the more popular voices of anticommunism in the People's Republic of Poland.
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Pietrzak attained country-wide and international recognition during the Solidarity years especially with his protest song, "Żeby Polska była Polską" ("So that Poland Could be Poland"—abroad, often called "Let Poland Be Poland") with music by Włodzimierz Korcz. The song became the widely-accepted informal anthem of Poland's Solidarity period.
In February 2024 he was called to The Prosecutor Office in Warsaw in connection with his jokes concerning the compulsory distribution and settlement of the illegal immigrants in Poland.See (in Polish): https://businessinsider.com.pl/prawo/opinie/czy-jan-pietrzak-popelnil-przestepstwo-prawnik-rozwiewa-watpliwosci/mgj3rgc[acc.2 March 2024], and , and (in Polish) Stanisław Piecyk: "NAJGORSZE JEST NIEWOLNICTWO UMYSŁOWE – see: https://mws.org.pl/static/files/newspapers_pdfs/47d4d-84-samorzadnosc-0223z4mz4.pdf [acc.: 2 March 2024] – See the picture at the bottom.
Awards
In 1979, the authorities of the PRL – Polish People's Republic awarded Pietrzak with the Golden Cross of Merit.
On 3 May 2009 Pietrzak was decorated by the President of Poland with the Order of Polonia Restituta.{{Cite web|url=http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,570,prezydent-wreczyl-nominacje-generalskie-i-odznaczenia-panstwowe.html |title=Prezydent wręczył nominacje generalskie i odznaczenia państwowe |publisher=prezydent.pl |date=3 May 2009 |language=Polish |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925220514/http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art%2C570%2Cprezydent-wreczyl-nominacje-generalskie-i-odznaczenia-panstwowe.html |archivedate=25 September 2013 }}
See also
Notes
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External links
- [http://www.ipn.gov.pl/download.php?s=1&id=13374 "Prawda w żartach zawarta" ("The Truth as Humor").] Interview with Jan Pietrzak by Patrycja Gruszyńska-Ruman. PDF direct download. Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance, no. 7 (90), July 2008; ISSN 1641-9561. Retrieved 14 June 2012. {{in lang|pl}}
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