Wojenny SchulzFest w Drohobyczu – wspomnienia zamiast wprowadzenia
Wartime SchulzFest in Drohobych – Reminiscences Instead of an Introduction

Summary/Abstract: An account about the X. International Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobych, held on 2–17 July 2022, i.e. during wartime. The inauguration took place upon the occasion of 130th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Schulz, with the most prominent Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan reading an essay written for this occasion, while translators and scholars from assorted countries participated online. Referring to the contexts of the oeuvre and biography of the author of Republika marzeń, confronted with wartime reality, the director of SchulzFest presented the most significant events of the previous, anniversary Festival, such as reading poems in shelters, the Nikita Kadan installation in Schulz’s home in former Floriańska Street, a performance given by Włodko Kaufman in Bianka’s villa, a meeting with Andrzej Stasiuk, a staging of Schulz’s spectacle “Universum” by actors from assorted Ukrainian towns, a documentary spectacle: “Grown Up Children”, involving teenagers resettled to Drohobych from locations most affected by the war, and auteur musical projects by Ukrainian poets Hryhoriy Semenchuk and Anton Slepakov, co-organisers and partners of the wartime SchulzFest in Drohobych.

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