Samobójstwa artystów i sposób ich prezentacji na łamach przedwojennej prasy
Suicides of artists and their portrayal in Polish press before WWII

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the ways Polish press of the 1920s and 1930s used to write about suicides of artists. The author analyses the stories of suicidal deaths of five people: theatre actress Alojza Żółkowska, actor and director Józef Poremba-Jaracz, an aspiring painter Helena Niemczewska (the daughter of the watercolourist Julian Fałat), film hear􏰺hrob Zbigniew Staniewicz, and theatre actor Sergiusz Niłus (Jerzy Alan). These instances demonstrate that pre-war journalists took a keen interest in the issue, especially the reasons behind the tragedies. Detailed descriptions of the course of events o􏰹en revealed many details of the stars’ private lives, especially their health-related conditions.

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