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Wiadomości Literackie nr 52 December 3, 1933 published Ptaki - The Birds by Bronisław (Bruno) Schulz.
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The newspaper „Wiadomości Literackie” [Literary News], was created in 1924 by Mieczysław Grydzewski. It was one of the most influential, interwar social-cultural magazines. Co-workers of „Wiadomości Literackie” regarded Grydzewski, the editor-in-chief as a liberal despot. Liberal in terms of his political views and a despot at work. He would thoroughly correct received manuscripts disregarding protests of their authors. He edited on his own, in his flat at 8 Złota Street (flat number 5) in Warsaw serving him as an office. He owned this house and was renting one of his flats to Janusz Korczak and his sister Anna.
Among the best-known authors publishing in Wiadomości Literackie were: Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Ksawery Pruszyński, Antoni Sobański, Jan Lechoń, Karol Irzykowski, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Stefania Zahorska, Irena Krzywicka, Janusz Korczak and Bronisław-Bruno Schultz.
Ptaki - The Birds is a short, only four pages long story set in the house of Józef and his family. Józef decides to house a hundred exotic birds in one room of their home after becoming interested in ornithology. Later he decides to cross-breed them, creating new and more bizarre specimens, and also begins to become bird-like himself. But one day the cleaner comes and throws the birds out.
On November 19th, 1942, Bruno Schulz was murdered/shot by a Gestapo officer while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.
Bruno Schultz was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic, and art teacher. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel "The Messiah".
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| Wiadomości Literackie were edited Grydzewski flat at 8 Złota Street (flat number 5) in Warsaw. He owned this house and was renting one of his flats, number 4, to Janusz Korczak and his sister Anna. |
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| Korczak Wiadomości Literackie, October 8, 1933. |
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This famous photo of Bruno Shulz in his Carpentry Class in Drohobycz - well one of our (few) 1st Generation survivors just recognized himself. Young Hesio Heilig is in the far left corner.
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Korczak Wiadomości Literackie Senat Szalenców nr 41 October 11, 1931.
