Fryderyk Awards Granted

16 [513] WEEK 16 17/04/08 – 23/04/08 Cultural Bulletin Fryderyk awards granted n Gabriela Zapolska’s „Season Love” (Sezonowa miłośc) gas been pro- e Hey band and its singer Katarzyna Nosowska won eight moted in Germany for the fi rst time Fryderyk 2008 awards. e One, Two, ree (Raz, Dwa, Trzy) in the form totally translated in Ger- band won two statutes, at a gala ceremony of the Polish light man, made by Karin Wolff specialis- music in Warsaw’s Fabryka Trzciny art centre on April 8. ing in the translation of the Polish Hey and Nosowska won a total of 14 nominations to the award. literature in Germany. e Hey disc “MTV Unplugged” won the award for the rock/ n Bjoern Reinhardt’s „Obcina” (Other Worlds), a visually magnifi - metal disc of the year. e same publishing house granted the cent evocation of shepherd life in the award to Leszek Kamiński and Wojtek Łopaciuk for the best high Carpathian pastures by a young music production of the year and Piotr Bujanowski received the Romanian amateur fi lmmaker won award for the best design/musical setting. the Grand Prix for the feature mo- Fryderyk for Katarzyna Nosowska went for the best author vies of the 9th International „Rozsta- of soloist of the year. Her “UniSexiBlues”disc was named the je Europy International Documenta- best album of the year in the category of alternative music. ry Film Festival in Lublin Lublinie. Reports e singer thanked disc producer Marcin Macukow for mod- e festival that ended on April 6 presented movies centred on co- in brief News estly addend that „she would do anything without cooperation habitation, transfer of cultures and with so talented people.” problems of cutlrual and national e song from the fl atter disc entitled “Era Retuszera” was identity stemming from history and named the best song of the year and the best video clip resulting from social and political of the year (director Anna Maliszewska). Other nominees changes as well as armed confl icts. included Feel, Hey, songs of Natalia Kukulska and Maleńczuka n e 1st Polish Film Festival in & Waglewskiego. Moscow entitled “Wisła,” held between April 14-20 featured 16Polish e Raz, Dwa, Trzy band was the best band of the year out- movies including the Academy distancing Feel, Hey, Myslovitz and Pogodno. It also received Award winner Polish-Bitish produc- the statuette for “Młynarski” disc as the best pop music disc. tion “Peter and the Wolf” (Piotruś Nominations in the same category went to Anna Maria Jopek i wilk, directed by Suzie Templeton), and her disc “Id” and Maleńczuk & Waglewski “Colleagues.” “Jasminum” by Jan Jakub Kolski, (Koledzy). “ ank you for noticing us on the musical scene. “Debr Collector” (Komornik) by Fe- We also would like to thank Wojciech Młynarski for his songs liks Falk, “Our Saviour Square” (Plac Zbawiciela) by Krzysztof Krauze and and you for listening to them,” said Adam Nowak, the leader Joanna Kos-Krauze and “Warsaw” of Raz, Dwa, Trzy band. (Warszawa) by Dariusz Gajewski. Aga Zaryan won the awared in the category of the “Album of n “Jag i forsta och sista person” - the Year – e Poetica Song” and for the disc entitled “Dying (Ja w pierwszej i ostatniej osobie) © PAP The bulletin has been compiled from PAP own service Cultural Bulletin WEEK 16 17/04/08 – 23/04/08 Beauty” (Umiera piękno). In this category nominations is the title of the antology of the were also granted for “Another Fairtale” (Inna bajka) by Polish poetry published in Stock- holm on Wednesay. e title is the Michał Bajor and “Coincidences” (Przypadki) by Ka- quotation from a poem ny Kry- tarzyna Groniec. “HollyŁódź” O.S.T.R. for named the styna Miłobędzka. e antology best hip-hop disc. under the subtitle “20 Polish Poets” Voo Voo band leader Wojciech Waglewski won Fryderyk (20 polskich poetek) includes po- 2008 for the „Composer of the Year.” On his behalf the etry by Julia Hartwig, Marzanna award was received by his manager. His rivals for the Kielar, Urszula Kozioł, Maria Paw- award were Lipali, Katarzyna Nosowska, Marcin Macuk likowska-Jasnorzewska, Halina Poświatowska, Anna Świrszczyńska and Mateusz Pospieszalski. and Agnieszka Wolny-Hamałko. Zajopower’s disc “At Seven” (Na siedem ) was n Poznań that aspires to the title grantem Fryderyk for the best etno/folk album. “I did of the European Culture Capital not expected this award. (...) „We feel as we are growing 2016 plans to set up three aspi- wings,” band singer Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka. ration-oriented institutions and Tomasz Lipnicki was the best singer of the year outdo- working teams for achieving the ing Piotra Kupicha, Maciej Maleńczuk, Adam Nowak and goal. e tender for the strategy Wojciech Waglewski. was won by Iker company. Poznań: Hoff mann’s “Aurora” to open 8th Hoff mann Festival e premiere of Ernst eodor Amadeus Hoff mann en- Reports titled “Aurora opened the Hoff amann Festival in Poznań on April 5. e premiere was the world’s fi rst stage per- in brief News formance of the opera. e Polish-German opera festival, held the Grand eatre in Poznań for the eighth time is organised with cooperation of the Bar of the two countries. Apart from Hoff mann’s operas the opera lov- ers will have the opportunity to listen, by April 27, to the music by world’s best opera creators and take part in workshops devoted to the life and art of Ernest eodor Amadeus Hoff mann. France: reorganisation of Polish institute in Paris arouses controversy Representatives of Polish community in France pro- test against the reorganization of the Polish Institute in Paris which, as they put it, will actually liquidate the institute. PAP has learnt that thorough changes started in the institute to transform it into a promotion and culture events management company. Beata Podgórska, Cultural Bulletin WEEK 16 17/04/08 – 23/04/08 n Director Filip Bajon will the institute director fl atly denied plans to liquidate the make into a movie Aleksander institute though the fact is that no cultural events were Fredro’s “Maiden’;s Vows or the held since March and no Polish language classes will be Magnetism of Hearts. Casting organized as of October 2008. e institute library is for the actors will start in May, under liquidation and its collection is to be transferred Movie producer Krzysztof to other locations, namely talks are underway with the Dużyński has told PAP. Accord- Polish Library at St. Luis Island, the Sorbona Library and ing to Bajon the fi lm will be a romantic comedy based on the National Library of France. the Polish literary tradition and an attempt to fi nd a contem- France: Paris holds review of short subject porary meaning of this beauti- movies from Lodź ful play to “discover in it paths “Signes de nuit,” the 6th international short subject fi lm of modern psychology and festival in Paris on April 4 featured eight shot movies erotics.” Dużyński told PAP the made in the Lodź Film School (PWSFTviT). movies will be set in modern During a night show of short subject and documentary Times because „we want very movies from 40 countries were presented with the Lódź much Fredro’s world to see itself mirrored in out reality and vice Film School being the guest of honour and as such pre- versa, the producer said. sented a selection of movies show between 1986 and n A Polish pavilion in being 2006. Among them was „Krakatau,” a short movie by constructed in Spanish Saragossa Mariusz Grzegorzka (1986), the well-known pictured of for Expo 2008, to focus on wa- complicates Inter-personal relations shot in the expres- ter and sustainable development Reports sionist stule and show in “L’Archipel” movie theatre. and to last from mid-June to mid-September. Like Expo 2010 envisages PAP Retrospective show of Kieślowski’s movies in Shanghai, Expo 2008 in Sara- in Israel gossa is the world’s biggest event promoting Polish economy, tour- A retrospective show of 30 Kieślowski’s movies opened ism and culture. e Polish exhi- in Israel on April 6. More than 30 fi lm from the series bition is prepared by the Polish “ e Decalogue” and “ e ree Colours” as well as Agency for Enterprise Develop- “Amateur,” e Double Vie of Veronique” student’s short ment (PARP) at the commission subject and documentary movies be on Jerusalem, Haifa of the economy ministry. Accord- and Tel Aviv until May 15. ing to organizers the exhibition will be held under the leitmotif “a fascinating story about a coun- try of people able to link tradition and creativity with care for culture and national heritage. “ e Polish 100-square meter pavilion will be one of the biggest at Expo 2008. Its façade recalls salt graduation towers and the interior to a modern yacht. 3.

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