Zbigniew Raszewski - Life

Life

Shortly after his birth his family moved to Bydgoszcz, where he spent his childhood and youth. He wrote one of the best books on the town, and more broadly on Polish-German relations there, in the form of Pamiętnik gapia. Bydgoszcz, jaką pamiętam z lat 1930-1945 Wyd. Pomorze Bydgoszcz., a compendium of memoirs.

In 1945 - 1949, he studied Polish at the University of Poznan, later becoming an assistant at the university. He moved to Warsaw and was involved with the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as becoming a professor at the Warsaw Theater School in Zelwerowicza.


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