Dawid Jung

Dawid Jung
Born
Kłecko, Poland
NationalityPolish
Occupation(s)Writer, translator, editor

Dawid Jung (born 1980) is a Polish opera singer, poet, writer, literary and theater critic, publisher, cultural researcher, historian, museum curator, director of the Museum of Polish Electronic Organs,[1] and editor-in-chief of "Zeszyty Poetyckie".[2]

Between 2003 and 2005, he conducted classes on contemporary poetics for students at Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), where he was a legal guardian for the Literary-Philosophical Section named after Władysław Nehring. From 2000 to 2006, he studied solo singing at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz under the guidance of Prof. Bożena Porzyńska, continuing his studies at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk from 2006 to 2008. He further pursued vocal arts in Vienna, performing roles including in Anton Ariensky's "Rafael," and in Rome, where he received a music scholarship.[3]

In 2004, he initiated and re-established one of Gniezno's significant cultural events, the independent culture festival "Festa Fatuorum” (Feast of Fools).[4]

In 2009, he was awarded the Juliusz Słowacki Medal for a fragment of "Poem of Speaking the Truth" by Marian Pankowski at the Ossolineum. He is coordinator of the academic symposium "Rzeczpospolita – mity a rzeczywistość. O poezji polskiej po 1989 roku" (Republic – myths and reality. On Polish poetry after 1989) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is also the chief editor of publishing series: Library of Contemporary Polish Poetry, Library of Old Polish Literature, and Historical Studies within "Zeszyty Poetyckie." He is a member of the Bydgoszcz Scientific Society, the Association of Polish Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich.[5]

He is the originator and founder of the Museum of Polish Electronic Organs, possessing the world's largest collection of Polish electronic keyboard instruments.[6]

Since January 2023, he has served as the Vice President of the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich in Poznań.[7]

  1. ^ "Polish Radio".
  2. ^ "Editor-in-chief of "Zeszyty Poetyckie"".
  3. ^ "Interview in the newspaper "Polska The Times - Glos Wielkopolski""".
  4. ^ Miazak, Monika (2003). Ponad granicami. Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense 2000-2003 (Above the Divisions. Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense 2000-2003), Gniezno: Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense, p. 71. ISBN 8391877892
  5. ^ "Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich".
  6. ^ "Kolekcja, która nieźle brzmi".
  7. ^ "Vice President of the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich in Poznań".