Photograph by Nickt01, retrieved from Wikimedia Commons (accessed: September 16, 2022).
Bohdan Korewicki
, 1902 - 1975
Born January 2, 1902 in Nasiekówka in Podolia (south–eastern Poland until WW2, then USSR, and now Ukraine); died January 8, 1975 in Warsaw. Between 1921 and 1924 studied at the Wojciech Gerson School of Drawing, graduating in 1926. In addition to painting he studied singing under Tadeusz Leliwa and Umberto Macner, instrumentation and harmony under Ludomir Różycki. In 1925/1926 he was a soloist at the Opera of the United Pomeranian Theatres Bydgoszcz–Toruń–Grudziądz. He performed for example a solo part in Stanisław Moniuszko’s Straszny Dwór [The Haunted Manor]. His paintings were exhibited at the Zachęta Gallery (Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts) in Warsaw between 1933 and 1937. During the German occupation of Poland he worked in the resistance and after the Warsaw Uprising was captured and deported to Germany, to the Braunschweig labour camp. There he organized shows of drawings and lead an amateur theatre troupe. He returned to Poland in 1946; between 1947 and 1948 he worked at the still functioning (until 1948) Ludowy Instytut Oświaty i Kultury [People’s Institute of Education and Culture], in Warsaw. In 1948 he worked for the Propaganda Division of the Polish Red Cross and later he sang for the Polish Radio and in the choir of the Warsaw Philharmonic. He also dabbled in photography and belonged to the Warsaw Photographic Association. He wrote two science fiction books: a two–volume novel Przez ocean czasu [Through the Ocean of Time], 1957, and Jej perypetie. Powieść trochę niesamowita [Her Adventures. A Somewhat Incredible Novel], 1958.
Source:
"Bohdan Korewicki", in Andrzej Niewiadomski and Antoni Smuszkiewicz, Leksykon polskiej literatury fantastycznonaukowej, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1990, 111–112.
Bio prepared by Helena Płotek, University of Warsaw, helenaplotek@student.uw.edu.pl
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