Jan Sztaudynger

Jan Sztaudynger

Jan Izydor Sztaudynger (28 April 1904 in Kraków - 12 September 1970 in Kraków) was a Polish poet and satirist. He enjoyed enormous popularity as a poet in Poland after the Second World War.

Sztaudynger studied Polish and German philology at the Jagiellonian University.

Sztaudynger was best known for his epigrams, which in Poland were called fraszka. Sztaudynger named some of his epigrams piórka".

Sztaudynger published in 1964 the poetry collection, Tranzytem przez Łódź (Transit through Łódź'), in which he expressed his nostalgia for Fraszka cafe in Łódź.

Sample fraszkas[]

Głos w telefonie
Halo - tu sumienie.
Czy pan zamówił budzenie?'

A voice on the phone
Hello, this is your conscience.
Did you order a wake-up call?

"Nie lubie"
Nie lubię siebie sam
za dobrze siebie znam

"Dislike"
Sometimes I don't like myself
I know my faults too well.

"Może zaszczytnie"
Łamią cie? Może zaszczytnie
Bez wtedy łamią, kiedy kwitnie

"Loud"
They shout very loud
Maybe the want to applaud.

”Skarga zmiętego”

Życie mnie,

Mnie.

See also[]

• Stanisław Jerzy Lec — contemporary writer of aphorisms

References[]

• Poet's Corner (1998): Jan Sztaudynger
• The City of Lodz Office: Jan Izydor Sztaudynger

External links[]

• Fraszki collection
• Photographs of Jan Sztaudynger^{[permanent dead link]}

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