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Wilhelm Mach, pen names il., Quidam, s., S., Współpracownik (26 December 1916, Kamionka – 2 June 1965 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, essayist, poet and literary critic.
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Wilhelm Mach, pen names il., Quidam, s., S., Współpracownik (26 December 1916, Kamionka – 2 June 1965 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, essayist, poet and literary critic.
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Life He was born in Kamionka near Ropczyce in a peasant family to Wincenty Mach and Apolonia née Białek. He attended a school in Kamionka, and then continued education in Ropczyce, from 1928 in a private school – Miejskie Staroklasyczne Koedukacyjne Gimnazjum in Ropczyce. He debuted with a poem Jesień (Autumn) printed in a school press Przyszłość (Future, issue from 1 September 1928) and a novella Dawne zapusty published in a timely Rola. He continued his education from 1932 at the Władysław Jagiełło Gimnazjum in Dębica, where he edited the school magazine U nas. He graduated from secondary school diploma in 1936. In 1938 he graduated from the State Pedagogium in Krakow. After completing a one-year military service in September 1939, he graduated from the Infantry Cadet School. He fought during the invasion of Poland in the 6th Infantry Division of the Kraków Army. He took part in the battles of Pszczyna and Tomaszów Lubelski. During the occupation, he lived with his sister Bronisława in the Księżomost part of Sędziszów Małopolski, and then from 1941 in Kraków, where he worked at the Social Insurance Institution (Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna). In Krakow, he was active in the underground, teaching high school students in…
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Private life The Polish literary circles were widely aware of Mach's homosexuality, but did not speak of it for over 20 years after his death. Nowakowski would later describe how Mach shared the fate of many Polish gay men of the period, having to hide in the closet and live a double life, looking for relationships in shady surroundings such as train stations. In 1976, after a publication of Kalendarz i klepsydra by Tadeusz Konwicki, Mach's sister threatened to sue the author, who called his friend Mach an "auntie" in the book, for defamation. She didn't file the charges, but the mention of Mach disappeared from the later editions.
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Others Doświadczenia i przypadki. Opowiadania, eseje, reportaże i felietony. 1945–1953, Czytelnik 1954 Szkice literackie, Czytelnik 1971
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Memorials In 1968–1981 Polish Writers' Union awarded Wilhelm Mach Prize for novel debuts. In 1966 a new primary school in his homeplace of Kamionka was named after Wilhelm Mach, and in the building of Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Dębica a plaque commemorating Wilhelm Mach was established. In Gorlice, Villa Szklarczykówka was called the House of Remembrance of Wilhelm Mach. During the occupation, this house was the seat of the Gorlice Gestapo.
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Bibliography Fiut, Aleksander (1977). Dowód nietożsamości. Proza Wilhelma Macha. Ossolineum.