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Zdzisław Nardelli

Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
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The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw

In his role as a radio director, writer and poet, Zdzisław (Rudolf) Nardelli was a leading cultural personality in Poland after the end of the Second World War. He was born on 18. October 1913 into an Italian merchant family that had settled in Cieszyn in the 18th century. 

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  • His debut as poet, Warsaw 1938 - „Świt na nowo” [Daybreak Anew], tomik poezji [volume of poetry], editor, F. Hoesick. Warsaw 1938, and poem entitled “Wyjazd” [Departure].
  • Stalag VIII C in Sagan - A reprint from the file in the Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich [POW Camp Museum].
  • „Szopka Sagańska” [Sagan Nativity Play] - „Uwaga! Sagan wrze…” [Beware! Things are simmering in Sagan...] (Title page), A Nativity Play for the New Year, presented by Polish prisoners in Sagan (1939) and Görlitz (1940).
  • „Szopka Sagańska” - “Oczko we mgle…” [A Tiny Eye in the Fog], page with the censor’s triangular seal and the word “checked”, in Stalag VIII C in Sagan.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli, Caricature, 1939 - A caricature of Zdzisław Nardellis in: “Szopka Sagańskiej” [Sagan Nativity Play], completed in Stalag VIII C in Sagan, winter 1939.
  • Stalag VIII A in Görlitz - Stalag VIII A in Görlitz, a view of the barracks. (Série 4. Edit. Phototypia Légia, Liége).
  • Olivier Messiaen in soldier’s uniform, Metz 1939/40 - Olivier Messiaen during a campaign in the east of France, Metz 1939/40.
  • “Wieczór polski” [Polish Evening] in Görlitz, mid-December 1940 - Cover of the programme of the Polish Evening, put together by Bohdan Samulski, Stalag VIII A in Görlitz, mid-December 1940.
  • “Wieczór polski” [Polish Evening] in Görlitz, mid-December 1940 - Cover of the programme of the Polish Evening, put together by Bohdan Samulski, Stalag VIII A in Görlitz, with the seal of the camp censor, “checked”, mid-December 1940.
  • Ensign Czesław Mętrak, a portrait by Bohdan Samulski, December 1940 - Ensign Czesław Mętrak, co-promoter of “Wieczór polski” [Polish Evening]. After fleeing from prison he succeeded in returning to Poland and served as a second lieutenant “Duch” in the Home Army.
  • Ensign Bohdan Samulski, 1941 - Co-promoter of “Wieczór polski” [Polish Evening]. After fleeing from prison he became an officer in the 1. Tank Division of General Stanisław Maczek, and was awarded the order Virtuti Militari.
  • Minutes of the Gestapo arrest - The minutes of the arrest and imprisonment of Zdzisław Nardelli by the Gestapo, from 6. June to 14. September 1944 in the prison in Brauweiler.
  • Newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt - A newsletter of the Polish Centre in Erfurt describing the work of Zdzisław Nardelli as the head of the Arts Office, May 1945.
  • The staff of the Arts Office in Erfurt - A list of the staff in the Arts Office. Zdzisław Nardelli took over as head in May 1945.
  • The sole existing film roll - Zdzisław Nardelli in the film by Antoni Bohdziewicz “Za wami pójdą inni…” [Others will be following you], 1949.
  • Olivier Messiaen 1969 - Portrait of Olivier Messiaens. Fot. Inghi, Paris.
  • Certificate of the International Red Cross, Geneva 1971 - Certificate of the International Red Cross in Geneva, issued in 1971.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli at Polish Radio - Zdzisław Nardelli by the wall of his office containing the autographs of the creative radio workers in the Polish Radio station in Warsaw.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli, Writer - Zdzisław Nardelli – Novelist, after leaving Polish Radio.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli “Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland] - Zdzisław Nardelli “Pasztet z ojczyzny” [A Pie from the Homeland], Wyd. “Śląsk”, Katowice 1986, okładka.
  • Zdzisław Nardelli „Otchłań ptaków” - Zdzisław Nardelli “Otchłań ptaków”, Verlag “Śląsk”, Katowice 1989, cover.
  • Dedication written Zdzisław Nardelli - A dedication written by Zdzisław Nardelli for Jerzy Stankiewicz in a copy of “Otchłań ptaków” The Birds’ Hell], Warsaw, 27. March 2002.
  • “Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante] - Zdzisław Nardelli “Płaskorzeźby dyletanta” [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante], Wyd. Radia i Telewizji [Radio and TV publisher], Warsaw 1988, cover by Zdzisław Nardelli.
  • The catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw - Catacombs with the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli in the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.
  • Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli - Memorial plaque at the grave of Zdzisław Nardelli in the catacombs of the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw.

Zdzisław Nardelli

Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
©
The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw

Bibliography:
 

Zdzisław Nardelli, Świt na nowo [Daybreak Anew]. Tomik poezji [volume of poetry], Warsaw 1938.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Kawiarnia plastyków [The Café of Painters], in: Cyganeria i polityka. Wspomnienia krakowskie 1919-1939 [Bohemia and politics. Memories from Kraków 1919-1939], Warsaw 1969.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Proza nasycona poezją [Prose saturated with poetry], introduction to: Jerzy Janicki, Kłaniaj się drzewom [I bow before the trees], Warsaw 1973.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Pasztet z ojczyzny [A Pie from the Homeland], Katowice 1985.

Zdzisław Nardelli, Płaskorzeźby dyletanta [The Bas-Relief of a Dilettante]. Warsaw 1988.

Zdzisław. Nardelli, Otchłań ptaków [The Birds’ Hell], Katowice 1989.

Anne Bongrain (ed.), Messiaen au Conservatoire, Paris 2008.

Myriam Chimènes (ed.), La Vie musicale sous Vichy, Brussels 2004.

Antoine Goléa, Rencontres avec Olivier Messiaen, Paris 1961.

Peter Hill, Nigel Simeone, Olivier Messiaen, Paris 2008.

Tadeusz Kaczyński, Messiaen, Kraków 1984.

Hannelore Lauerwald, In Fremdem Land, Görlitz 1997.

Hannelore Lauerwald, Primum vivere. Zuerst leben. Wie Gefangene das Stalag VIII A in Görlitz erlebten. Dokumentation auf Grundlage mündlicher and schriftlicher Quellen ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener aus Frankreich, Belgien and Italien, Bautzen 2009.

Anthony Pople, Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, Cambridge 1998.

Rebecca Rischin, Et Messiaen composa…, Paris 2006.

Almut Rössler, Beiträge zur geistigen Welt Olivier Messiaens, Duisburg 2008.

Claude Samuel, Permanences d’Olivier Messiaen, Arles 1999.

Thomas Daniel Schlee, Dietrich Kämper (oprac.), Olivier Messiaen. La Cité céleste – Das himmlische Jerusalem. Über Leben and Werk des französischen Komponisten, Cologne 1998.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, „Quatuor pour la fin du temps“ von Olivier Messiaen, w: Via Regia kontrovers — Dialog der Horizonte. Internationaler Workshop 2006 in der Europastadt Görlitz–Zgorzelec, hrsg. v. Peter Baumgardt, Gerhard Müller, Görlitz–Zgorzelec 2007.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Ile wykonań „Kwartetu na koniec Czasu” Oliviera Messiaena odbyło się w Stalagu VIII A w Görlitz? Nowe fakty i hipotezy 70 lat później [How often was the “Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen played in Stalag VIII A in Görlitz? New facts and hypotheses 70 years after], „Res Facta Nova”, (Poznań), Nr. 12 (2011).

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Composé et créé dans un camp nazi. Le secret de la naissance du ”Quatuor pour la fin du Temps” d’Olivier Messiaen , „Schweizer Musikzeitung”, (Zürich), Nr. 5 (2012).

Jerzy Stankiewicz, Olivier Messiaen na Śląsku, „Śląsk” [Olivier Messiaen in Silesia], (Katowice), Nr. 4 (2015).

Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, Idee twórcze Oliviera Messiaena [The Artistic Ideas of Olivier Messiaen], „Muzyka”, (Warsaw), Nr. 4 (1978).

Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, Medytacje muzyczne Oliviera Messiaena [Musical Meditations by Olivier Messiaen]. „Chrześcijanin a współczesność” [Christ and the Present Day] (Breslau), Nr. 4 (1989).

Roman Zgłobicki,  Życie kulturalne w obozie jeńców wojennych Stalagu VIII w Zgorzelcu [Cultural Live in the POW camp Stalag VIII in Görlitz]. „Rocznik Jeleniogórski” [Hirschberger Jahrbücher], vol. 18 (1980).

Roman Zgłobicki,  Hitlerowski obóz jeńców wojennych w Zgorzelcu Stalag VIII A  (Görlitz-Moys) i jego cmentarze [The National Socialist POW camp Stalag VIII A in Görlitz-Moys and its cemeteries], chapter in work: Ebd., Obozy i cmentarze wojenne w Zgorzelcu [War camps and cemeteries in Görlitz]. Zgorzelec 1995.

Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.
©
The private collection of Teodozja Nardelli, Warsaw
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