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Brother Trump. US President Donald Trump has demonstrated how quickly democratic politics can be overtaken by intimidation and cruelty. As Thomas Mann argued in the early 20th century, authoritarians gain power because they activate dispositions that already exist within democratic societies.

Esej w World Literature Today

Agnieszka Holland’s Complicated Kafka. A writer and musician from Gdańsk, Poland, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski collaborated on Franz with Agnieszka Holland, a filmmaker who in the dark times of the Communist regime left Poland for Prague out of love for Kafka. Kwiatkowski considers the film’s universal relevance as democracy is attacked and finds a film ultimately as enigmatic as Kafka himself.

Esej w Guardianie

To show the next generation the horrors of the past, we need to learn from David Lynch. How best to portray the evil of Stutthof camp witnessed by my grandfather? The Zone of Interest and Twin Peaks could have the answer.

What is it to unearth the forgotten? – esej o twórczości Grzegorza Kwiatkowskiego

„The idea of not being forgotten – is very important to me. Not the most important, but important. Something like: I lived, I existed, I also felt, remember me. And by implication and with an addition from me: try to live better so that crimes do not happen as they did during the Second World War.”

-Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

This Ain’t Rock 'n’ Roll

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, jego antyfaszystowskie działania oraz zespół Trupa Trupa są jednymi z bohaterów książki Daniela Rachela „This Ain’t Rock 'n’ Roll”. Historia Grzegorza i zespołu zamyka tę mroczną książkę, która robi furorę – właśnie trafiła na okładkę brytyjskiego „Timesa”, a znakomite omówienia ukazały się także w Mojo, The Irish Times, Metro i Daily Mail.