19–20 July 1929, Friday–Saturday

Zakopane. Bruno Schulz comes to Zakopane with Zygmunt Hoffman and Juliusz Schloss.

Schulz spends his vacation in Zakopane. He is accompanied by his nineteen-year-old nephew Zygmunt and cousin Juliusz Schloss. They all stay at the Piast guesthouse1. Juliusz is also one of Zygmunt’s friends, next to Edmund Löwenthal and Leon Horoszkowski. “The boys would meet, Julek would come often and take part in games and activities on the porch”[[2].

Perhaps it is this summer that Schulz visits Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz*, and gets to know Debora Vogel3. The writer comes to Zakopane on 7 or 8 August 19294. Witkiewicz briefly notes her visits in letters to his wife5.

See also: 21 May 1910*, 13 July 1935*, 24 July 1935*, 25 July 1935*, 14 August 1935*. (ts) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    “Zakopane. Organ Związku Przyjaciół Zakopanego z listą gości”, 27 July 1929, no. 16, p. 7–8.
  • 2
    Memoir of Edmund Löwenthal (Lewandowski) attached to a letter to Jerzy Ficowski from April 1981.
  • 3
    Most researchers point to the year 1930, without mentioning the sources, cf. Jerzy Ficowski, Regiony wielkiej herezji i okolice. Bruno Schulz i jego mitologia, Sejny 2002, pp. 59 and 227; Kronika życia i twórczości Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza edited by Janusz Degler, Anna Micińska, Stefan Okołowicz, Tomasz Pawlak, Warsaw 2017, p. 419. In her memoirs, Rachela Auerbach mentions 1930 or 1931, see Rachela Auerbach, Niedosnute nicie. Garść wspomnień: zebrane wiadomości o życiu i twórczości Debory Vogel i Brunona Szulca oraz ich zagładzie z rąk niemieckich.
  • 4
    “Zakopane. Organ Związku Przyjaciół Zakopanego z listą gości”, 17 August 1929, no. 20/21, p. 8.
  • 5
    “Huge mayhem. Debora (I’m going to dinner tomorrow to Mogol)”, “Debora is dull” – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Listy do żony (1928–1931), prepared for printing by Anna Micińska, edited and annotated by Janusz Degler, Warsaw 2007, letter no. 382 and 383, p. 138–139.