Dawid Jung


Dawid Jung is a Polish opera singer, poet, writer, literary and theater critic, publisher, cultural researcher, historian, museum curator, director of the Museum of Polish Electronic Organs, and editor-in-chief of "Zeszyty Poetyckie".
Between 2003 and 2005, he conducted classes on contemporary poetics for students at Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense, where he was a legal guardian for the Literary-Philosophical Section named after Władysław Nehring. From 2000 to 2006, he studied solo singing at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz under the guidance of Prof. Bożena Porzyńska, continuing his studies at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk from 2006 to 2008. He further pursued vocal arts in Vienna, performing roles including in Anton Ariensky's "Rafael," and in Rome, where he received a music scholarship.
In 2004, he initiated and re-established one of Gniezno's significant cultural events, the independent culture festival "Festa Fatuorum”.
In 2009, he was awarded the Juliusz Słowacki Medal for a fragment of "Poem of Speaking the Truth" by Marian Pankowski at the Ossolineum. He is coordinator of the academic symposium "Rzeczpospolita – mity a rzeczywistość. O poezji polskiej po 1989 roku" at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is also the chief editor of publishing series: Library of Contemporary Polish Poetry, Library of Old Polish Literature, and Historical Studies within "Zeszyty Poetyckie."
He is a member of the Bydgoszcz Scientific Society, the Association of Polish Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich.
He is the originator and founder of the Museum of Polish Electronic Organs, possessing the world's largest collection of Polish electronic keyboard instruments.
Since January 2023, he has served as the Vice President of the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich in Poznań.

Selected bibliography

Poetry collections

Prose collections

  • 2017: Glosy; Gniezno: Konfraternia Teatralna
  • 2017: Polska, ulubiona masochistka Europy ; Gniezno: Konfraternia Teatralna

History of Literature

  • 2012: Wierszopisowie Kłecka w latach 1590–1623. Przyczynki do historii kultury staropolskiej ; Old Polish Library, epilogue: Karol Samsel, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw
  • 2014: Gdańskie hymny Jakuba Gembickiego ; Gdańsk
  • 2018: Legendy królewskiego miasta. Z przekazów ustnych zebrał i opracował Dawid Jung ; Studia Kleccensia
  • 2020: Ostatni rybałci polszczyzny. Poeci ludowi XIX wieku związani z Ełkiem ; Ełk Cultural Center
  • 2020: To je wiôldżé. Antologia poetów kaszubskich okresu międzywojennego ; Gdańsk
  • 2021: Legendy zamku ełckiego ''; Ełk: The city office & Zeszyty Poetyckie
  • 2023: Szczecińskie legendy. Szlak kulturowy szczecińskich legend ; Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich

Translations of Jung's poetry into other languages

Awards