Years active 1970s – present Name Janusz Weiss | Role Journalist Spouse Grazyna Weiss (m. ?–2005) | |
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Occupation Television/Radio personality Children Maksymilian Weiss, Jan Weiss | ||
Janusz weiss zwolniony z radia zet ja sie z tym nie zgadzam
Janusz Alfred Weiss (born 31 May 1948 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, television personality and co-founder of the one of the most popular radio stations in Poland, Radio ZET.
Contents
- Janusz weiss zwolniony z radia zet ja sie z tym nie zgadzam
- Pierwszy ogrod wspomnienia janusza weissa janusz weiss gosciem ddb radio zet
- Biography
- References
Pierwszy ogrod wspomnienia janusza weissa janusz weiss gosciem ddb radio zet
Biography
Weiss was born as a son of the colonel of the Internal Security Corps Oskar Weiss (of Jewish descent) and Janina Weiss (of Russian descent).
He was studying at the Warsaw University of Technology. In March 1968 he was expelled from the University for his Jewish heritage and activities during 1968 Polish political crisis. In 1970 Weiss started Polish studies at the University of Warsaw, but he had never finished them.
In the early 1970s he founded a cabaret group with Magda Umer, Krzysztof Knittel and Andrzej Wojciechowski. In the 1980s Janusz Weiss was performing in the Polish television as presenter and conferencier.
In 1990 he was one of three founders of the radio station Radio ZET. In the years 1990–2011 Weiss was presenting an audition Dzwonię do Pani, Pana w bardzo nietypowej sprawie (Dear Madam, dear Sir, I'm calling you on a most unusual matter), which was one of the most popular radio programming in Poland. In 2000 he published a book in London, Jeden może, drugi nie (One can, the other doesn't).
From 1993 to 2005 he was a host of game show called Miliard w rozumie, transmitted under license of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN on TVP1.
In 2011 he received the Order of Polonia Restituta.