Type magazine Editor Tomasz Niewiadomski | Owner(s) Przekrój Sp. z o.o. Headquarters Warsaw | |
Founded 1945; 72 years ago (1945) | ||
Przekrój ([ˈpʂɛkruj]; Cross-section) is the oldest Polish weekly newsmagazine in operation, established in 1945 in Kraków. After temporary closure in 2013, it has been bought by a photographer Tomasz Niewiadomski, and subsequently relaunched in December 2016 as a quarterly magazine.
History
Przekrój was created by the writer and graphic-artist Marian Eile-Kwaśniewski (1910–1984) from Warsaw who, until 1969, was also the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine. The magazine focused on current social, political and cultural events both Polish and International. In the 1970s Przekrój reached record circulation, with 700,000 copies per issue, by far, the most popular magazine in the country. As of 2011, it had a modest circulation of 73,000 copies.
The list of editors in chief in chronological order include: Marian Eile (1945–1969), Mieczysław Kieta (1969–1973), Mieczysław Czuma (1973–2000), Maciej Piotr Prus (2000–2001), Józef Lubiński (2001), Jacek Rakowiecki (2001–2002), Roman Kurkiewicz (2002), Piotr Najsztub (2002–2006), Mariusz Ziomecki (2006–2007), Jacek Kowalczyk (2007–2010), Katarzyna Janowska (2010–2011), Artur Rumianek (2011), Donat Szyller (2011), Roman Kurkiewicz (2012), Zuzanna Ziomecka, Marcin Prokop (2012-2013) and Tomasz Niewiadomski (from 2016).
Following a closure in 2013, Przekrój was out of print until December 2016, when it has been relaunched as a quarterly magazine deeply inspired by the early editions of the magazine from 1950s and 1960s.
Among the former contributors to Przekrój were such personalities of Polish literary scene as: Maria Dąbrowska, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jan Brzechwa, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Kazimierz Wyka, Daniel Mróz, Jerzy Waldorff, Sławomir Mrożek, Ludwik Jerzy Kern and Jan Błoński.