Cultural and Artistic Life of the Ukrainian Internee Soldiers of the Army in Strzałkowo Internment Camp (July 1921-August 1922) Cover Image

Życie kulturalne i artystyczne żołnierzy Ukraińskiej Armii Ludowej internowanych w obozie w Strzałkowie (lipiec 1921-sierpień 1922)
Cultural and Artistic Life of the Ukrainian Internee Soldiers of the Army in Strzałkowo Internment Camp (July 1921-August 1922)

Author(s): Ihor Sribniak
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: internee Ukrainian soldires; theatre; choir; orchestra; event; performance; Army; Strzałkowo; the internment camp

Summary/Abstract: In the submitted article not only the cultural but also artistic part of the daily life in internment camp was written. The everyday life of soldiers was also mantioned. The work describes the period from July 1921 to August 1922. It was the time when in the internment camp the dramatic groups was very active. The actos who take part in the theaters groups were the amateur artist. People were active in a waried field of study or art such as: the choir, the orchestra (string and wind instruments). Thanks to those artistic groups people in the internment camp had the chance and possibility to take part in theatre performances or choir concerts or the instrumental concerts too. Moreover theirs shared effort allow to organise in a regular way many artistic perfomances and events. The artistic events were the compilation of the wariety of arts sphere. The common effort of the cams artists, choir’s singers, musicans was the key to find a solution of the problems. That was the factor which significantly contributed to overcoming the dangerous tendency to degradation and dispersion of the interned Ukrainian Army.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: VIII
  • Page Range: 97-112
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish