Pomnik Romana Brandstaettera Tarnów

Statue of Roman Brandstaetter, Tarnów

Monuments

Pomnik z brązu mężczyzny bokiem, w berecie i okularach oraz z trzymającego w prawej ręce fajkę, opartego o ścianę. Na lewej stronie płaszcza ma wyryty tekst wiersza. Po lewej brukowana ulica, fragment chodnika i ściany z cegły.

ul. Wałowa 29, 33-100 Tarnów Tourist region: Tarnów i okolice

In the old town, on the corner of a tenement at 29 Wałowa Street, stands a cast-bronze statue of a fascinating man leaning against the tenement wall. He is the eminent Tarnów poet Roman Brandstaetter, writer, author of numerous books, poems and theatre dramas, doctor of philosophy, expert on the Bible, and translator of biblical treatises.

Roman Brandstaetter was born in Tarnów in 1906 and died in Poznań in 1987. He came from a thoroughly urbanised Jewish family among whose members were a number of distinguished litterateurs. His grandfather, Mordechaj Dawid Brandstaetter, was a founder of Hebrew-language literature. Roman Brandstaetter travelled a lot, but he never forgot his hometown. City residents immortalised the memory of the prominent Tarnów resident. On the corner of Wałowa and Rybna Streets, a sculpture of a man stood in the pose most associated with Brandstaetter in his lifetime – standing by a tenement house smoking a pipe, wearing his characteristic beret and coat with an engraved fragment of the poem, ‘Song of God's Clocks’. The approximately two-metre-tall bronze monument designed by Tarnów-based artist Jacek Kucaba, was unveiled in 2008. It stands in a symbolic place where the conventional border between Polish and Jewish Tarnów ran before the Second World War.