Piotr
Wójcicki

Piotr Wójcicki was born in 1949 in Warsaw. He graduated the Nicolaus Copernicus High School in Warsaw, a UNESCO-affiliated educational establishment with English as the teaching medium. Piotr studied at the Central School of Planning and Statistics (today: Warsaw School of Economics) (1967-1971) and at the Department of Law and Administration of Warsaw University, graduating the latter in 1975. In 1977-1980 he did a research project on late medieval culture at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the academic guidance of Professor Bronisław Geremek. In 1982-1983 he continued research work on a scholarship from the underground Solidarity trade union. In 1981 he was on the staff of the Social Research Centre of the Mazowsze Chapter of Solidarity and of the Solidarność weekly. Following the proclamation of martial law he ttook a job with a monthly Pomoc Społeczna and thereafter he worked as journalist for the Powściągliwość i Praca monthly (1989-1990) and contributed reviews to a bi-weekly Świat I Książka. In 1990 Piotr Wójcickhe co-founded a publishing house Dom Wydawniczy Dominus and took over as its chief editor. A year later he set up his own consulting firm and became a receiver in bankruptcy. In 1992 he published his book Sprawdź, czy jesteś właścicielem [Check Your Ownership Title]. In 1995 he was the secretary and a journalist of a local monthly Kocham Pragę. In 1996-1999 he was a freelance contributor and, later, a staff member of Gazeta Prawna and a journalist of Dziennik Prawa i Gospodarki. Since 2000 he has been a free agent. He has cooperated with an English-language monthly What’s up in Warsaw covering galleries, exhibitions, photography events and creative efforts of young artists. Piotr invented and developed a cartoon character Janek Nuda [Jack Boredom] who featured in a Twożywo Group serial Kapitan Europa [Captain Europe] in an episode Rozkaz [Yes, sir.]