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Kalendarze wydawane w oficynie Bronisława Koraszewskiego

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The outline presented here is devoted in its main part to the analysis of the „Gazeta Opolska” calendars which were published in Opole in the years 1896, 1898, 1900—1914. Besides the first issue, they were called only once Opolanin (in 1898) and since 1900 consequently Staropolanin. The authoress has placed them among the context of the Upper-Silesian people’s book calendars. She discussed their basic determinants, among others: volume, edition, price, editorial get-up and, first of all, their thematic and specific content as well as the tasks which they were to fulfil. Their main task was to give the readers a general knowledge and a knowledge of the Polish nation aiming at awaking patriotic feelings among the inhabitants of Opole region as well as giving them some entertainment. The calendars contained regular columns of information and not too large part of general character — literary and educational. Their scheme, then, was consistent with compositional principles of the editorial and reading type to which, as we have mentioned above, they belonged. In the general part the editor of those calendars, Bronislaw Koraszewski, completing succeeding numbers of the calendars confined himself almost entirely to the texts by Polish authors writing about national problems. In order to get as many readers as possible he suited the artistic level and the content of the calendars to the mentality of local people. Therefore, we should number them among valuable Upper-Silesian book publications. The Calendars of the „Gazeta Opolska” were to be continued under a new title „Illustrated Home Calendar” („Ilustrowany Kalendarz Domowy”) prepared in Koraszewski’s printing house in Opole in the years 1915—1916. Unfortunately, it was an enterprise of short duration. In the end,the authoress informed that in the years 1913—1915 another calendar called „The Calendar of News” („Kalendarz Nowin”) had been published. It was edited by Franciszek Kurpierz — a successive editor (Polish) who was acting in Opole at that time. There were not other Polish people’s calendars in Opole region during its national slavery.