Jan Pietrzak
Jan Pietrzak is a Polish satirist, singer-songwriter, stage and film actor, and columnist for Tygodnik Solidarność.Career
Pietrzak co-founded in Warsaw, with Jonasz Kofta, the student cabaret club Hybrydy, which operated in 1962–67.
In 1967 Pietrzak founded Pod Egidą, a subversive Warsaw literary cabaret. Pietrzak was one of the more popular voices of anticommunism in the People's Republic of Poland.
Pietrzak attained country-wide and international recognition during the Solidarity years especially with his protest song, "Żeby Polska była Polską" with music by Włodzimierz Korcz. The song became the widely-accepted informal anthem of Poland's Solidarity period.Awards
On 3 May 2009 Pietrzak was decorated by the President of Poland with the Order of Polonia Restituta.
