Time Imperfect

Bronislaw Wildstein (born in 1952), writer, journalist, currently a columnist for Rzeczpospolita and the weekly Uwazam Rze. He graduated in Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In the 1970’s he was an anti-communist opposition activist. He was the co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee in Krakow (1977). In 1980 he participated in the founding of Solidarity and the NZS in Krakow. Martial law found him in the West. He was the Co-founder and in 1982-87 editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine, Contact, published in Paris. He published in the emigration and underground press. He was the Paris correspondent RWE: 1987-90. At the beginning of 1990 he returned to Poland, where he performed the functions of, among others, director of Radio Krakow; edited “Zycie Warszawy "; deputy editor-in-chief "Life"; president of TVP; journalist of "Rzeczpospolita" and weekly "Wprost" and many other periodicals. He has worked in broadcast radio and television. He was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.