Jacek Hugo-Bader

Polish reporter and journalist

Jacek Aleksander Hugo-Bader (born 9 March 1957^[1] in Sochaczew) is a Polish journalist and journalist who mainly reports on matters related to Russia and former Soviet Republics. Since 1990 he has worked for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.

Life and career

He also used to work as a teacher, train loader, scale operator at a pig market, head of a distribution company, a part of the underground structure of Solidarity and a shopkeeper.

He travelled by bike through Central Asia, the Gobi Desert and China, and sailed through Lake Baikal in a canoe. In winter 2007 he made a lonely car journey from Moscow to Vladivostok which was the background of his first book White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia.

In 2011 he made a solitary hitchhike across Russia – from Magadan to Yakutsk. Reports describing encountered people's everyday lives were published in Gazeta Wyborcza during the journey and later gathered and released in the book Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland.^[2]

He is a two-time laureate of Polish prize for the best journalists - Grand Press (in 1999 and 2003). Most of his works are about Russia: "(...) he describes the imperium from prospect of loitering dog, grasps mechanisms of thinking, behaviour, processes and a rat by its tail it addition."^[3]

The journalist appeared in blackface at a Polish Independence Day celebration on November 11, 2016, as part of a reporting project on street reactions to a black person.^[4]

Books

White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia (pol. Biała gorączka) (2009)
(pol.) W rajskiej dolinie wśród zielska (2002)
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland (pol. Dzienniki kołymskie) (2011)
(pol.) Chłopcy z motylkami (2013)
(pol.) Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (2014)^[5]
(pol.) Skucha (2016) ^[6]

Films

Jacek Hugo-Bader. Korespondent z Polszy (2007)
Jak to się robi by Marcel Łoziński (2006)
Zamek - series Nasz spis powszechny (2002)
Ślad po meduzie (1998)^[7]

References

^ (in Polish) J. Hugo-Bader, Biała gorączka, Wołowiec 2009, pp. 13.
^ author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website, retrieved 13-08-2014
^ author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website, retrieved 13-08-2014
^ "Fact Check: A Jewish Journalist Did NOT Apply Blackface To Establish A Black Lives Matter Center In Poland | Lead Stories". leadstories.com. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
^ author's catalogue on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 13-08-2014
^ author's catalogue on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 07-01-2017
^ Jacek Hugo-Bader in database filmpolski.pl