Fedorowicz was born in pre-warGdynia, Poland to a family of Varsovians. His parents worked for the newly developed Polish maritime economy. As a 7-year-old boy he survived the Warsaw Uprising. In 1960 graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Career
Fedorowicz was one of the founders of the student theatre in Gdańsk named Bim-Bom. He also belonged to the acting company of the theatre. During his studies he began his collaboration with a radio station in Gdańsk as an author and actor and also with the press all over the country as an author and caricaturist. In the second half of the 1960s he performed on the public Polish Television, where he was a co-author of various TV shows, such as: Poznajmy się, Małżeństwo doskonałe, Kariera i Runda. In the 70s he co-created a radio satirical magazine60 minut na godzinę, where he performed several roles creating famous characters, among which were: Kolega Kierownik and Kolega Kuchmistrz. He also held morning conversations on the radio. Together with Piotr Skrzynecki he hosted the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. Throughout 60’s and 70’s he performed on stage, first in Kabaret Wagabunda, afterwards in a programme Popierajmy się. Later on, until the beginning of martial law in Poland, he performed on individual author’s evenings. When martial law was introduced in Poland, he decided to break all the contacts with national mass media. He performed mainly in so called "church areas" where he presented his caricatures and pro-Solidarity drawings. Moreover, he gave lectures during Tygodnie Kultury Chrześcijańskiej. At that time both audio and video programmes were released on cassettes in the system of "second circulation". His idea in those times was to ridicule the regime TV news and he continued that after 1995. He was a host of the controversial programme Dziennik Telewizyjny on TVP. His programme went through a metamorphosis from the one about politics into a TV show. In 2005 Dziennik Telewizyjny changed its name into Subiektywny Ekspres Jacka Fedorowicza aka SEJF for several months. The satirist ended his collaboration with TVP in 2006. Since 1989 he has hosted author’s evenings in different cities. For some time in 2006 he compered Z przymrużeniem kamery - the series of programmes broadcast by Kino Polska TV which focuses on presenting Polish classic comedy movies. Starting from 1999 he has been writing satirical articles that were published first in Gazeta Telewizyjna and now, from April 2008, they are published in Wednesday cultural supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza.
Personal life
He is married and has one daughter, three grandchildren and one great-grandson. Together with his wife Anna he was engaged in Prymasowski Komitet Pomocy Osobom Pozbawionym Wolności i ich Rodzinom that was active during the martial law. He participates as an amateur in long-distance races.
Awards
Fedorowicz was a laureate of Nagroda Kisiela in 1994 in the category of publicism. Other awards and prizes include:
1968 – Złoty Ekran
1968 – Nagroda Komitetu ds. Radia i Telewizji
1975 – Złoty Mikrofon for radio entertainment programmes.
1976 – Nagroda Komitetu ds.Radia i Telewizji for the team preparing the programme 60 minut na godzinę.
1987 – Nagroda „Solidarności” for satirical programmes distributed on video cassettes in second circulation
2001 – Wiktor 2000 in the category "television personality of the year".
2002 – Gwiazda Telewizji Polskiej - a statuette given on the occasion of 50 years of the public Polish Television for "original and entertaining TV shows"
2002, 2003, 2004 –three prizes on the third, fourth and fifth Festival of Good Humour in Gdańsk for TV shows
2005 – Superwiktor
2005 – „Gwiazda Uśmiechu” – a prize received from the audience on the sixth Festival of Good Humour in Gdańsk
2006 – A prize for lifetime career artistic achievements received on the seventh Festival of Good Humour in Gdańsk.
Selected filmography
Do widzenia, do jutra
Małżeństwo z rozsądku
Lekarstwo na miłość
Kochajmy Syrenki, the script and one of the main roles
Polowanie na muchy
Motodrama the main role
Poszukiwany, poszukiwana, the script and dialogues
Nie ma róży bez ognia, the script and the main role
