Wojciech Cejrowski

Wojciech Daniel Cejrowski (born 27 June 1964 in Elbląg) is a Polish radio journalist, satirist, photographer, travel writer, artistic director of the Discover World library, and a member of The Explorers Club.

Education

Cejrowski graduated from the XVII High School by the name of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski in Warsaw. In 2010 he received a BA in sociology from the Catholic University of Lublin. Cejrowski also studied without graduating at Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy; University of Warsaw, Santa Clara University.

Career

Radio

Cejrowski started his radio career in 1991 – along with Korneliusz Pacuda he conducted the program (Is There a Place for country music in Poland?). One of its results was a contract with American ABC Network – since 1992 all Polish local broadcasting stations had started to broadcast Polish versions of American Country Countdown. Wojciech Cejrowski (initially alongside Pacuda) hosted this broadcast for eleven years. The very last one (№ 519) was broadcast in January 2003. In 1993 Cejrowski was offered a job by Wojciech Mann and Krzysztof Materna, owners of the private radio station Radio Kolor (Radio Color). First he hosted his own music programme then also famous (Airplane) together with Beata Pawlikowska and then his leading morning programme (every Saturday from 6 to 10 am – which later gave the beginning to ). His cooperation with Radio Kolor ended in 1997 (soon after Mann and Materna left the radio station and some changes for the worse were made). He worked for Radio WAW-a for next 3 years (1997–1999). These days Cejrowski's radio broadcasts can be found in various public and private broadcasting stations in Poland. The best known is his traveler cycle (On the Other Side of the Globe) – more than 300 episodes that were broadcast by Radio Station 1, Radio dla Ciebie, Radio Koszalin, Radio Merkury, Radio PiK and Radio Network PLUS. He also works for Polish Radio Station 1. He sends his correspondences from foreign countries for (First Hand) and (The Driver's Radio) and his traveler's stories for (Summer with Radio). During the 2005 winter season Cejrowski hosted the (Winter with Radio Station One). In the meantime since 2003 he has been creating music broadcasts on the demand of Music Editorial Office – (Music on the Pier) and (Subtropical Broadcast).

Television

(WC Fifteen Minutes) broadcast by the public Polish TV (TVP) (1994–1996) is his most widely known TV programme. The show was watched by three million viewers.

Cejrowski started his TV career by cooperating with Wojciech Mann in his show (Non-stop Color) broadcast on Polish TV (1992–1994). He also was the host of the show (The Stable) broadcast by the Polish TV and some local TV stations. Between 1996 and 1997 Cejrowski recorded a series of 30 episodes reporting on his journey to South America for TV Niepokalanów (now called TV Puls).

While at RTL 7 since 1997, Cejrowski, along with Jan Pietrzak, Jan Tadeusz Stanisławski, Krzysztof Daukszewicz and others, participated in a satirist talk show focused on various aspects of daily life in Poland. Between 1999 and 2000 Cejrowski co-hosted with Alicja Resich-Modlińska the talk show (Beauty and the Beast).

While at Polsat (2003-4) Cejrowski hosted his own show (With Camera Amongst the People also broadcast by TV 4 and Polsat 2). His highest level of publicity reached 2.5 million people – a № 4 record in Poland.

In 2007 Cejrowski started his popular Barefoot Around the World travel show (), awarded the 2008 Travel & Tourism New York Festivals Gold World Medal.

Writing

Cejrowski writes and publishes quite a lot on social and political situations, including columns in ''Gazeta Polska'', '' Tygodnik AWS'', and '' Ilustrowany Kurier Polski'', and on travel, including humorous reports in ''Newsweek'', ''Rzeczpospolita'', '' Poznaj Świat'' and others.

Political humor

* (''Mophead Stands on End'')
* (''The Hammer for the Left'')
* (''Salt into an Eye'')

Travel writing

* (''Traveler WC'')
* (''At the Orinoco's End'')
* (''Gringo Among the Wild Tribes'')
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* (''Island in the Prairie'')

Controversy

Cejrowski is Poland's most prominent journalist to openly advocate against the LGBTQ rights movement. In his rhetoric, Cejrowski refers to LGBTQ people as "sodomites", "buggers", and "paederasts". In his article for ''Dziennik'', he has written that he "prefers savages over gay parades". Cejrowski states that European society is overwhelmingly against homosexuality, and advocates for the creation of a nationwide network of homosexuality clinics aiming to ' alter this disgusting behavior'. He says that "gay people should be pointed at, as the sin of sodomy evokes disgust".

In April 2008 Cejrowski announced his intention to abandon his Polish citizenship and acquire the Ecuadorian one instead, due to his disenchantment with the European Union, citing high taxes and problems with obtaining visas.

The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has identified his YouTube account as a notable propagator of Russian disinformation in Poland. He has been listed in the ''Brown Book'' of the "Never Again" Association, compiled to monitor neo-fascism in Poland, the group has also highlighted his racist promotion of 5G and COVID-19 conspiracy theories. In 2018 the Rainbow Project condemned a scheduled appearance by Cejrowski at Belfast’s Strand Arts Centre due to his history of homophobia, Islamophobia and misogony.

In April 2021 a right-wing magazine ''Do Rzeczy'' published an interview with Cejrowski, wherein he expressed his contempt for the Black Lives Matter movement and his belief in the superiority of Christianity and Western civilization.

Religion

Cejrowski is a hard line traditional Catholic. He has stated that as far as the Bible is concerned, he prefers The Old Testament – he likes when God is speaking to him directly, telling him what is good and what is sinful, and what to do. He is also a known critic of the former Pope Francis, calling him a satanist.

Cejrowski postulates, that Catholic priests should be exempt from the rule of law in a given country, instead being accountable only to their church's hierarchy. He adds, that most priests who supposedly molested kids are gay, thus perpetuating the myth of gays being more prone to paedophilia than other sexual orientations.

Cejrowski is also strongly against abortion. In one interview he said "I wish abortion clinics could burn down and abortion providers get shot".

See also

*Janusz Korwin-Mikke

References

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1964 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
People from Elbląg
Polish conservatives
Polish anti-communists
Polish eurosceptics
Polish radio journalists
Polish Roman Catholic writers
Polish male comedians
Polish stand-up comedians
Polish television journalists
Polish travel writers
COVID-19 conspiracy theorists