Jarosław Gugała

Jarosław Rafał Gugała (born 13 April 1959, in Młynary) is a Polish radio and television journalist, actor, musician, university teacher, from 1999 to 2003 serving as an ambassador to Uruguay.

Jarosław Gugała
Poland Ambassador to Uruguay
In office
1999–2003
Preceded byRyszard Schnepf
Succeeded byLech Kubiak
Personal details
Born (1959-04-13) 13 April 1959
Młynary, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
ProfessionJournalist, actor, musician, university teacher, diplomat

Life

Gugała holds an M.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Warsaw.[1] He also studied economics at the Warsaw School of Economics.[2]

In 1983, he co-founded the band Zespół Reprezentacyjny and became its singer. The band was playing songs of different cultural heritages, e.g. Brazilian, Sefardic, by Lluís Llach, Georges Brassens.[3]

In 1990, he joined news program Wiadomości (News) at TVP1 and started his career as a journalist and presenter. Between 1992 and 1995, he was director of the TVP1 and Television Information Agency.[2]

In 1999, Gugała was appointed ambassador to Uruguay.[1] Thanks to his reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Jan Kobylański's antisemitism it was possible to remove Kobylański from the office of honorary consul.[4]

In 2003, Gugała ended his term in Montevideo[5] and returned to his journalist profession. He started working for Polsat television channel, becoming host of the chief news program.[2] In 2005, he was presented as a candidate for ambassadorial post in Cuba[6] but did not receive an agrément.[7] In 2008, he joined Polsat News. In 2010, he was carrying out a final debate of the presidential campaign between Bronisław Komorowski and Jarosław Kaczyński. From February 2011 to August 2012 he was holding the post of the head of the News and the Publications and Information Division.[8]

He was working also for TOK FM radio station (2005–2007), TV4 television channel, Newsweek Polska as a columnist, University of Warsaw as a lecturer.[9] Occasionally, he plays as a film actor.[10]

In 2014, Gugała was awarded with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[11]

Works

Books

  • Gugała, Jarosław (2012). Doskonale a nawet gorzej : świat we mgle absurdu (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Albatros A. Kuryłowicz. p. 351. ISBN 9788376597522.

Music albums as Zespół Reprezentacyjny

  • Za nami noc... (pieśni Lluisa Llacha) (1985)
  • Śmierć za idee – ballady Georgesa Brassensa (1986)
  • Sefarad (1991)
  • Pornograf (1993)
  • Kumple to grunt (2007)

Filmography[10]

References
  1. Milan, Sylwia (2008). Wszystko na jedną kartę (in Polish). Poznań: Publicat. pp. 41–42. ISBN 978-83-245-1503-5.
  2. "Gwiazdy Polsatu: Jarosław Gugała". polsat.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  3. "Jarosław Gugała". Zespół Reprezentacyjny (in Polish). Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  4. Świętoń, Kamil (March 2008). "Wywiady: Jarosław Gugała, dziennikarz, dyplomata, prezenter i redaktor naczelny "Wydarzeń" Polsatu". dziennikarze.info. Archived from the original on 30 March 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  5. "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 14 lipca 2003 r. nr Z. 110-19-2003 w sprawie odwołania Ambasadora Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 14 July 2003. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  6. "Komisja Spraw Zagranicznych /nr 269/". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 25 August 2005. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  7. "Zapis przebiegu posiedzenia Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych /nr 70/". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 21 March 2013. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  8. "Telewizja Polsat szykuje zmiany w strukturze Polsat News, Jarosław Gugała odpowiada za pasmo o 22.00". wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). 10 April 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  9. "Wydział Dziennikarstwa Informacji i Bibliologii UW – Prowadzący". wdib.uw.edu.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  10. "Jarosław Gugała". FilmPolski.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  11. "59 odznaczonych za zasługi dla wolności / Ordery i odznaczenia". prezydent.pl (in Polish). 5 June 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
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