24th February 2011
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Controversial Chopin comic publisher to return money
 |
| The publisher will reimburse €30,000 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Courtesy of www.kultura.com.pl |
Kultura Gniewu, publisher of the controversial and much discussed comic "Chopin: New Romantic" has announced that it will return the €30,000 it received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fund production of the book, Gazeta Wyborcza reports.
The purpose of the comic, designed by artist and singer Krzysztof Ostrowski, was to promote Frederic Chopin in an unconventional manner to younger age groups in Germany.
In "Chopin: New Romantic", the composer is placed in modern times as head of a pop group on his way to a concert at a prison. Vulgar vocabulary is widely used in the text, a fact that had the Ministry of Foreign Affairs fuming.
From Warsaw Business Journal
Advertisement
It is difficult to
think of any major European country where there is as much
polarization and hatred between political parties and ... READ MORE
Following a flurry of announcements by
top EU officials (including the President of the European Commission
Jose Manuel Barroso), that they will ... READ MORE
back
Go to topOur partners
