Ernest Bryll

Ernest Włodzimierz Bryll (1 March 193517 March 2024) was a Polish poet, writer, songwriter, journalist, translator, film critic and diplomat.

Life Bryll was part of a peasant family from Kuyavia lake Gopło and grew up in Komorowo Stare and Gdynia. He graduated from the 2nd Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Gdynia, the Polish Philology faculty of Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (1956) In the early 1980s, when martial law was introduced in Poland, he quit the party.

Beginning in 1965 he wrote popular song lyrics sung by bands like: 2 plus 1, Enigmatic, Pakt, Partita, Myslovitz, Skaldowie, Waganci and solo artists such as: Michał Bajor, Stan Borys, Zofia i Zbigniew , Halina Frąckowiak, Marek Grechuta, , , Edward Hulewicz, Leonard Jakubowski, , Bernard Ładysz, Urszula Narbut, Czesław Niemen, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Połomski, Rudolf Poledniok, , Łucja Prus, Danuta Rinn, Maryla Rodowicz, Andrzej Rybiński, Warren Schatz, Urszula Sipińska, Józef Sojka, , Juliusz Wickiewicz.

Many of his lyrics were set to music by . In 1968, he established the band with Marek Sart. Sart wrote music; Bryll wrote the lyrics.

He also collaborated with composers such as , , Włodzimierz Korcz, Janusz Kruk, Czesław Niemen, Andrzej Zieliński.

He worked at Polish Film Institute from 2012 to 2018, as a director of the literary department.

He died 16 March 2024 in Warsaw, aged 89.

Private life He married Małgorzata Goraj, with whom he had one son and two daughters. His primary residence was Warsaw, but he also lived for many years in Otwock, which he wrote about frequently.