Urban complained about his increasingly weak libido. After one of the parties, his wife had to hire a detective

The book “Urban. Biografia” was published by Znak Publishing House. Its authors are Dorota Karaś and Marek Sterlingow. As the reporters reveal, they have been working on this publication for several years. Thanks to the courtesy of Znak Publishing House, we are publishing fragments of the book.

Republic in the Urbana Basin

Urban’s concern is his increasingly weak libido. She reports her problem to sexologist Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz. The doctor performs a series of painful treatments involving injecting plasma into the penis. However, the treatment does not bring any results. Daniszewska tries other methods. For their annual holiday on June 13 (wedding anniversary), she invents erotic attractions to excite her husband, for example an orgy in the pool with prostitutes. Urban, of course, has no right to participate in it. The leader of the Republic, Grzegorz Ciechowski, is happy to splash on it.

The bill for jealousy

At Magda Gessler’s party, Daniszewska, to provoke her husband, sits on the lap of her friend from Sweden. He strokes her thighs, which irritates Urban so much that he leaves the party. (It will later turn out that the man was gay and the dalliance was a joke.) Offended, Urban goes to the Victoria Hotel in protest. There, like a real man, first he drinks heavily, then he allows himself to be financially exploited by a prostitute in the club. They go to the room together. In the morning, his wife finds the lonely man there and begins a tedious investigation. Urban tries to lie, but he is betrayed by the butts of thin filtered cigarettes in the ashtray, the bill for a long call to the USA and – most suspiciously – the lack of panties.

Daniszewska hires a private detective. His task is to determine the woman’s identity. She is obliged to take an HIV test, which is negative. The bill for Urban’s jealousy (a night in a hotel, a detective, the cost of convincing a woman to take a test, a diamond bracelet to propitiate his wife, and still quite good panties) exceeds the value of the luxury car. Throughout the entire investigation, Daniszewska treats him like nothing, but then she gets over it. Urban argues that he didn’t accomplish anything great during the night with the prostitute.

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Grandpa Urban

Missing the childhood of his first grandchildren, Marysia and Adam, was as easy for Urban as missing the childhood of their mother, Magda. When Zosia was born to his stepdaughter Marta in 2001, and Janek two years later, it seemed that the same would happen to them. Urban, however, is starting to get old and talking to his grandchildren amuses him – There is no point in going to school, neither is learning – he tells them, much to their mother’s fury. – Grandpa didn’t study well at any school, and he drives a Jaguar. […]

Business on corpses

Daniszewska, like Urban, got involved in business with Mariusz Świtalski. Urban got out of it smoothly, because the owner of Elektromis willingly withdrew from his shares in the weekly “Nie”, which irritated the authorities. But Świtalski also became an investor and publisher of his wife’s magazine, “Firma”. After a few years, disappointed with the profits, the businessman decides to close the business. Daniszewska feels cheated, but she does not give up her dream of having her own, widely read magazine.

In 1998, “Zły” appeared on newsstands, in which descriptions of the murders juxtaposed with the memories of a Ravensbrück prisoner. In the editorial, the editor-in-chief argues that people need “the truth about their species”. The monthly magazine shocks with graphic photos of victims of murders, torture, accidents, rapes, executions and descriptions of violence. After a wave of criticism in 2000, Ruch refuses to further distribute the magazine and the owner is forced to close it. In court, he receives PLN 200,000 in compensation. The magazine apparently did not sell well, since Daniszewska considers it “the best business she has ever made in her life.” Urban was not involved in publishing “Zły”. He treated the newspaper as an experiment in freedom of speech.

Daniszewska finds consolation in being the head of the much more aesthetic monthly “Art & Business”, devoted to art and antiques, also owned by Świtalski. When the businessman decides to close this magazine as well, Daniszewska will be at odds with him forever.