Although Szostak does not speak Polish, he stated in an interview with Wprost weekly that he remembers his Polish roots.
He replaced Tomasz Lis who was in charge of the magazine since May 2010.
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Other well-known tenants included the Publishing and Advertising Agency On (publisher of the weekly Wprost), Dell, and ABG S.A., a publicly listed IT company.
A 2013 article in Polish magazine Wprost, drawing on the finding of Austrian journalist Martin Pollack and writer Christoph Ransmayr, disputes most facts forming the core of Schimek's story.
According to Dorota Kania, a journalist of Wprost and Gazeta Polska magazines, Lis is the son of a prominent member of the Polish United Workers' Party, and in the 1980s, shortly studied at Karl Marx University in Leipzig.