Wanda Jakubowska

Wanda Jakubowska (born October 10, 1907 in Warsaw ; † February 24, 1998 there ) was a Polish film director .

Life

Wanda Jakubowska grew up in a middle-class family in Warsaw between the wars. In 1927 she graduated from a Catholic lyceum of the Order of the Ursulines and began to study art history and philosophy. She got into film in the early 1930s. Her first directorial work was documentary . Wanda Jakubowska's cinematic concern was shaped by her involvement in the Polish Communist Party . She worked on her first feature film in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland . During the Second World War she was involved in the Polish underground and was arrested by the Nazis in 1942. She was interned there until the Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated in 1945 and then transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . After the liberation, she first stayed in Berlin and then went back to Poland. In 1946 she was one of the first Polish filmmakers to start working again. In 1948 her most famous film was made, which processed her experiences in Auschwitz. The last stage is still considered to be one of the most outstanding films about the suffering of the people in fascist concentration camps and has been awarded numerous international prizes. Jakubowska's documentary style in particular makes the feature film look almost like a contemporary document. The preoccupation with fascism was often the focus of the director’s further work.

From 1949 to 1974 she taught at the Łódź Film School .

Filmography

• 1932: Morze : first 9-minute documentary
• 1934: Przebudzenie ; Documentary with Aleksander Ford
• 1934: Budujemy
• 1937: Edisony Street
• 1946: Budujemy nowe wsie
• 1948: the last stage ; Direction and screenplay; Book together with Gerda Schneider, former Auschwitz prisoner
• 1953: Żolnierz zwycięstwa
• 1955: Atlantic narrative ( Opowieść atlantycka )
• 1957: Pożegnanie z diabłem
• 1958: Król Maciuś I
• 1960: Encounter in the Twilight ( Spotkania w mroku )
• 1960: A story from today ( Historia współczesna )
• 1964: The end of our world ( Koniec naszego świata )
• 1965: Gorąca linia
• 1972: 150 km / h ( 150 na godzinę )
• 1979: Biały mazur
• 1986: The invitation ( Zaproszenie )
• 1988: Kolory Kochania

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 190.

Web links

• Wanda Jakubowska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Portrait on filmpolski.pl