Aleksander Bardini

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Aleksander Bardini's grave in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

Aleksander Bardini (born November 17, 1913 in Łódź , † July 30, 1995 in Warsaw ) was a Polish actor , director and theater teacher .

Aleksander Bardini studied drama in Warsaw from 1932 to 1935 and, as a drama student, directed at school. Before the Second World War , he played theater in Warsaw, but without noticeable success. After the beginning of the war in 1939, like many intellectuals, he fled to Lviv , but was surprised there by the Soviet occupation. He found a new home at the Lviv Theater, acted and directed. After the war and the shifting of the Polish borders to the west, he fled to Katowice with the Polish theater company . There his actors took over the theater and he founded an acting school. When there was a pogrom by Poland on the Jewish population in Kielce in 1946 , Bardini left the country. In the USA he worked with the German director Erwin Piscator . When he returned to Germany , Bardini also went to Germany and directed in Munich . In 1950 Bardini returned to Poland and was employed at the Teatr Polski in Warsaw, where he stayed until 1957.

During this time he also began teaching as a teacher at the State Drama School PWST in Warsaw. Professor Bardini became an institution of theatrical art in Poland and stayed at the school until 1978. In addition to theater plays, he also staged operas and endeavored to train actors to sing. As early as the 1970s, he introduced shows on Polish television that enabled amateur talented singing careers, as is popular today in programs such as Deutschland sucht den Superstar . As a teacher he was also valued abroad, for example, he gave seminars in the USA and Sweden .

From the late 1970s on, he mainly worked as a teacher and juror at various festivals. Above all, the annual Wroclaw Chanson Festival was shaped by him until the end of his life. He also had numerous guest appearances in films. Most recently, he was seen in the German low-budget film Auf Wiedersehen Amerika by Jan Schütte in 1994. Here he stood in front of the camera with Christa Berndl , Zofia Merle , George Tabori and Otto Tausig .

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SURNAME Bardini, Aleksander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actor, director and theater educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1995
Place of death Warsaw