Andrzej Szczytko

Andrzej Szczytko (2007)

Andrzej Szczytko (born October 9, 1955 in Grajewo , Poland ) is a Polish actor and director .

biography

Szczytko studied at the State University of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź and at the Goodman School of Drama ( DePaul University ) and worked from 1977 to 1978 at the Norwid Theater in Jelenia Góra , then at the Węgierki Theater in Białystok (1978 –1980), at the Polish Theater in Szczecin (1981–1983), the Theater in Zielona Góra (1993–1995), the Polish Theater in Poznań (1983–2000) and the Nowy Theater in Łódź (2009–2012). He took part in various tours as well as in European and international festivals and worked with Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa and Henryk Tomaszewski . Among other things, Szczytko was also director of the Polish Institute for Theater Arts New York (1991–1993) and Polish Theater Posen (1998–2000)

For his artistic and acting-pedagogical work, he was honored in 2012 with the award for merits in Polish culture and in 2017 with the silver Gloria Artis medal for cultural merit . Szczytko has received numerous prizes and awards, including the most important Polish Witkacy Theater Prize in 2016.

Theater works (selection)

A. Szczytko and J. Głowacki , Charkiw (2014)

• 1977: Iphigenia on Tauris according to Goethe (Orestes)
• 1982: Mother Courage and her children after Bertolt Brecht (Der Fähnrich)
• 1983: Ulysses after James Joyce (doctor, gravedigger, soldier)
• 1983: The trial according to Franz Kafka (Titorelli)
• 1987: Ancestral celebration after Adam Mickiewicz (Thomas, Wysocki, Justyn Pol)
• 1988: King Ubu after Alfred Jarry (conspirator)
• 1990: Moral treatise based on Czeslaw Milosz , director
• 1999: What you want according to William Shakespeare (Orsino, Duke of Illyria)
• 2010: Biedermann and the arsonists after Max Frisch (Gottlieb Biedermann)
• 2014: Antigone in New York based on Janusz Glowacki , director
• 2017: The card index based on Tadeusz Rozewicz , director

Filmography (selection)

• 1983: Mother Courage and her children, (The Ensign)
• 1985: The Republic of Ostrowska, (Feliks Krogulecki)
• 1986: A friend of God,
• 1986: The Republic of Hope, (Feliks Krogulecki)
• 1988–1991: The Borderlands in Fire, (TV series, Lenart)
• 1989: The Normal Heart, (Bruce Niles)
• 1989: Chancellor, (Urowiecki)
• 1989: Danzig 1939, (Stanislaw Poszwa)
• 1996: Posen 56, (a surgeon)
• 1999: With fire and sword , (Ataman)
• 2001–2005: Sensations of the Twentieth Century, (TV series)
• 2006–2008: Crime wave, (Minister of Finance)
• 2007: Mystery of the Codes Stronghold, (Thomas Gregg)
• 2009–2011: Don Matteo , (Rector)
• 2014: True Law, (a judge)

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Szczytko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrzej Szczytko in the Internet Movie Database (English)