Barbara Grabowska

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Barbara Grabowska (born November 28, 1954 in Zabrze , † August 12, 1994 in Częstochowa ), also known under the name Barbara Grabowska-Oliwa , was a Polish actress .

Life

Barbara Grabowska studied at the State Theater School (PWST) in Cracow . In 1979 she finished her acting training and in the same year made her professional stage debut at the “Old Theater” ( Stary Teatr ) in Krakow. Grabowska remained connected to the playhouse until her death in 1994, where she worked with such well-known directors as Andrzej Wajda . At the side of Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and Jerzy Stuhr she was seen in Wajda's 1984 production of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement . The production at the Alter Theater was followed by guest performances abroad, including in 1986 in New York , where Grabowska received praise from critics for her interpretation of Sonja.

Parallel to her work at the theater, Grabowska was only seen sporadically in film or television projects, almost exclusively with political-historical material. In 1979 she made her film debut in Wiktor Skrzynecki's feature film Mysz , which was followed by the role of Joanna Frankowska in the award-winning historical television multi-part series Najdluzsza wojna nowoczesnej Europy . In Jerzy Sztwiertnia's project , a chronology of Poland from 1815 to 1918, she worked alongside Krzysztof Kolberger, among others . Grabowska's breakthrough as a film actress came a little later with Agnieszka Holland's historical drama Fever (1981). The film adaptation of a novel by Andrzej Strug takes place at the beginning of the 20th century and is about the unsuccessful attempts by a group of Polish socialists who plan to kill the Tsarist governor general with a bomb.

In 1981, Fieber was banned from performing by the Warsaw authorities, while Agnieszka Holland emigrated to France. In the same year, the film received an invitation to compete at the 31st Berlin Film Festival , where Grabowska was awarded the Silver Bear for best actress at the film festival five years after her compatriot Jadwiga Barańska won . For her portrait of Kama, who cannot withstand the psychological pressure of sacrificing herself as a suicide bomber, the competition jury around the German director Jutta Brückner preferred the 26-year-old to well-known actors like the American Lee Remick ( A Summer in Manhattan ) or the German Angela Winkler ( The Refusal ) given. Grabowska is still the last Polish actress to triumph in Berlin.

After the success of Fieber , the supporting role of Jola in Waldemar Krzystek's political feature film Ostatni prom (1989), in which Krzysztof Kolberger and Agnieszka Holland played the leading roles, was Grabowska's last screen appearance. Five years later, her body was found on the train tracks near the town of Częstochowa . The 39-year-old actress is believed to have fallen from a train.

Filmography

  • 1979: Mysz
  • 1981: Najdłuższa wojna nowoczesnej Europy (TV multi-part)
  • 1981: Fever (Gorączka)
  • 1989: The last ferry (Ostatni prom)

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Gussow, Mel: The Stage: 'Crime And Punishment' . In: The New York Times , July 17, 1986
  2. ↑ cf. Description of the contents of Gorączka in the All Movie Guide (accessed June 1, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Grabowska, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grabowska-Oliwa, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabrze
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1994
Place of death Czestochowa