Jakub Rotbaum
Jakub Rotbaum (born July 11, 1901 in Żelechów , Russian Empire ; died January 30, 1994 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish theater director and painter who had lived in Wroclaw since 1949.
Life
Rotbaum studied directing in Moscow in the 1920s under Konstantin Stanislawski , Vsevolod Meyerhold , Alexander Tairow and Solomon Michoels . In 1929 he joined the Yiddish Vilnius troop in Warsaw .
From 1942 to 1948 Jakub directed works in New York, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, London, Paris and Israel. In 1949 he returned to Poland to direct the Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He accepted an invitation from Ida Kaminska. In 1952 he became theater director at the Polish Theater in Warsaw.
From 1967 he directed classics such as Shakespeare's Hamlet , Brecht's Threepenny Opera and Chekhov's Three Sisters . He worked in Warsaw as well as in São Paulo, Paris and Bucharest. After the March unrest in Poland in 1968 (after the Six Day War ) he was only allowed to work with the Jewish repertoire. Since then he has never worked at the Polish theater again and all of his productions in European countries as well as in North and South America were based on Jewish repertoire.
His paintings were shown in the Museum of Medal Arts in 1994 and all over the world, first in Warsaw in 1925 and finally in Wrocław.
Works
- The Veg tsum Gezunt 1947
- The yidisher Yeshuv in Nidershlezien 1947
- Our children
- Me, alive 1947
literature
- Szczepan Gąssowski, ed .: Państwowy Teatr Żydowski im. Ester Rachel Kamińskiej: Przeszłość i teraźniejszość Warsaw 1995.
- Anna Hannowa, Jakub Rotbaum: Świat zaginiony; Malarstwo, rysunki Breslau 1995 (in Polish, German and English)
- Anna Hannowa: The Vilna Years of Jakub Rotbaum Polin 14 (2001), pp. 156-169.
- Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska and Małgorzata Leyko: Teatr żydowski w Polsce Łódź 1998 (in Polish and English)
- Artur Hofman: Teatr w Kadrze (documentary about Jakub Rotbaum)
Web links
- http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/lyt-rotbaum-jakub-01.htm
- Jakub Rotbaum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rotbaum, Jakub |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish theater director and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Żelechów |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1994 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |