Jan Biczycki

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Jan-Paul Biczycki (born June 20, 1931 in Katowice , Poland , † February 18, 1996 in Munich ) was an actor, director and acting teacher. He was the husband of Roma Ligocka .

Life

Born in Poland and Germany, he spent his childhood first in Silesia , then in Austria and, during the emergence of Stalinism, in a Jesuit boarding school in Poland.

He completed a degree in Polish and Theater Studies in Warsaw and the Łódź Film School . There he met Roman Polański and Andrzej Wajda , among others , and co-founded the first system-critical student club in Warsaw ( Stodola ). Biczycki became known for the legendary production of the play "King Ubu" (Polish: Król Ubu ) and gained nationwide popularity and notoriety as the artistic director of the Juliusz Słowacki Theater in Krakow . In 1965 he fled Poland and stayed permanently in the west. At first he mainly worked at the State Theater in Kiel , later he was appointed professor for theater studies at the University of Munich . From mid-1974 he worked at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

He did numerous work abroad, including in London , Graz , Salzburg , Vienna , Tel Aviv and Tehran (1975). In addition to his later main job as a director and acting teacher, Biczycki can be seen again and again in film and television productions, for example as Jakob Brunnhuber in Regina from 1990 to 1992 and as Prince Naryschkin in the series Der Salzbaron 1993.

As part of his teaching activities, he accompanied numerous people from the film, television and theater industries on their first professional steps. Including Nikolai Karo and Sönke Wortmann .

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SURNAME Biczycki, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biczycki, Jan-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1996
Place of death Munich