Janina Szarek

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Janina Szarek (born June 24, 1950 in Ruda Różaniecka , southeastern Poland ) is a Polish director , actress and theater pedagogue as well as founder and director of the German-Polish stage Teatr Studio am Salzufer in Berlin-Charlottenburg . She is also the founder and director of the Transform Drama School .

Life

Janina Szarek studied polonistics and theater studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and acting at the Cracow and Warsaw Theater Schools (1968–1972), where she graduated in 1972. After completing her studies, she worked at the Teatr Współczesny and the Teatr Polski in Wroclaw . She took part in various tours as well as in European and international festivals and worked with Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grzegorzewski and Henryk Tomaszewski. Szarek is the co-founder and long-time actress of the STU Theater in Krakow. Janina Szarek was cast in several leading roles in theater as well as television theater, including the female lead in Krystian Lupa's cult production of Fool and Nun by Witkiewicz on Polish television (1977). There were also appearances as a chanson singer with the Polish jazz group CRASH. Later she got roles at the Berliner Volksbühne as well as in German film and television.

Janina Szarek has lived and worked as a director and teacher in West Berlin since 1981 and has her own drama studio (Studio 44). She is co-founder of the well-known Teatr Kreatur by Andrej Woron , whose ensemble was awarded the Friedrich-Luft-Preis in 1994 . Szarek also worked at the Posk Theater in London. She was visiting professor at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , at the "Konrad Wolf" Babelsberg University of Film and Television and at the Theater Studies department at the Free University of Berlin . In 1994 she was the organizer of the German-Polish theater festival for the Uckermärkische Bühnen in Schwedt .

In 1999 Szarek founded the Internationale Theater Werkstatt (ITW) eV Berlin together with Olav Münzberg . She is also the founder and director of the Teatr Studio am Salzufer and Scena Plus , two German-Polish theaters in Berlin and Szczecin, respectively. Szarek is the author of various projects ( Via creativa , Euro-factory , Common Places ) that are to be implemented as part of Szczecin's candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2016.

In July 2014 she was awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for cultural merit for her artistic and acting-pedagogical work .

Honors

  • 1994: Friedrich-Luft-Preis awarded by the Berliner Morgenpost
  • 2014: Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit
  • 2015: Witkacy Theater Prize
  • 2017: Golden Owl in Vienna

Filmography

  • 1981: Mniejsze niebo
  • 1990: Lindenstrasse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1993: The sun goddess

Directorial work (selection)

Musical productions

Szarek has made guest appearances at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig , the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg, the Kleist Theater Frankfurt (Oder) , the Teatr Współczesny in Stettin, the Teatr Miejski in Gdynia and the Teatr Ludowy in Krakow.

Cooperations

Szarek undertook various collaborations with Polish state theaters, such as the Teatr Wspolczesny ( Szczecin ), the Teatr Ludowy (Krakow), the Akademia Teatralna and the Teatr na Woli (both Warsaw) as well as with the off-stage Teatr Kana (Stettin). She has received invitations to various Polish theater festivals, including "Eurodrama". In 2008 she was co-organizer of the “Festival of Small Form Counterpoint 2008”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Janina Szarek - director, acting, director. Transform Drama School , accessed December 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Dominkus i Szarek laureatkami Nagrody im. St. I. Witkiewicza. March 30, 2015, accessed April 24, 2020 (Polish).
  3. ↑ “Złote Sowy Polonii” 2017 przyznane! Solidarni2010, March 20, 2017, accessed May 21, 2019 (Polish).
  4. ↑ An old woman is brooding
personal data
SURNAME Szarek, Janina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish director, actress and theater educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruda Różaniecka , south-east Poland