Jerzy Grzegorzewski

Jerzy Grzegorzewski (1982)

Jerzy Grzegorzewski's grave in the Powązki cemetery

Jerzy Grzegorzewski (born June 22, 1939 in Łódź , † April 9, 2005 in Warsaw ) was a Polish theater director.

life and work

Grzegorzewski first studied art in Łódź and then theater directing at PWST in Warsaw . In 1963, while still a student, he assisted the director at the time, the legendary director Kazimierz Dejmek, at the Polish National Theater in Warsaw . After graduating, he went back to Łódź and made his debut there as a director. He designed the sets for his productions himself. First works by authors such as Bertolt Brecht , Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and, above all, his first staging of the wedding celebration by Stanisław Wyspiański . In 1976 Grzegorzewski moved to the Old Theater in Kraków and stayed there until 1982, intensifying his work on Wyspiański pieces. Among other things, he realized another performance of the wedding celebration . From 1879 to 1981 he was also artistic director of the Polish Theater in Wroclaw . In 1982 he was appointed director of the Studio Theater in Warsaw to succeed Józef Szajna . This is where his greatest time as a director began. With his productions he commented on contemporary Poland until after the political change in 1989. In 1997 he was appointed director of the reopened Polish National Theater and began working there from the 1999/2000 season. Here he gathered the most important Polish theater actors, many of whom he had shaped and made famous himself in the studio theater.

The main stage of the Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu ( Polish Theater in Wroclaw ) is named after him.