Jerzy Jarocki

Jerzy Jarocki (born May 11, 1929 in Warsaw ; † October 10, 2012 there ) was a Polish theater director .

Life

Jarocki completed his acting studies at the Kraków Theater School in 1952 . He then studied theater directing at the GITIS State Theater Institute in Moscow . In 1957 he made his debut in Katowice with the grotesque Der Ball der Mannequins by Bruno Jasieński . He worked in Katowice until the end of the 1961/62 season, where he mainly realized contemporary pieces.

From 1962 to 1998 Jarocki was in-house director at the Old Theater (Stary Teatr) in Krakow. He staged works by Tadeusz Różewicz and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz , among others , as well as Calderón's Das Leben ein Traum (1983) and Goethe's Faust (1997). In addition, Jarocki, who had been a professor at the Cracow Theater Academy since 1966, gave numerous guest performances such as 1982 at the Berliner Festwochen , and also in Amsterdam , Belgrade , Novi Sad , Wuppertal and Zurich .

His most successful premieres in the 1990s were at the Polish Theater (Teatr Polski) in Breslau (Wroclaw). These included The Trap by Różewicz (1992), Platonow (1993) and Uncle Wanja (2000) von Chekhov and Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (1994). Together with Krzysztof Penderecki , he created the German-language libretto for his opera buffa Ubu Rex from 1991.

Jarocki was a more intellectually oriented director who gave his stage visions priority and did not tie in with the romantic tradition of Polish theater.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2000)

literature

• Wojciech Dudzik: Jarocki, Jerzy . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 347 f.

Web links

• Jerzy Jarocki in the Internet Movie Database (English)