Leokadia Serafinowicz

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Leokadia Serafinowicz (born February 23, 1915 in Janów , in today's Lithuania , † November 24, 2007 in Puszczykowo , Poland ) was a Polish actress and puppeteer, director, set designer and author of numerous scripts.

From 1960 to 1976 she directed the Poznan puppet and drama theater "Marcinek" and was committed to the spread and development of Polish puppet and children's theater. She was co-founder and from 1981 to 1982 first chairwoman of the Polish department ASSISTEJ and since 2000 honorary member of UNIMA .

For her services to the puppet theater she received numerous prizes, including a. Gold medal in the field of theater set design during the 2nd stage design quadrennial in Prague (1971), the Order of the Smile (1978) and the Officer's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta .

Youth and education

Serafinowicz was born into a Polish family with patriotic traditions. From 1937 to 1939 she studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius . After the Second World War she was relocated to Poland as part of the repatriation . She continued her studies from 1945 to 1948 at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń , where she defended her master's thesis in painting in 1951 . In 1954 she passed the acting examination in the subject of puppet theater. In 1961 she was given the authority to work as a puppet theater director.

Career

Krakow, Wroclaw, Bielsko-Biała

From 1948 to 1956 she worked in the Groteska Puppet Theater in Kraków as an actress and assistant to Władysław Jarema, one of the outstanding artists of the post-war Polish puppet theater. Here she gained her first experience as an independent director. From 1956 to 1958 she was the artistic director of the puppet stage of the Teatr Rozmaitości (Theater of diversity) in Wroclaw , where she worked on her director's workshop and made his debut as a stage designer. From 1958 to 1960 she worked as a director and set designer in the puppet theater "Banialuka" in Bielsko-Biała , where she a. a. staged her own plays: "O słońcu, sroczce i krasnoludkach" ("From the sun, the magpie and the dwarfs", 1958) and "Profesor Serduszko" ("Professor Herzlein" 1960), which she wrote under the pseudonym "Dominika".

Poznan puppet and actor theater "Marcinek"

From 1960 to 1976 she was the director and until 1980 the artistic director of the Marcinek puppet and drama theater in Poznań, which quickly became one of the most important puppet theaters in Poland and one of the most famous abroad.

In the program for one of the performances, she wrote:

"The children's theater should acquaint the young audience with the language of art, it should teach them the conventions of art, it has the duty to develop aesthetic sensitivity in the child and to enrich their imagination"

- Leokadia Serafinowicz : O słonku, sroce i krasnoludkach (Of the Sun, the Magpie and the Dwarfs) - 1960 performance program

As a theater director she created ambitious theater for children and young people that addressed current, socially relevant topics and made use of contemporary artistic means of expression. She regarded the theater for children as a “theater for the people of the future” and put the repertoire together in such a way that the plays spoke of the complexity of life and taught critical thinking. In this way, Leokadia Serafinowicz not only created ambitious theater for children, but also made her contribution to consolidating the position of puppet theater as an art for young people and adults. Thanks to their efforts, “Marcinek” became one of the first Polish puppet theaters to regularly present its pieces to an older audience.

The hallmark of the Poznan Puppet Theater was the artistic quality of the performances, both in terms of their musical and literary level. Serafinowicz's closest collaborators included: Wojciech Wieczorkiewicz (director), Jan Berdyszak (set designer), Józef Ratajczak (poet) and Krystyna Miłobędzka (poet and playwright). Apart from them, several composers also worked with “Marcinek”: Krzysztof Penderecki , Marek Stachowski , Jerzy Milian and Jerzy Kurczewski. The "Marcinek" also worked with foreign artists: Jetta Donega (Italy) Julia Ognianowa (Bulgaria), Josef Krofta ( Czech Republic ), Karel Brožek (Czech Republic), František Vitek (Czech Republic) and Vera Řičařova (Czech Republic). The “Marcinek” pieces have been translated into many languages: English , French , German , Italian , Czech and Esperanto . They have been presented several times around the world at different festivals in England , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Czechoslovakia , Denmark , France , Italy , Japan , Canada , Cuba , Mexico , the GDR , the FRG , and Switzerland , in the USA , in Hungary and in the USSR .

Pieces from the Poznan Puppet and Drama Theater and “Marcinek” performed abroad
  • 1967: About Kasia, who has lost her goslings (O Kasi, co gąski zgubiła ) Libretto : M. Kownacka, music: L. Kurczewski, director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design : L. Serafinowicz
  • 1968: The Courageous (Najdzielniejszy ) Libretto: E. Szelburg-Zarembina, music: K. Penderecki and M. Stachowski, director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design : J. Berdyszak
  • 1969: When the woman sowed the poppy (Siała baba mak) by Krystyna Miłobędzka, director: L. Serafinowicz, set design: J. Berdyszak
  • 1970: Heimat (Ojczyzna) by Krystyna Miłobędzka, director: W. Wieczorkiewic, set design: J Berdyszak
  • 1970: Hephaistos (Hefajstos) by Anna Świrszczyńska, director: W. Wieczorkiewic, set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1972: Lajkonik ( Lajkonik ), libretto: M. Kownacka, music: L. Kurczewski, director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1974: Little Tiger (Tygrysek) by Hanna Januszewska, director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1975: Janosik ( Janosik ) by Karel Brožek, Jan V. Dvorak, Krystyna Miłobędzka, directors: J. Krofta, W. Wieczorkiewicz, K. Brožek, J. Mokos, sets: F. Vitek, L. Serafinowicz, V. Řičařova, K. Hejcman
  • 1976: Don Quixote ( Don Kichot ) by Miguel de Cervantes Savedra , director: J. Krofta, set design: F. Vitek, V. Řičařova
  • 1977: Ptam ( Ptam ) by Krystyna Miłobędzka , director: L.Serafinowicz, set design: J. Berdyszak
Other important performances of "Marcinek" (selection)
  • 1961: A ball with Professor Bączyński (Bal u profesora Bączyńskiego) by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński; Direction and set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1961: Reineke Fuchs ( Pieśń o lisie ) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ; Director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1965: The Nightingale (Słowik) by Józef Ratajczak; Director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design: L. Serafinowicz
  • 1969: The Wedding (Wesele) of Stanisław Wyspiański ; Direction: L. Serafinowicz, set design: J. Berdyszak
  • 1970: Wanda ( Wanda ) by Cyprian Kamil Norwid ; Director: W. Wieczorkiewicz, set design: L. Serafinowicz

Cooperation with other theaters

Leokadia Serafinowicz has worked in many theaters at home and abroad, including Romania ( Tigrisorul , 1970) and Czechoslovakia ( Aj tak sejou mak… , 1973). She created the sets for performances in Bulgaria ( Misterium-buffo , 1968), Romania ( Tigrisorul , 1970), in Czechoslovakia ( Janosik, 1975), in the FRG ( Reineke Fuchs , 1980; Jim Kopf und der Lokomotiveführer , 1987; König Someone, 1988; Jim Kopf und die Wilde 13 , 1988) and in Russia ( Schuster Dratewka , 1996).

Exhibitions

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Leokadia Serafinowicz's stage design has been presented in many collective stage design exhibitions, including in Warsaw (1956, 1962), Venice (1964), Liège (1970), Prague (1971), Paris (1972, 1975), Zurich (1972) and Budapest (1996). Her work has also been presented in numerous individual exhibitions, both in Germany and abroad. She presented her projects a. a. UK ( Bristol , 1986) and Czechoslovakia (Prague, 1988).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leokadia Serafinowicz. In: World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. May 9, 2016, Retrieved February 7, 2019 (American English).
  2. ^ Honorata Sych: Leokadia Serafinowicz (=  Lalkarze: materiały do ). Łódź 1996, p. 83-86127-65-1 (Polish).
  3. ^ A b Henryk Jurkowski: Moje pokolenie . POLUNIMA, Łódź 2006, ISBN 83-8612732-5 , Leokadia Serafinowicz - artysta teatru (Polish).
  4. ↑ a b Poznan Theater of Animation. In: World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. May 9, 2016, Retrieved February 7, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Marek Waszkiel: Dzieje teatru lalek w Polsce 1944-2000 . Ed .: Akademia Teatralna im. A. Zelwerowicza. Warszawa 2012, ISBN 978-83-927763-4-5 (Polish).
  6. ↑ a b c d Marta Karasińska (ed.): Poznański Teatr Lalki i Aktora 1945-1985 . Poznań 1985 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Serafinowicz, Leokadia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish artist, actress and doll maker, director, set designer, author
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Janów
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2007
Place of death Puszczykowo