Leon Schiller

Leon Schiller's statue in Warsaw

Leon Schiller origin. Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (born March 14, 1887 in Cracow , † March 25, 1954 in Warsaw ) was a Polish theater director and theater theorist.

Life

Schiller came from an Austrian family ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa , who settled in the Polish part of Austria-Hungary in the 19th century . He studied philosophy and Polish philology in Krakow and at the Sorbonne in Paris . At the beginning of his theater career he appeared as a singer in Warsaw cabarets in 1906 and began working as a director at the Polish Theater in Warsaw in 1917 . In 1933 he became head of the directing department of the Warsaw State Drama School (PIST) . During the Second World War in 1941, after the ethnic German Igo Sym was murdered by Poland, he was deported by the German occupiers to Auschwitz-Birkenau and ransomed by his sister for 12,000 złoty . After the war, he returned to his teaching position as head of the drama school in Łódź and remained so until 1949. From 1946 to 1949 he also headed the Teatr Wojska Polskiego in Łódź. Between 1947 and 1949 he was also the editor-in-chief of Teatr magazine . Schiller was a dogmatic communist and pillar of the Stalinist regime in Poland.

The State University of Film, Television and Theater Łódź Leon Schiller is named after him.

Important work

The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill - 1929 in Warsaw
Kordian by Juliusz Słowacki , 1930 in Warsaw
Dead celebration of Adam Mickiewicz - 1932 in Lvov in 1933 in Wilno , 1934 in Warsaw and in 1937 in Sofia
The un-divine comedy by Zygmunt Krasiński , 1938 in Warsaw

literature

Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 305.

Individual proof

↑ The postmaster of Loitsch in Krain, Johannes Schiller , was raised to the nobility in 1745 with the increase of Schildenfeld's name ; J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , 4th volume, 2nd department, ed. by Otto Titan v. Heffner, Verlag Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1859, p. 17.

Web links

Commons : Leon Schiller - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Schiller, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schiller de Schildenfeld, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish theater director and theater theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krakow
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1954
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] The postmaster of Loitsch in Krain, Johannes Schiller , was raised to the nobility in 1745 with the increase of Schildenfeld's name ; J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , 4th volume, 2nd department, ed. by Otto Titan v. Heffner, Verlag Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1859, p. 17.