Tadeusz Fijewski

Tadeusz Fijewski

Tadeusz Fijewski (born July 14, 1911 in Warsaw , Russian Empire , † November 12, 1978 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish actor and victim of National Socialism .

Life

Fijewski began his stage career as a ten-year-old amateur actor in his native Warsaw, six years later he received roles in (still silent) film for the first time. As a young adult he took state acting lessons at the Theater Institute in Sosnowiec and privately with Aleksander Zelwerowicz, one of the "greats" of Polish theater history, in Warsaw until 1936 . Until the attack on Poland in the autumn of 1939, Fijewski was a sought-after theater and film actor, particularly convincing in the roles of cheeky, lively boys (like his newspaper seller in Aleksander Ford's time picture “Legion ulicy” or his hotel boy in “ Dziesiec procent dla mnie ”) was able to. With the capture of Warsaw, the German occupying power largely ended the cultural activities in the Polish capital, closed the theaters and stopped film production.

Tadeusz Fijewski now earned his living as a waiter before he was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp on April 5, 1940 . Inmate No. 24594 stayed there until September 2, 1940, after which he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp . The so-called “ protective prisoner ” Fijewski was finally released on July 19, 1941. He then had to do forced labor for the German rulers . Stranded in the destroyed Germany of 1945, Fijewski began his post-war career as an actor in Lingen im Emsland , but returned to Poland that same year and performed at venues in Thorn and Lodz until 1948 before returning to Warsaw.

There Fijewski was particularly convincing in plays by modern, contemporary authors and was featured as a supporting actor in an abundance of cinema films - one of his first post-war works, Aleksander Ford's " Die Grenzstraße ", dealt with life in Warsaw under the German occupation and the ghetto uprising in 1943 - as well as television production employment. With the title role of the cashier Anatol in three film comedies in the late 1950s, Tadeusz Fijewski reached his peak in popularity.

In 1971, a documentary made in his honor was shown in Polish cinemas under the programmatic name “Aktor Tadeusz Fijewski”.

Filmography

• 1927: Zew morza
• 1928: Kropka nad 'i'
• 1928: Przedwiośnie
• 1928: Dzikuska
• 1929: Ponad śnieg
• 1929: Mocny człowiek
• 1930: Uroda życia
• 1932: The Legion of the Road (Legion ulicy)
• 1932: Dziesiec procent dla mnie
• 1933: Procurator Alicja Horn
• 1934: Córka generała Pankratowa
• 1935: Dwie Joasie
• 1936: Tajemnica panny Brinx
• 1937: Znachor
• 1938: Florian
• 1938: Paweł i Gaweł
• 1939: Kłamstwo Krystyny
• 1946: W chłopskie ręce
• 1948: The border road (Ulica graniczna)
• 1953: Trudna miłość
• 1954: One man's way (Pod gwiazdą frygijską)
• 1954: One generation (Pokolenie)
• 1956: The man in the tailcoat (Nikodem Dyzma)
• 1957: The gangster hat (Kapelusz pana Anatola)
• 1957: The Noose (Pętla)
• 1958: Pan Anatol szuka miliona
• 1958: Kalosze szczęścia
• 1959: Inspekcja Pana Anatola
• 1961: Złoto
• 1962: Dom bez okien
• 1962: Czarne skrzydła
• 1963: The first day of freedom (Pierwszy dzień wolności)
• 1964: Lenin in Poland (Lenin w Polsce)
• 1965: Trzy kroki pro ziemi
• 1965: Czterej Pancerni i pies
• 1967: Katarynka
• 1967: Ojciec
• 1968: The Doll (Lalka)
• 1971: Memory (Spomen)
• 1974: It's spring, Sergeant (Wiosna, panie sierżancie)
• 1975: Nights and Days (Noce i dnie)
• 1975: Kazimierz Wielki
• 1978: Pełnia

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. 114.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Reichow: Film in Poland . With an essay by Stanislaw Janicki. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, Bio-Filmographien, p. 91–153 , here p. 102 .

Web links

• Tadeusz Fijewski in the Internet Movie Database (English)