Henryk Baranowski Explained

Henryk Baranowski
Birth Date:9 February 1943
Birth Place:Tarnopol, Poland (now Ternopil, Ukraine)
Occupation:Theatre director, actor
Yearsactive:1969–2012

Henryk Baranowski (9 February 1943 – 27 July 2013) was a Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, stage designer, playwright, screenwriter and poet.[1] He is best known for his starring role in the film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski,[2] and also appeared as Rosa's brother Josef in Rosa Luxemburg directed by Margarethe von Trotta[3] and as Napoleon in Pan Tadeusz directed by Andrzej Wajda.[4] He directed over 60 theater and opera productions in Europe, Russia and the US and was the Artistic Director of the Teatr Śląski (Silesian Theatre) in Katowice in the mid 2000s.[5] He also directed four "television theatre" productions: ...yes I will Yes (1992, adapted from Ulysses by James Joyce),[6] For Phaedra (1998),[7] Saint Witch (2003),[8] and Night is the Mother of Day (2004).[9]

Early life

Baranowski’s father Stanisław Baranowski was a well-known conductor and violinist in the Lviv Philharmonic, and his mother Irena (née Filbert) was the daughter of a Tsarist army officer in Kharkiv. They met during the Second World War after the father had been transferred to the Kharkov opera following the Battle of Lwów in 1939. In 1942, the couple attempted to move away from the war torn region to Kraków, but only got as far as Tarnopol. That fall, the father was killed while searching for food by members of the Banderites. Henryk was born in Tarnopol on 9 February 1943, four months after his father's death.[10]

In 1944, the Baranowski family was deported to Germany to work in a labor camp near Bremen, where they remained for the last year of the war. They stayed in the American Zone of Occupation for three years, then moved first to Kliczków in Lower Silesia then to Bolesławiec.

Baranowski studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław and was a graduate of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw (1968) and the Director's Department at the State Theater School in Warsaw (1973).[11]

Theatre

Baranowski made his directorial debut in 1973 at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw with The Maids by Jean Genet, and went on to direct several productions in theatres in Poland, including Man and Wife by Aleksander Fredro at the Teatr im. W. Bogusławski in Kalisz; Four of Them by Gabriela Zapolska at the Baltic Drama Theatre in Koszalin; Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen and Offending the Audience by Peter Handke at Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz; Hello and Goodbye by Athol Fugard, The Castle by Franz Kafka, Princess Ivona by Witold Gombrowicz and Forefather's Eve by Adam Mickiewicz at the Theatre Jaracza in Olsztyn; School for Wives by Molière at the Teatr Polski in Poznań; and Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill and Totenhorn by Kazimierz Truchanowski at the Teatr Śląski (Silesian Theatre) in Katowice.

On the opening night of Totenhorn, Communist Party officials in attendance walked out, and the government shut down the production the next day. A literary conference was taking place nearby, and the writers organized a petition that reversed the decision. Baranowski staged one final production in Poland – Kafka's The Trial at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – before leaving the country.[12]

Baranowski emigrated to West Berlin in 1980 and rose to prominence in the city's Freie Theater scene, co-founding the company and theatre school TransformTheater Berlin and the International Directing Seminar[13] at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien[14] with Swiss filmmaker Bettina Wilhelm.[15]

Baranowski's stage adaptations of works by Joyce, Kafka and Dostoyevsky formed the core of TransformTheater Berlin's repertoire. In the early years, he mounted his productions in Berlin, but once the greater openness that followed the founding of Solidarity had been institutionalized, he renewed his work in Poland. Concurrently, he began working in regional theaters in Germany and internationally. His productions were presented at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Mittelfest in Italy, the European Theatre Festival in Kraków, and numerous other festivals and venues in Poland, Germany, Russia, Italy, Norway and the USA. In the mid-1990s, he moved to a house in Brwinów, a suburb of Warsaw.

Baranowski made his English language debut with George Tabori's Peepshow in Chicago in 1991, which won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble. He went on to direct a number of other productions in the US in New York, Las Vegas, and Knoxville, Tennessee. In May 2001, he made his UK directing debut with an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, produced by The Playground at the Riverside Studios in London.

Baranowski's 2009 production of Loneliness on the Net, adapted from the novel by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski, has remained in the repertoire of the 837-seat Main Stage of the Baltic House in Saint Petersburg, Russia through the 2017/18 season, almost a decade after its premiere.[16]

Opera

Later in his career, Baranowski’s attention turned increasing to opera. His production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten for the Teatr Wielki in Łodzi won a Silver Boat for Best Production and a Golden Mask for Best Director.[17] His staging of Alfred Schnittke's Life with an Idiot in a co-production by the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and Hahn Produktion in Berlin won three Russian Golden Mask Awards, including Best Production.[18]

Theatre productions (director)

Theatre productions:[19] [20]

Opera productions

Opera productions:[20]

Television productions

Television productions:[41]

Selected filmography

Films:[17]

Radio productions

Radio productions for Teatr Polskiego Radia:[42]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zmarł znany reżyser teatralny Henryk Baranowski. Wiadomosci.wp.pl . 28 July 2013.
  2. Web site: Henryk Baranowski . 15 January 2012. filmpolski.
  3. Web site: Rosa Luxemburg (1986). 23 February 2019. www.imdb.com.
  4. Web site: Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania. 23 February 2019. www.imdb.com.
  5. Web site: Henry Baranowski, Former Director of the Silesian Theatre in Katowice, has died. Dziennik Zachodni. 29 May 2018.
  6. Web site: ...TAK CHCĘ TAK. filmpolski.pl. 29 May 2018.
  7. Web site: DLA FEDRY. filmpolski.pl.
  8. Web site: ŚWIĘTA WIEDŹMA. filmpolski.pl.
  9. Web site: NOC JEST MATKĄ DNIA. filmpolski.pl.
  10. Web site: Henryk Baranowski – Director, Stage Designer, Actor. 29 May 2018.
  11. Web site: Bolesławiec says goodbye to Henryk Baranowski . istotne.pl . 30 May 2018.
  12. Web site: Baker. Kit. Henryk Baranowski (9 February 1943 – 27 July 2013). baker's dozen. 29 May 2018.
  13. Web site: Henryk Baranowski, Director . Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft . Transformtheater played in the Zeughofstraße, in the Hasenheide, in the Akademie der Künste, in the TU, in Bethanien. At the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Baranowski co-founded, again with Bettina Wilhelm, the International Film and Theater Director Seminars with lecturers such as Heiner Müller, Andrzej Wajda, Andrej Tarkowski, Ariane Mnouchkine, Patrice Chéreau, Jan Kott, Krzysztof Kieslowski..
  14. Web site: KB | HISTORY.
  15. Web site: Schaper. Rüdiger. Ein weißes Taschentuch ist die ganze Zauberei. Der Tagesspiegel. 29 May 2018.
  16. Web site: Одиночество в Сети (18+) . baltic-house.ru . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170101143315/http://baltic-house.ru/en/theatre/repertoire/390/ . 2017-01-01.
  17. Web site: FilmPolski.pl. FilmPolski.
  18. Web site: Winners 2004. Golden Mask.
  19. Web site: Henryk Baranowski Productions in Poland 1969 – 2003 . slaskie.pl . 2 June 2018 . Downloadable PDF.
  20. Web site: Teatr w Polsce – polski wortal teatralny. www.e-teatr.pl.
  21. Web site: Schiller. Anna. Hucpiarz czy prekursor?. Teatr. 29 May 2018.
  22. Web site: Theater Der Welt Festivalmagazine 1991. 29 May 2018. Page 14.
  23. Web site: Christiansen. Richard. 'Peepshow' Stars Lend Good Acting to Avant Garde. Chicago Tribune. 29 May 2018.
  24. Web site: Reich . York . Das schüchterne Monster: Water dreams of a shy monster« vom Transformtheater im Polnischen Kulturzentrum. taz.de . 30 May 2018.
  25. Web site: James Joyce:Joyceans . The University of Tulsa Archival Catalog. 30 May 2018 . Catalog listing for archival copy of the brochure for "Water Dreams of a Shy Monster: A sensuation on James Joyce".
  26. Web site: Program for "Black Comedy". Teatr Bagatela, Kraków. 30 May 2018.
  27. Web site: Baker. Kit. Macbeth. Project Muse. Johns Hopkins University Press. 29 May 2018.
  28. Web site: Baker. Kit. "Macbeth" in Croatia – Theater 2000 directed by Henryk Baranowski. baker's dozen. 29 May 2018.
  29. Web site: Marvel. James M.. A Reason to Celebrate Mein Kampf. zingmagazine6. 29 May 2018.
  30. Web site: Wren. Celia. 'The Oresteia', Bearer of Many Agendas. New York Times. 30 May 2018.
  31. Web site: UNLV Libraries Digital Collections: Rebel Yell, 2001-03-26, MONDAY EDITION, page 12 . digital.library.unlv.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180614144326/http://digital.library.unlv.edu/objects/reb/29111 . 2018-06-14.
  32. Web site: Archive Listings for The Idiot. UK Theatre Web. 30 May 2018.
  33. Web site: ECHNATON – cult opera . trubadur.pl . 30 May 2018 . Review of 'Achnaten' at the Teatr Wielki 16 March 2000.
  34. Web site: Bakushina . Svetlana . Henryk Baranowski. The Russian Period. . scribd . 30 May 2018 . Personal account of the production of 'Life with an Idiot' at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
  35. Web site: Baker. Kit. "Life with an Idiot" in Novosibirsk – Directed by Henryk Baranowski. baker's dozen. 29 May 2018.
  36. Web site: Hahn Produktion Russische Kulturtage in Germany. www.hahn-produktion.de.
  37. Web site: russische-kulturtage.de – This website is for sale! – russische-kulturtage Resources and Information.. russische-kulturtage.de.
  38. Web site: Grand Performances of 'Rigoletto'. Opera Krakowska . 30 May 2018.
  39. Web site: Shostakovich 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' Conductor Teodor Currentzis, director Henryk Baranowski. YouTube. Svetlana Bakushina Art. 30 May 2018.
  40. Web site: The Elixir of Love . Opera Krakowska. 30 May 2018.
  41. Web site: Teatr w Polsce – polski wortal teatralny. www.e-teatr.pl.
  42. Web site: Teatr w Polsce – polski wortal teatralny. www.e-teatr.pl.

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