Full Name Stefan Jaracz Known for Dramatic theatre Role Actor | Nationality Polish Name Stefan Jaracz Children Anna Jaraczowna | |
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Born 24 December 1883 Stare Zukowice Died August 11, 1945, Otwock, Poland Spouse Jadwiga Danilowicz-Jaraczowa (m. ?–1945) Movies Ksiezna Lowicka, Mlody Las, Pan Twardowski, Countess Walewska, Obrona Czestochowy Similar People Anna Jaraczowna, Jozef Lejtes, Henryk Szaro | ||
Jego wielka miłość - Napoleon Bonaparte (Stefan Jaracz)
Stefan Jaracz (24 December 1883 – 11 August 1945) was a Polish actor and theater producer. He served as the artistic director of Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw during the interwar period (1930–32), and within a short period raised its reputation as one of the leading voices for Poland's new intelligentsia, with groundbreaking productions of Danton's Death by Georg Buchner (1931), The Captain of Kopenick by Carl Zuckmayer (1932), as well as popular Ladies and Husars (Damy i Huzary) by Aleksander Fredro (1932) and The Open House by Michal Balucki.
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Life
Jaracz was born in Stare Zukowice near Tarnow during the Partitions of Poland. He studied law, history of art, and literature at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, but gave up his studies to join theatre. He moved to Poznan for yet another contract where he was drafted to the Austrian army in 1907. A year later he settled in Lodz where he performed until 1911. He moved to Warsaw in the Russian Partition and worked in Teatr Maly and Teatr Polski (1913). He was sent to Moscow by the Russians (1915). Upon his return to sovereign Poland in 1918 he embarked upon an energetic career in emerging national and experimental theatre, with guest performances in over ninety cities and towns until 1928. In 1930 he took over the Ateneum of Warsaw. He managed it until the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland, sharing the responsibilities with Leon Schiller in 1932–33 season.
During World War II he was arrested and imprisoned at the German Auschwitz concentration camp. Jaracz was released after numerous interventions on 15 May 1941. He died in Otwock, near Warsaw in 1945 due to his ailing health. The repertory Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Lodz, Poland is named after him, and so is the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw since 1951.
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