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Szajna, Józef

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Personal name headingSzajna, Józef
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Teatr Studio (Warsaw, Poland)
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Other standard no.64015038
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Associated countryPoland
LocatedKraków (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)
Birth date1922-03-13
Death date2008-06-24
Place of birthRzeszów (Poland)
Place of deathWarsaw (Poland)
Field of activityDrama Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery Theater--Production and direction Choreography Painting Drawing
AffiliationTeatr Ludowy (Kraków, Poland) Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie
Profession or occupationDramatists Set designers Theatrical producers and directors Choreographers Painters Graphic artists
Special noteChoreographer. Founder and artistic director of Teatr Studio, Warsaw.
Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in*MGZR Szajna, Jozef. Clippings.
Józef Szajna i jego świat, 2000: p. 188 (b. Mar. 13, 1922)
Józef Szajna i jego teatr, 1985.
New York times WWW site, June 30, 2008 (Jozef Szajna; b. Mar. 13, 1922, Rzeszow; d. Tuesday [June 24, 2008], Warsaw, aged 86; Polish playwright, set designer, and theater director who through often nearly wordless productions evoked the beastliness of humanity, the suffocation of individuality, and the oppressiveness of dictatorship, gaining acclaim even during the Communist era)
Madeyski, Jerzy. Józef Szajna, 1970: page 7 (Józef Szajna, born 1922 in Rzeszów; painter, graphic artist, set designer, director; lives and works in Krakow; during German occupation interned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; affiliated with Teatr w Nowej Hucie [Teatr Ludowy], Stary Teatr in Krakow)