Adam Hanuszkiewicz
Adam Hanuszkiewicz ( born June 16, 1924 in Lvov, Poland, today Ukraine, † December 4, 2011 in Warsaw) was a Polish actor and theater director.
Career
First Hanuszkiewicz was from 1945 a theater actor, but without having attended an acting school. He laid in 1946 from an external spectacle examination before Leon Schiller and was from 1946 to 1949 member of the ensemble Theatre of Juliusz Osterwa in Krakow. His directorial debut was then in 1951 in Poznan.
From 1955 he worked as a director and actor in Warsaw. In the 1960s, he was director of Common Theatre from 1968 to 1982, Director of the Polish National Theatre Teatr Narodowy. He took over the theater after the student riots in 1968 and the dismissal of the current Director Kazimierz Dejmek. During this time his most important and most discussed productions emerged and he was the protagonist of the modern Polish theater director. Hanuszkiewiczs reinterpretations of the classics of Polish Balladyna Juliusz Słowacki until his dramatization of Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz are legendary to this day, but also led to his reputation as an enfant terrible of Polish theater.
From 1989 to 2007 Adam Hanuszkiewicz was artistic director of Warsaw's Teatr Nowy. Successor as artistic director of the theater was Warlikowski.
Adam Hanuszkiewicz was married four times and has received numerous national and international awards for his work throughout his career. In 2001 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in Germany. He spoke fluent Russian, German, English and French.