Bogumił Kobiela

Bogumil Kobiela ( born May 31, 1931 in Katowice, † July 10, 1969 at Koronowo in Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) ) was a Polish actor.

Life and work

Kobiela, who was one of the greatest actors of his generation and main representatives of the Polish school so-called, which had its center of gravity with important works of the directors Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz in the years of short-term cultural liberalization after 1956 was, after visiting the school actually study economics, then decided in 1949 but yet to visit the State Drama School in Cracow.

In his year of class he learned Zbigniew Cybulski, with whom he formed a lifelong close friendship. After graduating in 1953, a group of students took advantage of the emerging thaw after Stalin's death to the founding of the first student theater of Poland in Gdansk, which existed under the name Bim Bom Teatr until 1958 and also made ​​cabaret. Among the founders were next Kobiela and Cybulski also the author Jacek Fedorowicz and the young Slawomir Mrozek. Your experiences of this time talked Kobiela and Cybulski stuck in a screenplay that Janusz Morgenstern entitled filmed goodbye until tomorrow, 1960 in Gdansk. Kobiela 1961 went to Warsaw, where he played until 1963 at the Teatr Ateneum 1963-1966 in the cabarets and Wagabunda Dudek, from 1966 at the Teatr Komedia.

Kobiela made ​​relatively early a name as a comedy actor. He already had 1953. 1957 he got his first major appearance in Andrzej Munk's film Eroica, a year later, he played the role of Drewnowski in Andrzej Wajda legendary film Ashes and Diamonds His first film role. However, to this day connected with the person Kobielas is the role of the citizen in Piszczyk Andrzej Munk's film The cross-eyed happiness ( Zezowate Szczęście ) from the year 1960. This track also carries a film about Kobiela, which was created in 1996.

Kobiela, who starred in 25 films, died in a traffic accident near Gdansk in 1969, two years after the death of his friend Cybulski. He is buried in Tenczynek in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Filmography