Kazimierz Dejmek

Kazimierz Dejmek ( born April 17, 1924 in Kovel, Ukraine today, † December 31, 2002 in Warsaw) was a Polish theater director.

During World War II Dejmek fought as a partisan against the German occupation began immediately after the war studied acting in Łódź. In 1950 he was appointed director of the New Theatre in Łódź and led from 1952 to drama school in Łódź. From 1962 to 1968 he was director of the Polish National Theatre in Warsaw. He was released during the student protests in 1968 due to its staging of the funeral of Adam Mickiewicz from his director posts. He was replaced by Adam Hanuszkiewicz. He was expelled from the Polish United Workers Party ( which he belonged since 1951 ) and directed henceforth in the Polish province. Dejmek 1975 was again director of the New Theatre in Łódź. He was called by Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak into politics in 1993 and was until 1996 the Polish Minister of Culture. Then returned to the New Theatre in Łódź. His last production was that of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. A few weeks before the scheduled premiere, he died. The premiere was then in memory of Kazimierz Dejmek place on 30 January 2003. Since 14 January 2008, the New Theatre in Łódź bears his name.

Important productions (as director)

Honors and Awards

  • Theater director
  • Theater director
  • Theater actors
  • Of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Grand Cross )
  • Polish Artists
  • Born in 1924
  • Died in 2002
  • Man
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