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Moje wspomnienie o Zbigniewie Osińskim (1939–2018)
Zbigniew Osiński studied Polish philology first as an undergraduate and then graduate student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1957–1966). Then he worked at the University as an assistant professor, and later as associate professor (since 1970). It was in Poznań that he first encountered the theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, who became one of the most important subjects of his research. His first book, Teatr Dionizosa (‘The Theatre of Dionysius,’ 1972), explored the Romantic contexts in contemporary Polish theatre. Since 1970 Osiński worked at the University of Warsaw. His habilitation thesis, published as Grotowski i jego Laboratorium (‘Grotowski and his Laboratory,’ 1980), has become a major scholarly contribution and trove of information about Jerzy Grotowski’s theatrical activity. In 1991 Zbigniew Osiński was appointed University of Warsaw Professor, and he received his full professorship in 2000. In 1989 Zbigniew Osiński devised and founded the Ośrodek Badań Twórczości Jerzego Grotowskiego i Poszukiwań Teatralno-Kulturowych (the Centre for the Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and Theatrical and Cultural Explorations) in Wrocław, which he ran until 2004. It later transformed into the Jerzy Grotowski Institute. My recollections of Zbigniew Osiński include his research fascinations: his participation in actions of the Laboratory Theatre and Expeditions of the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Research. He was the author of more than a dozen books that have become substantial contributions to Polish theatre studies on Jerzy Grotowski, the Reduta Theatre, Oriental motifs in Polish culture, and Irena and Tadeusz Byrskis. He also edited the texts and writings of Jerzy Grotowski, Mieczysław Limanowski, Juliusz Osterwa, and Wacław Radulski.
More...Wspomnienie o Joannie Puzynie-Chojce (1969–2018)
The text is an attempt at sketching the professional career and describing other theatre-related activities of Joanna Puzyna-Chojka (1969–2018), a theatre scholar, academic teacher, and most of all, active participant of Polish theatre life. Puzyna-Chojka started working at the University of Gdańsk in 1993. In the twenty-five years of her professional career, she published several hundred articles devoted mostly to the newest dramaturgic strategies, presence of new media in the theatre, and various kinds of theatre realism. She is the author of Gra o zbawienie: o dramatach Tadeusza Słobodzianka (‘Playing for Salvation: On Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Dramas,’ Kraków, 2008) and editor of four multi-author books. Puzyna-Chojka was a prolific theatre critic: she debuted in Dziennik Bałtycki in 1989, and in the next three decades she wrote several hundred theatre reviews and other texts of theatre criticism, publishing in virtually every notable periodical documenting the life of Polish theatre. And finally, Puzyna-Chojka was equally interested in the practical side of running a theatre. She worked as a literary director of the Muzyczny Theatre in Gdynia, the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz, and the Witold Gombrowicz Municipal Theatre in Gdynia and she served as literary director and selectioner of the Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne festival and literary and programme director of the R@port Festival of Contemporary Polish Plays in Gdynia (where she also participated in devising the Gdynia Dramaturgy Award). In the last years she served as the programme director of the Rzeszowskie Spotkania Teatralne – Festiwal Nowego Teatru in Rzeszów. Scholarly work, teaching, theatre criticism, organising scholarly sessions, conferences and debates, and finally working on theatre festival programmes do not make the list of Joanna Puzyna-Chojecka’s professional roles complete. She also hosted meetings with theatre artists and interviewed them after shows (e.g. at the PC Drama project or during the Sopot Two Theatres Festival). Moreover, she set at the Artistic Committee of the All-Polish Contest of Polish Contemporary Play Productions and was a co-founder and supervisor of the student nieUGiętych Theatre.
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