Henryk Baranowski (9 February 1943 – 27 July 2013) was a Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, stage designer, playwright, screenwriter and poet. He is best known for his starring role in the film '' Dekalog: One'' directed by

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, and also appeared as Rosa's brother Josef in ''

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'' directed by

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and as Napoleon in ''

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'' directed by

Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "P ...

. He directed over 60 theater and opera productions in Europe, Russia and the US and was the Artistic Director of the Teatr Śląski ( Silesian Theatre) in Katowice in the mid 2000s. He also directed four "television theatre" productions: ''...yes I will Yes'' (1992, adapted from '' Ulysses'' by

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), ''For Phaedra'' (1998), ''Saint Witch'' (2003), and ''Night is the Mother of Day'' (2004).

Early life

Baranowski’s father Stanisław Baranowski was a well-known conductor and violinist in the Lviv Philharmonic, and his mother Irena (née Filbert) was the daughter of a Tsarist army officer in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

. They met during the Second World War after the father had been transferred to the Kharkov opera following the Battle of Lwów in 1939. In 1942, the couple attempted to move away from the war torn region to

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, but only got as far as

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. That fall, the father was killed while searching for food by members of the Banderites. Henryk was born in Tarnopol on 9 February 1943, four months after his father's death. In 1944, the Baranowski family was deported to Germany to work in a labor camp near

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, where they remained for the last year of the war. They stayed in the

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for three years, then moved first to Kliczków in

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then to

Bolesławiec Bolesławiec (pronounced , ) is a historic city situated on the Bóbr River in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the administrative seat of Bolesławiec County, and of Gmina Bolesławiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Gm ...

. Baranowski studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław and was a graduate of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw (1968) and the Director's Department at the State Theater School in Warsaw (1973).

Theatre

Baranowski made his directorial debut in 1973 at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw with ''

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'' by

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, and went on to direct several productions in theatres in Poland, including ''Man and Wife'' by

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at the Teatr im. W. Bogusławski in

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; ''Four of Them'' by

Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 25 ...

at the Baltic Drama Theatre in

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; ''

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'' by

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...

and ''

Offending the Audience ''Offending the Audience'' is a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is sometimes called an ''anti-play'' because of its renouncements of theatricality. It was originally published in German under the title ''Publikumsbeschimpfung'' (which bet ...

'' by

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at Teatr Polski in

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; '' Hello and Goodbye'' by

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, '' The Castle'' by

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, ''Princess Ivona'' by

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and '' Forefather's Eve'' by

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at the Theatre Jaracza in

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; '' School for Wives'' by

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at the Teatr Polski in

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

; and ''

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'' by Eugene O’Neill and ''Totenhorn'' by Kazimierz Truchanowski at the Teatr Śląski ( Silesian Theatre) in

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. On the opening night of ''Totenhorn'', Communist Party officials in attendance walked out, and the government shut down the production the next day. A literary conference was taking place nearby, and the writers organized a petition that reversed the decision. Baranowski staged one final production in Poland –

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's ''

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'' at the

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in Warsaw – before leaving the country. Baranowski emigrated to West Berlin in 1980 and rose to prominence in the city's Freie Theater scene, co-founding the company and theatre school TransformTheater Berlin and the International Directing Seminar at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien with Swiss filmmaker Bettina Wilhelm. Baranowski's stage adaptations of works by Joyce, Kafka and Dostoyevsky formed the core of TransformTheater Berlin's repertoire. In the early years, he mounted his productions in Berlin, but once the greater openness that followed the founding of

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had been institutionalized, he renewed his work in Poland. Concurrently, he began working in regional theaters in Germany and internationally. His productions were presented at Berlin's

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, the

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in Lisbon, the Mittelfest in Italy, the European Theatre Festival in Kraków, and numerous other festivals and venues in Poland, Germany, Russia, Italy, Norway and the USA. In the mid-1990s, he moved to a house in

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, a suburb of Warsaw. Baranowski made his English language debut with

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's ''Peepshow'' in Chicago in 1991, which won a

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for Best Ensemble. He went on to direct a number of other productions in the US in New York, Las Vegas, and Knoxville, Tennessee. In May 2001, he made his UK directing debut with an adaptation of

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's ''

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'', produced by The Playground at the

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in London. Baranowski's 2009 production of ''Loneliness on the Net'', adapted from the novel by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski, has remained in the repertoire of the 837-seat Main Stage of the Baltic House in Saint Petersburg, Russia through the 2017/18 season, almost a decade after its premiere.

Opera

Later in his career, Baranowski’s attention turned increasing to opera. His production of

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’ '' Akhnaten'' for the Teatr Wielki in Łodzi won a Silver Boat for Best Production and a Golden Mask for Best Director. His staging of

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's ''Life with an Idiot'' in a co-production by the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and Hahn Produktion in Berlin won three Russian Golden Mask Awards, including Best Production.

Theatre productions (director)

Theatre productions: * 1971 – ''The Maids'' Teatr Ateneum im. S. Jaracza, Warsaw * 1971 – ''School of Wives'' Teatr Polski, Poznań * 1971 – ''The Other Room'' Teatr w Opolu * 1972 – ''Poison, Love, Singing'' (after

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's ''The Two Venetian Twins'') Teatr im. W. Bogusławskiego, Kalisz (also libretto) * 1973 – ''Ghosts'' Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz and Teatr im. Wojciecha Bogusławskiego, Kalisz (also adaptation) * 1974 – ''La Dame aux Camélias'' Bałtycki Teatr Dramatyczny im. Juliusza Słowackiego, Koszalin-Słupsk (also stage adaptation) * 1974 – ''Twins Today''(after

's ''The Two Venetian Twins'') Bałtycki Teatr Dramatyczny im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Koszalinie * 1975 – ''Four of Them'' Bałtycki Teatr Dramatyczny im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Koszalin-Słupsk * 1975 – ''The Maids'' Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz * 1975 – ''Offending the Audience'' Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz * 1975 – ''Life Lines'' stage adaptation of African poetry Estrada, Szczecin * 1975 – ''The Castle'' Teatr im. S. Jaracza, Olsztyn-Elbląg * 1976 – ''Hello and Goodbye'' Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza, Olsztyn-Elbląg * 1976 – ''Princess Ivona'' Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza, Olsztyn-Elbląg * 1977 – ''Forefather's Eve'' Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza, Olsztyn-Elbląg (also stage adaptation) * 1978 – ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' Silesian Theatre, Katowice (also design) * 1978 – ''Totenhorn'' Silesian Theatre, Katowice (also stage adaptation) * 1979 – ''The Source'' Teatr Polski, Szczecin * 1979 – ''The Trial'' Teatr Studio at the

, Warsaw * 1981 – ''The Maids'' TransformTheater Berlin * 1983 – ''Termitière Suprème-Anthropomorphosen'' (site-specific performance in urban plaza, texts by James Joyce) TransformTheater Berlin * 1985 – ''He Who Gets Slapped'' TransformTheater Berlin at the Renaissance Theater, Berli

* 1985 – ''Japanese Games'' TransformTheater Berlin at Künstlerhaus Hanover, tour to Oslo, Bergen and Aarhus * 1985 – ''Despoiled Shore. Medeamaterial. Landscape with Argonauts'' Teatr Studio at the

, Warsaw and Theatermanufaktur Berlin * 1986 – ''King David'' TransformTheater Berlin at za Granicą * 1987 – ''Operetta'' TransformTheater Berlin at

* 1988 – ''Explosion of a Memory'' TransformTheater Berlin at Teatr Studio at the

, Warsaw and Berlin * 1989 – ''The Trial'' Freie Volksbuehne, Berlin, tour to za Granicą Festival and the Rassegna Internationale Teatri Stabili, Florence * 1989 – ''Ghost Sonata'' TransformTheater Berlin at the Oslo International Theater Festival and Bergen International Theater * 1990 – ''Suppressed and Offended'' Omsk Drama Theatre, Siberia and Theater Der Welt at the Grillo-Theater, Essen * 1990 – ''The Old Woman Broods'' TransformTheater Berlin (also adaptation and design) * 1991 – ''...yes I will Yes'' stage adaptation of Joyce's ''Ulysses'' Teatr Szwedzka 2/4, Warsaw (also adaptation and design) * 1991 – ''Peepshow'' TransformTheater Berlin/Facets Performance Studio at Chopin Theatre, Chicago (also design) * 1992 – ''...a way alone a last a loved a long the riverrun'' aka ''Water Dreams of a Shy Monster: a sensuation on James Joyce'' aka ''Bieg rzeki'' stage adaptation of sections of '' Ulysses'', '' Exiles'', ''

Finnegans Wake ''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish literature, Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in instalments starting in 1924, under the title "fragments from ''Work in Progress''". The final title was only revealed when the book was publishe ...

'' and ''Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom'' by Brenda Maddox TransformTheater Berlin at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Polish Cultural Center at Alexanderplatz, Berlin; Sala Sołota / European Theater Festival, Kraków; 'Kontakt' International Theater Festival, Torun; Adam Mickiewicz Theatre, Cieszyn; Theaterhaus Stuttgart; Moscow (also adaptation) * 1992 – ''The Castle'' Teatr Szwedzka 2/4, Warsaw and Cividale Mittelfest (also stage adaptation, stage design and lighting design) * 1992 – ''The Balcony'' Omsk Drama Theatre * 1993 – ''Ghosts'' Instytut Teatru Narodowego, Warsaw (also design) * 1993 – ''Pentesilea'' Kraków (also design) * 1994 – ''Ghetto'' Staatstheater Cottbus * 1995 – ''Peepshow'' Teatr Rozmaitości, Warsaw (also design) * 1996 – ''Black Comedy'' Teatr Bagatela Kraków (also design) * 1996 – ''The Trial'' Teatr Rozmaitości, Warsaw (also design) * 1997 – ''Macbeth'' Theater 2000, Zagreb at Pula Castle * 1997 – ''My Mother/When We Dead Awaken''

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Artaud Festival, Bergen * 1998 – ''White Marriage''

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/New York University * 1998 – ''Mein Kampf'' Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville * 1998 – ''Hess'' Deutsche Nationaltheater, Weimar * 1999 – ''Ghosts'' Clarence Brown Theatre * 1999 – ''Captain Ulysses'' Heidelberg Festival * 2000 – ''The Oresteia'' Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville and Bratislava * 2001 – ''The Balcony'' UNLV University Theatre at the Judy Bayley Theatre * 2001 – ''The Idiot'' The Playground at

, London UK * 2002 – ''The Flies'' Istrapolitana Festival, Bratislava (also adaptation and design) * 2004 – ''Mein Kampf'' Silesian Theatre, Katowice (also design) * 2004 – ''Division By Zero'' Silesian Theatre, Katowice * 2006 – ''Macbeth. Work in Progress.'' Silesian Theatre, Katowice * 2006 – ''The Old Woman Broods'' Teatr Ludowy, Kraków * 2009 – ''Loneliness on the Net'' Baltic House, St. Petersburg, Russia * 2012 – ''The Tempest'' Volkov Theatre, Yaroslavl

Opera productions

Opera productions: * 1993 – ''Die Fledermaus'' Teatr Wielki im. Stanisława Moniuszki, Poznań (also adaptation and lighting design) tour of the Netherlands * 2000 – ''Akhnaten'' Teatr Wielki, Łódź (also design) * 2001 – ''Porgy and Bess'' Teatr Wielki, Łódź * 2003 – ''Life With an Idiot'' Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and Hahn Produktion Toured to Moscow and Rome and to Munich, Magdeburg, and the

Deutsche Oper The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the ...

in Berlin as part of the Russian Culture Days in Germany 2003/4 * 2004 – ''Rigoletto'' Opera Krakowska * 2006 – ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'' Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre * 2007 – ''The Barber of Seville'' Teatr Wielki, Łódź (also adaptation, design) * 2012 – ''The Elixir of Love'' Opera Krakowska (also design)

Television productions

Television productions: * 1992 – ''...yes I will Yes'' (also wrote screenplay) * 1998 – ''For Phaedra'' * 2003 – ''Saint Witch'' * 2004 – ''Night is the Mother of Day''

Selected filmography

Films: * ''Wszystko'' (1972, dir. Piotr Szulkin) * ''

'' Josef, Rosa's brother (1986, dir.

) * ''

Dekalog ''Dekalog'' (, also known as ''Dekalog: The Ten Commandments'' and ''The Decalogue'') is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigni ...

'' Krzysztof (1988, dir.

Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof () is a Polish male given name, equivalent to English ''Christopher''. The name became popular in the 15th century. Its diminutive forms include Krzyś, Krzysiek, and Krzysio; augmentative – Krzychu Individuals named Krzysztof may cho ...

) ** '' Dekalog: One'' ** '' Dekalog: Three'' * ''

'' Napoleon Bonaparte (1999, dir.

)

Radio productions

Radio productions for Teatr Polskiego Radia: * 2011 – ''Dziewanna'' by Jacek Dobrowolski * 2012 – ''A Dream About King David'' by Helmut Kajzar * 2012 – ''Tułacze'' (after '' Exiles'' by

) * 2012 – ''

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'' by

Awards

* 1976 – First prize for ''Hello and Goodbye'' at the Festival of Small-Theatre-Forms "KONTRAPUNKT" in Szczecin * 1976 – First prize for adaptation and direction for ''The Castle'' at the XVIII Festival of North Polish Theatres in Toruń * 1991 – ITI Award for Promotion of Polish Theatre Culture Abroad * 1992 – Award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Outstanding Merit in the Promotion of Polish Culture and Art Abroad * 1992 – Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble for ''Peepshow'', TransformTheater Berlin/Facets Performance Studio * 2000 – Golden Mask for Best Director and Silver Boat for best production for ''Akhnaten'', Teatr Wielki, Łódź * 2004 – Golden Mask for Best Opera Production for ''Life with An Idiot'', Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baranowski, Henryk 1943 births 2013 deaths Polish male film actors Polish theatre directors Writers from Ternopil University of Warsaw alumni Deaths from cancer in Poland