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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period.
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culture · Polish writer and artist (1885–1939) · playwright · philosopher · writer · photographer · painter · poet · art theorist · art historian · also Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, St. I. Witkiewicz, S. I. Witkiewicz, Witkacy, Stanislav Ignat︠s︡iĭ Vitkevich, Stanisław I. Witkiewicz
Born 24 February 1885 · Died 18 September 1939 · Q381238
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Witkacy - Where to Watch
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2019· 1 entry
Witkacy/Two-Headed Calf, a collaboration between CalArts Center for New Performance and STUDIO teatrgaleria, Warsaw, was directed by Natalia Korczakowska
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2013· 2 entries
culture.pl: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Listy do żony (1936–1939)"
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POLITYKA: Recenzja książki: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Listy do żony. Tom IV (1936–1939)"
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2010· 1 entry
And Witkacy and Malinowski: a cinematic séance in 23 scenes 2018
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2007· 1 entry
POLITYKA: Recenzja książki: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Listy do żony"
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2005· 1 entry
culture.pl: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Dramaty III"
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2003· 1 entry
Also under O'Harra's direction and also a New York premier
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1989· 1 entry
By The Cosmic Bicycle Theatre at the Summer Music from Greensborough, a Classical Music Festival in Greensborough, Vermont, and in Boston, at The Charlestown Working Theatre
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1984· 1 entry
The New York premiere of The Shoemakers (Szewcy) was presented by the Jean Cocteau Repertory under the direction of Włodzimierz Herman in 1987
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1979· 1 entry
Under the direction of Paul Berman and The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna) directed by Brad Mays were staged by the Theatre Off-Park, in 1983
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-09-18.
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1935· 2 entries
Won Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature (1935).
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Was awarded the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature for his novels
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1934· 1 entry
Finishes perhaps his most famous literary work, the drama Szewcy, finally published in 1948
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1914· 1 entry
Following a crisis in Witkiewicz's personal life due to the suicide of his fiancée Jadwiga Janczewska, for which he blamed himself, he was invited by Malinowski to act as draftsman and photographer on his anthropological
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-02-24.
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