Leon Schiller
Polish director, critic and theatre theoretician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Polish culture in the Interbellum
Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (14 March 1887 – 25 March 1954) was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician. He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music. He was born in Kraków under the Austrian rule during the foreign Partitions of Poland, to a family of Jewish and Austrian origin that had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.
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Born | Leon Jerzy Wojciech Schiller de Schildenfeld 14 March 1887 |
Died | 25 March 1954(1954-03-25) (aged 67) |
Nationality | Polish |
Known for | Theatre |
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Schiller became famous for his 1934 staging of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady at Warsaw's Teatr Polski (Polish Theatre). This was also presented in Lwów (now Lviv; 1932), Wilno (now Vilnius; 1933) as well as in Sofia in Bulgaria (1937).