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Leszek Marek Długosz (18 June 1941 – 23 March 2024) was a Polish actor, poet, writer and composer. For many years he was a member of cabaret "Piwnica pod Baranami", one of the most famous cabarets during the times of People's Republic of Poland.
Leszek Długosz was born in Zaklików on 18 June 1941. He studied at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków (major in Polish studies) and Polish Higher School of Theatre (Polska Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna) (major in acting). He studied music since childhood and started his public performances at the Jagiellonian University's Theatre Hefajstos. In 1963 he won the Student's Song Competition (Festiwal Piosenki Studenckiej) in Kraków, and a year later he joined the cabaret "Piwnica Pod Baranami". His debut as a poet took place in 1973 with the publication of Lekcje Rytmiki. In 1978 he began a career of solo performances. He published many poetry and lyrics books, and issued several CDs. He was the leader of an informal Kraków Poetic Club. He performed around the world.
Długosz died on 23 March 2024, at the age of 82. [1]
Ewa Maria Demarczyk was a Polish singer, generally associated with the sung poetry genre and the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret.
Kraków is considered by many to be the cultural capital of Poland. It was named the European Capital of Culture by the European Union for the year 2000. The city has some of the best museums in the country and several famous theaters. It became the residence of two Polish Nobel laureates in literature: Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz, while a third Nobel laureate, the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić also lived and studied in Krakow. It is also home to one of the world's oldest universities, the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, the oldest Polish fine art academy, established in 1818 and granted full autonomy in 1873.
Zygmunt Konieczny is a Polish composer of theatre and film music.
The Piwnica pod Baranami is a Polish literary cabaret located in Kraków, Poland. For over thirty years, in the People's Republic of Poland, Piwnica pod Baranami served as the most renowned political cabaret in the country, until the end of the communist era. Created by Piotr Skrzynecki in 1956, the cabaret continues its activities, contrary to rumours that it has been closed after the death of its founder in 1997. It resides at its original location in the medieval Old Town district, at the Main Market Square.
Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz is a Polish composer and musician, known for his collaboration with Marek Grechuta and his compositions for stage and film.
Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko h. Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy.
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków.
Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.
Mirosław Obłoński was a Polish writer, poet, singer, and artist associated with the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret.
Piotr Cezary Skrzynecki was a Polish choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, known for his involvement with the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami, of which he was the founder.
Jan Güntner is a Polish stage and film actor and director.
Barbara Nawratowicz-Stuart was a Polish actress and radio journalist. She was one of the first stars of Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret and a long-time presenter at Polish section of Radio Free Europe.
Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter.
Andrzej Maj was a Polish film and theatre director active in Kraków, known mainly for directing several TV plays.
Bogusław Bachorczyk is a Polish painter, draftsman and sculptor.
Witold Wnuk is a Polish music impresario and cellist. As well as the cello, he plays the piano and drums. During his career he taught in the Middle-East, and has organised many competitions and festivals in his native Poland.
Events during the year 1997 in Poland.
Wanda Małolepsza, known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz".
Anna Małgorzata Szałapak (1952–2017) was a Polish ethnographer, ethnologist, singer, and performer of sung poetry, particularly at the Piwnica pod Baranami literary cabaret in Kraków.
Elżbieta Zechenter-Spławińska is a Polish poet, translator, prose writer, and teacher. Between 1972 and 1976 she was the literary director of the State Puppet Theatre Rabcio in Rabka-Zdrój and between 1978 and 1987 the director of the Animated Film Studio in Kraków.
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