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Zbigniew Raszewski (5 April 1925, Poznań) was a Polish writer and theatre historian.
Shortly after his birth his family moved to Bydgoszcz, where he spent his childhood and youth. He wrote one of the best books on the town, and more broadly on Polish-German relations there, in the form of Pamiętnik gapia. Bydgoszcz, jaką pamiętam z lat 1930-1945 Wyd. Pomorze Bydgoszcz., a compendium of memoirs.
In 1945 - 1949, he studied Polish at the University of Poznań, later becoming an assistant at the university. He moved to Warsaw and was involved with the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as becoming a professor at the Warsaw Theater School in Zelwerowicza.
Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz, was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator. He is recognized for his literary achievements, beginning with poetry and prose written after World War I. After 1989, he was often presented as a political opportunist during his mature years lived in communist Poland, where he held high offices. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. In 1988, he was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations for his role in sheltering Jews during World War II.
Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld 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.
Miron Białoszewski was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
Maria Kownacka (1894–1982) was a Polish writer, translator and editor, specializing in children's literature. She was a long-time writer of Płomyk. Her best-known work is the series of books about "Plastuś", that began with Plastusiowy pamiętnik (1936).
Antoni Wereszczyński was a Colonel in the Polish Army.
Andrzej Bogucki was a Polish television, stage and film actor, as well as operetta singer and songwriter, sometimes referred to as "The Polish Chevalier".
Jan Lorentowicz was a Polish theatre director, literary critic, publicist, editor and book collector; president of the Polish PEN Club (1925–27); and from 1938, an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.
Józef Kostecki was a Polish actor. A 1948 graduate of the Theatre Academy of Warsaw, he is best known for his role of Grand Duke Vytautas in Aleksander Ford's Knights of the Teutonic Order.
The Municipal Theatre of Bydgoszcz is a former theatre building which stood in Bydgoszcz, Poland from 1896 to 1946.
The Polish theatre or Polish: Polski Teatr of Bydgoszcz has been established in 1949, at 2 Adam Mickiewicz Alley, in downtown district. It is the outcome of a long and rich tradition of plays and performance in the city.
Halina Rapacka was a Polish actress who in 1921–1922 and 1923–25 played operettas at the City Theaters in Lwów. In May 1931 Rapacka performed in the Metropolis theater in Poznań.
Adam Franciszek Józef Siedlecki or Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki (AGS) (1876–1967) was a Polish literary and theater critic, playwright, translator, prose writer and director.
Józef Weyssenhoff was a Polish novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher. Close to the National Democracy political movement after 1905, he paid tribute to the tradition of the Polish landed gentry in the Eastern Borderlands. He lived several years in Bydgoszcz in the 1920s.
Teofil Magdziński (1818-1889) was a Polish lawyer, conspirator, activist in exile who participated in several Polish uprisings of the second half of the 19th century. He was one of the most prominent politician in Bydgoszcz, representative at the Reichstag and a staunch defender of Polishness.
Ryszard Jaśniewicz was a Polish actor, director, playwright, poet and educator. He worked in Polish drama theaters in Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Słupsk and most of the time with the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk. In 1999, together with his wife, Gabriela Pewińska-Jaśniewicz, he founded Teatr z Polski 6 and staged 17 monodramas. Since 2008, the theater has been working in House of Plague in Gdańsk.
Karol Benda – Polish theatre and film actor and director.
Konrad Ksawery Swinarski – Polish theatrical, television, film and opera director and stage designer.
Józef Makowski (1914–1997), was a Polish sculptor and painter whose works are associated with Bydgoszcz.
Stanisław Szymański was Polish ballet dancer. In the years 1967–1985, he was the premier danseur of the Grand Theatre, Warsaw.
Union of Polish Stage Artists(Związek Artystów Scen Polskich ZASP – Stowarzyszenie) is a Polish union established 21 December 1918, during Constitutional Congress in Rozmaitości Theater in Warsaw. First chair was Józef Śliwicki. The statute of the Union was signed, among others, by: Stefan Jaracz, Juliusz Osterwa and Aleksander Zelwerowicz.