Leon Schiller
1887
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1954
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Austria-Hungary, Poland
languages spoken, written or signed: Polish
educated at: Jagiellonian University, Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School
occupation: theatrical director, playwright, composer, translator, theatre critic
award received: Złoty Wawrzyn Akademicki, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Work Flag Order, 1st class, Gold Cross of Merit (Poland), City of Łódź Award
position held: Member of the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic
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 (then Krakau) under the Austrian rule during the foreign Partitions of Poland, to a family of Austrian origin that had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa. 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). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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