Henryk Tomaszewski (mime)
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Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig (20 November 1919 – 23 September 2001) was a Polish mime artist and theatre director.
Biography
Tomaszewski was born in Poznań, Poland. He settled in Kraków in 1945 to study theatre after the end of World War II during which he studied at Iwo Gall's Theatre Studio from 1945 to 1947 and ballet under Feliks Parnell. Tomaszewski left Parnell's company in 1949 and resettled in Wrocław, where he worked as a ballet dancer in the Opera and already there began to develop his own concept of mime.
In 1956, Tomaszewski's Mime Studio had its premiere performance at the Polski Theatre in Wrocław. In 1958, the Mime Studio was renamed the Wroclaw Mime Theatre and was granted the status of State theatre in 1959. Tomaszewski ceased performing in the mid-1960s but continued to direct, train, and choreograph the ensemble and all productions.
Tomaszewski's conceptions of mime technique are modern much in the same way as
Notable students and members of his company include
Tomaszewski's early work is documented in English in "Tomaszewski's Mime Theatre" by Andrzej Hausbrandt (Poland: Interpress, 1975).
Between 1960 and 1966, he collaborated with the
References
- ^ Wojciech Szymański and Tomasz Wysocki "Henryk Tomaszewski współpracował z SB". Gazeta Wyborcza, no. 108 (9 May 2007) (Accessed 4 June 2013).