Barbara Nawratowicz

Barbara Nawratowicz-Stuart (10 November 1932 – 10 May 2024) 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.

Biography She studied law at Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Jagiellonian and Warsaw University and graduated in 1956. In 1951, during the first year of the college, she was imprisoned by the Ministry of Public Security. She has been kept in a small, dark cell for three months, being multiply interrogated and beaten by the officers. After letting free she has been interrogated several times more. In 1952 or 1953 she met Piotr Skrzynecki, a student of art history at the Jagiellonian University. This is how she first made a contact with a group of people who few years later started a cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami in the basement of one of town houses at Rynek. Nawratowicz was the star of the cabaret since the very beginning of its existence, she took part in first shows as an actress. Later she became famous for her roles of Cruel Marquise, Intimate Cocotte, Danish Queen and Dutch Stripper. In Piwnica Nawratowicz met Wiesław Dymny, with whom she stayed in a relationship for few years. Kazimierz Kutz recalled that their love was "full of attachment and jealousy". As an actress she worked at Groteska Theatre in Kraków (1957–1958) and Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce and Radom…Citește mai mult