Karol Benda

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Karol Benda (born Karol Spitzbarth on 17 February 1893 in Warsaw; died 25 August 1942 in Warsaw) was a Polish theatre and film actor and director.

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Bibliography Słownik biograficzny teatru polskiego (red. Z. Raszewski), Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1973 p. 27

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Life He was the son of the architect Artur Otto Spitzbarth and Aleksandra née Dunin-Borkowski; his brother was the architect Artur Jerzy Spitzbarth. He studied acting under Stanisław Stanisławski in Kraków. At the same time, he studied at the Jagiellonian University, and in December 1912 he appeared in the performance of the Academic Classical Drama Lovers. He made his debut on 3 May 1913 under the name Karol Benda on the stage of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in the role of the Groom in Stanisław Wyspiański's The Wedding. The pseudonym he adopted at that time became a permanent stage name. In May 1915 he went to Vienna, where he played at the local Polish Theatre. After a year he returned to Krakow and during the 1916/1917 season he played at the Słowacki Theatre, and then left for Warsaw, where in the 1917/1918 season he was hired by the Polish Theatre. He spent the next season in Łódź, in order to play on the stages of Warsaw's City Theatres (Teatr Rozmaitości, Teatr Reduta, Teatr Dramatyczny) from February 1919 to 1924. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Municipal Theatre in Toruń. The following year, initiating the merger of three stages…Citește mai mult