Stefania GrodzieÅ„ska ( September â€" April ) was a Polish writer,
stage and theatrical actress during the Interbellum; dancer, radio
announcer, and satirist known as the First Lady of Polish
Humor.Grodzieńska was born in Šódź to a family of a university
professor during the final years of the Russian imperial possession.
She spent some of her childhood in Moscow, and attended a ballet
school in Berlin. She married for the first time at the age of and
moved to Warsaw in . She worked in Cyganeria Theatre, and danced in
Teatr Kameralny (Intimate Theatre). Soon, dir. Fryderyk Jarosy brought
her into the staff of Cyrulik Warszawski, a Polish satirical theatre.
Grodzieńska met there her second husband, writer Jerzy Jurandot whom
she married in . During the Nazi German occupation of Poland they
lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, but escaped before the murderous
Grossaktion Warsaw of .After World War II she started writing
feuilletons for the Polish satirical magazine Szpilki, she also wrote
many monologues and sketches. Her essays were performed by Hanka
Bielicka, Adolf Dymsza, Loda Halama, Alina Janowska, Kalina Jędrusik,
Bogumił Kobiela, Irena Kwiatkowska and others. For several years
Stefania Grodzieńska was working in Polskie Radio, and then for a
couple of years in entertainment section of Telewizja Polska.
stage and theatrical actress during the Interbellum; dancer, radio
announcer, and satirist known as the First Lady of Polish
Humor.Grodzieńska was born in Šódź to a family of a university
professor during the final years of the Russian imperial possession.
She spent some of her childhood in Moscow, and attended a ballet
school in Berlin. She married for the first time at the age of and
moved to Warsaw in . She worked in Cyganeria Theatre, and danced in
Teatr Kameralny (Intimate Theatre). Soon, dir. Fryderyk Jarosy brought
her into the staff of Cyrulik Warszawski, a Polish satirical theatre.
Grodzieńska met there her second husband, writer Jerzy Jurandot whom
she married in . During the Nazi German occupation of Poland they
lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, but escaped before the murderous
Grossaktion Warsaw of .After World War II she started writing
feuilletons for the Polish satirical magazine Szpilki, she also wrote
many monologues and sketches. Her essays were performed by Hanka
Bielicka, Adolf Dymsza, Loda Halama, Alina Janowska, Kalina Jędrusik,
Bogumił Kobiela, Irena Kwiatkowska and others. For several years
Stefania Grodzieńska was working in Polskie Radio, and then for a
couple of years in entertainment section of Telewizja Polska.
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