Stanisława Przybyszewska (Polish pronunciation: [staɲiˈswava
pʂɨbɨˈʂɛfska]; 1 October 1901 â€" 15 August 1935) was a Polish
dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French
Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict
between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be
one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted
(albeit with significant ideological edits) by Polish filmmaker
Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.Przybyszewska was born
Stanisława Pająkówna on 1 October 1901, in Kraków. She was the
illegitimate child of the Polish impressionist painter Aniela
Pająkówna and the writer Stanisław Przybyszewski, the latter a
famous and notoriously dissolute modernist who was one of the founding
members of the Young Poland movement. From 1902-1906 she lived with
her mother in Lviv. From 1907 to 1916 she lived in Western Europe. As
a child, Przybyszewska traveled across Europe with her mother (Vienna,
Munich, Gries near Bolzano, and Paris). Having lost her mother in 1912
(she died in Paris from pneumonia), she changed cities following her
guardians. Initially her parents' friends Wacław and Zofia
Moraczewski paid for the studies, but from 1914 it was Stanisława's
aunt (her mother's sister) Helena Barlińska who took care of the
girl. Between the ages of ten and fifteen Przybyszewska attended four
different schools in three countries: France (Paris), Switzerland
(Zürich, 1912-1914), and Austria (Vienna and Oberhollabrunn). In
Austria she took violin lessons and began writing poetry and stories
which she destroyed, dissatisfied with her own accomplishments.[1]From
1916 to 1919 she attended the Teachers Institute for Women in Kraków.
Kosicka and Gerould wrote: "(...) she enrolled in the Teachers
Institute, a highly regarded training school, which her mother before
her had attended. Although she was an outstanding student, Stanisława
was sharply critical of both how and what she was taught, and she
considered herself essentially self-educated, since her own special
interests led her to the exact sciences, above all mathematics and
astronomy."[1] As a part of her studies she spent the required year of
teaching practice at the elementary school in Nowy SÄ…cz. She passed
her Gymnasium examinations cum laude in 1920. In August 1919 she met
her father for the first time as an adult; the period of initial
fascination with his ideas did not last long, and later in life
Przybyszewska was very critical about her father's works.In 1920, not
without Przybyszewski’s involvement, Stanisława moved to Poznań
where she established connections with the expressionistic circle of
the journal, The Source, and studied music at the conservatory. She
also enrolled into a philology course at the Poznań University and
for one term followed a diverse curriculum it proposed: the courses of
French and English literature (of the nineteenth and the eighteenth
centuries respectively), medieval literature, history of philosophy,
Spanish, Latin and Greek languages.[2]
pʂɨbɨˈʂɛfska]; 1 October 1901 â€" 15 August 1935) was a Polish
dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French
Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict
between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be
one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted
(albeit with significant ideological edits) by Polish filmmaker
Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.Przybyszewska was born
Stanisława Pająkówna on 1 October 1901, in Kraków. She was the
illegitimate child of the Polish impressionist painter Aniela
Pająkówna and the writer Stanisław Przybyszewski, the latter a
famous and notoriously dissolute modernist who was one of the founding
members of the Young Poland movement. From 1902-1906 she lived with
her mother in Lviv. From 1907 to 1916 she lived in Western Europe. As
a child, Przybyszewska traveled across Europe with her mother (Vienna,
Munich, Gries near Bolzano, and Paris). Having lost her mother in 1912
(she died in Paris from pneumonia), she changed cities following her
guardians. Initially her parents' friends Wacław and Zofia
Moraczewski paid for the studies, but from 1914 it was Stanisława's
aunt (her mother's sister) Helena Barlińska who took care of the
girl. Between the ages of ten and fifteen Przybyszewska attended four
different schools in three countries: France (Paris), Switzerland
(Zürich, 1912-1914), and Austria (Vienna and Oberhollabrunn). In
Austria she took violin lessons and began writing poetry and stories
which she destroyed, dissatisfied with her own accomplishments.[1]From
1916 to 1919 she attended the Teachers Institute for Women in Kraków.
Kosicka and Gerould wrote: "(...) she enrolled in the Teachers
Institute, a highly regarded training school, which her mother before
her had attended. Although she was an outstanding student, Stanisława
was sharply critical of both how and what she was taught, and she
considered herself essentially self-educated, since her own special
interests led her to the exact sciences, above all mathematics and
astronomy."[1] As a part of her studies she spent the required year of
teaching practice at the elementary school in Nowy SÄ…cz. She passed
her Gymnasium examinations cum laude in 1920. In August 1919 she met
her father for the first time as an adult; the period of initial
fascination with his ideas did not last long, and later in life
Przybyszewska was very critical about her father's works.In 1920, not
without Przybyszewski’s involvement, Stanisława moved to Poznań
where she established connections with the expressionistic circle of
the journal, The Source, and studied music at the conservatory. She
also enrolled into a philology course at the Poznań University and
for one term followed a diverse curriculum it proposed: the courses of
French and English literature (of the nineteenth and the eighteenth
centuries respectively), medieval literature, history of philosophy,
Spanish, Latin and Greek languages.[2]
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