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Grażyna
Grażyna is a Polish feminine given name. The name was created by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for the main character of his 1823 poem '' Grażyna''. The name is derived from the Lithuanian adjective ''gražus'', meaning "pretty", "beautiful".April 1 a name day for Grażyna s/s include Grasia, Grazia, Grażynka, Grażka, Grażusia. In Polish tradition, the s for Grażyna are April 1 and July 26. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century. Life Bacewicz was born in Łódź. Her father and her brother Vytautas, also a composer, identified as Lithuanian and used the last name Bacevičius; her other brother Kiejstut identified as Polish. Her father, Wincenty Bacewicz, gave Grażyna her first piano and violin lessons. In 1928 she began studying at the Warsaw Conservatory, where she studied violin with Józef Jarzębski and piano with Józef Turczyński, and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski, graduating in 1932 as a violinist and composer. She continued her education in Paris, having been granted a stipend by Ignacy Jan Paderewski to attend the École Normale de Musique, and studied there in 1932–33 with Nadia Boulanger (composition) and André Toure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Szapołowska
Grażyna Szapołowska (; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. Life and career She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent. She has a sister, Lidia, who is 11 years older. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw. She starred in Károly Makk's 1982 Hungarian film '' Another Way'' which portrays a lesbian relationship, ''A Short Film About Love'' (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of ''Dekalog''. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. For that role she received the Polish Film Award at the 13th Gdynia Film Festival. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" ( pl, Trzej Wieszcze) and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard". A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe. He is known chiefly for the poetic drama ''Dziady'' (''Forefathers' Eve'') and the national epic poem '' Pan Tadeusz''. His other influential works include '' Konrad Wallenrod'' and '' Grażyna''. All these served as inspiration for uprisings against the three imperial powers that had partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth out of existence. Mickiewicz was born in the Russian-partitioned territories of the former G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Miller
Grażyna Miller (29 January 1957 – 17 August 2009)Żegnamy tłumaczkę „Tryptyku rzymskiego” was a Polish poet and translator who lived in Italy. Miller lived in where she wrote poems and translated publications from Polish into Italian. She was also a literary critic whose work was published by the most prestigious Italian press media. Her most notable accomplishment was the translation of "" (Trittico romano (Meditazioni) by |
Grażyna Ciemniak
Grażyna Jolanta Ciemniak (born 20 June 1948) is a Polish political figure who has been a member of the Senate of Poland (1993–97) and Deputy President of Bydgoszcz (1998–2001), as well as member of the Sejm of Poland (2001–07, since 2009) and member of the European Parliament (2004). A native of the northern city of Toruń, the co-capital and assembly location of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Grażyna Ciemniak initially gained her Senate seat in the 1993 parliamentary election. While not in the Sejm during its 1997–2001 term, she served, in 1998–2001, as Deputy President of Bydgoszcz, a position subject to election by the Bydgoszcz City Council. In 2001 Polish parliamentary election, she campaigned for the Sejm IV term from Bydgoszcz district 4 as candidate from the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union (SLD-UP) list and was elected with 8,212 votes. Between April 2003 (signed of Treaty of Accession 2003) and 31 April 2004, Grażyna Ciemniak was an observer re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Kulczyk
Grażyna Kulczyk (born 5 November 1950) is a Polish investor, art collector and philanthropist. Education and career She graduated in law and administration from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Upon finishing her studies, she began to work in the Civil Law Institute at her alma mater. After a few years, she resigned and decided to pursue a career in business. Her areas of interest and art commissions combine a number of themes. She is a champion of contemporary art and supporter of avant-garde choreography while also supporting development of new technology and start-ups working to change the world. She is particularly engaged in supporting entrepreneurship among women as well as the equal presence of women in STEM. As a member of the Russia and Eastern Europe Acquisitions Committee, Ms. Kulczyk supports London's Tate Modern. She joined the board of the Modern Women's Fund Committee of the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2015, and has been a board member of Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Auguścik
Grażyna Auguścik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer, and arranger.''River'' CD. 2001 Grażyna Auguścik/GMA RecordsGrażyna Auguścik's web site http://www.grazynaauguscik.com/ She frequently uses Polish folk music, Latin American music, and klezmer music. Career Grażyna studied guitar in her native Słupsk, Poland. Later she studied singing, graduating in 1992 from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her singing debut took place in 1977 at a festival in Toruń. At the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1979 she won in the category of first-time contestants. In 1981, she won prizes at the Student Festival of Song in Kraków and at the Festival of Traditional Jazz "Złota Tarka" in Warsaw. In 1988, Grażyna moved to the United States, where she has performed with Michał Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Patricia Barber, Paul Wertico, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Callier, John McLean, Kurt Rosenwinke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna (poem)
''Grażyna'' is an 1823 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in the summer of 1822 during a year-long sabbatical in Vilnius, while away from his teaching duties in Kaunas.Roman Robert Koropeckyj ''Adam Mickiewicz: the life of a romantic''.''Cornell University Press'', 2008. Page 35. . Probably his first notable work. The poem describes the exploits of a mythical Lithuanians, Lithuanian chieftainess Grażyna ( lt, Gražina) against the forces of the medieval Order of the Teutonic Knights. The woman character is believed to have been based on Mickiewicz's own sweetheart from Kaunas, Karolina Kowalska. The name was originally conceived by Mickiewicz himself, having used the Root (linguistics), root of the Lithuanian adjective ''graži'', meaning "beautiful".April 1 a name-day for Grażyna, #53 in Poland among the most popular names It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Brodzińska
Grażyna Brodzińska née Wayda (b. May 5, 1951 in Cracow) is a Polish soprano, opera and operetta singer, and musical actress, nicknamed ''The First Lady of Polish Operetta. Biography Brodzińska was born on May 5, 1951, in Cracow, the daughter of director Edmund Wayda and opera singer Irena Brodzińska. In 1960s she graduated from Danuta Baduszkowa's Actors Studio in Gdynia. Grażyna Brodzińska performed at Musical Theatre in Gdynia (1969–1976) and later at Musical Theatre in Szczecin, Warsaw Operetta and Roma Theatre in Warsaw. Since 2002 Brodzińska is an actress of Silesian Operetta in Gliwice Gliwice (; german: Gleiwitz) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (a tributary of the Oder). It lies approximately 25 km west from Katowice, the regional cap .... Discography * 2008 ''Sway – Kołysz mnie'' * 2002 ''Śpiewaj, kochaj'' * 1999 ''Najpiękniejsze kolędy'' * 1998 ''Pardon M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Vetulani
Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani née Świerczyńska (born 15 March 1956) is a Polish philologist and linguist, professor of the humanities, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography She is a daughter of Hieronim Świerczyński and Regina Kocińska. In 1979 she graduated in Romance studies from Adam Mickiewicz University. She received a PhD in 1988. On 17 June 2013 she received the title of full professor. Since 1979 Grażyna Vetulani works at the Adam Mickieiwcz University in Poznań. She is a Head of Department of Contrastive Linguistics since 2000. Since 2008 she is a member of the University Senate. Vetulani is an author of a number of scientific publications (including three books) on general, contrastive and computer linguistics and semantics. She was an editor of four joint studies. She participated as a speaker in scientific conferences several times, including events in Prague, Ljubljana, Athens, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Kostrzewińska
Grażyna Maria Kostrzewińska, née Osmańska (born 26 November 1950 in Toruń) is a Polish former pair skater. With Adam Brodecki, she placed 11th at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit .... From 1972, she competed as Grażyna Kostrzewińska, having married footballer Zdzisław Kostrzewiński in 1971. Results With Brodecki With Górecki References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kostrzewinska, Grazyna 1950 births Polish female pair skaters Olympic figure skaters of Poland Living people Sportspeople from Toruń Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Gęsicka
Grażyna Gęsicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006 - 2007) minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's government. From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus. She was born in Warsaw. In 1974 she graduated from Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and in 1985 received her doctorate. She was a former member of the Polish Sociological Society and the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise. She was a speaker of English and French. She was listed on the flight manifest of the |
