Olga Lipińska (born 6 April 1939 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) is a Polish theatre director, screenwriter, and TV comedy producer, best known for her TV cabaret called the

Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej is a long series of TV shows directed by Warsaw theatre director and satirical artist Olga Lipińska.Wojciech Krzyżaniak Właśnie wraca kabarecik.''Gazeta Wyborcza'', 11 June 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2012. The cabaret was ...

(Cabaret of Olga Lipińska).

Biography

She graduated in 1964 from the Faculty of Directing at the Warsaw Theatre Academy (then, '' Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna'') where she was associated with the Student Satirical Theatre. Between 1977–1990 she was an executive producer at the ''Teatr Komedia'' in Warsaw. Lipińska began her TV career as director considerably early. In 1973 she produced ''Damy i huzary'' by

Aleksander Fredro Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse ('' Zemst ...

, followed by TV production of play by Ivo Brešan in 1985, and more Polish dramas by Fredro: ''Gwałtu, co się dzieje'' (1992), ''Zemsta'' (1994); ''Baryłeczka'' by

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(1995), ''Ja się nie boję braci Rojek'' by

Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (23 January 1905 – 6 December 1953), alias ''Karakuliambro'', was a Polish poet. He is well known for the "paradramatic" absurd humorous sketches of the ''Green Goose Theatre''. Biography Born to a lower-mid ...

(2003) and an opera ''Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i górale'' by

Wojciech Bogusławski Wojciech Romuald Bogusławski (9 April 1757 – 23 July 1829) was a Polish actor, theater director and playwright of the Polish Enlightenment. He was the director of the National Theatre, Warsaw, (''Teatr Narodowy''), during three distinct peri ...

in 2007. At the same time, Lipińska produced satirical cabarets for

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including: ''Głupia sprawa'' (10 episodes, 1968–1970), ''Gallux Show'' (10 episodes, 1970–1974), ''Właśnie leci kabarecik'' (10 episodes, 1975–1977), ''Kurtyna w górę'' (18 episodes, 1977–1981) and finally, her best-known and most important

. Between 1990 and 1992 she run a talk-show for

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called ''Piosenki z Kabaretu Olgi Lipińskiej'' (Songs of Olga Lipińska cabaret).

Media

In the 2009 interview for ''

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'' magazine conducted by Piotr Najsztub in Warsaw, which marked her cabaret's return to the airwaves, Lipińska said that all she really wanted was to make the world a better place; there was no communism to begin with – she said – only the Soviet-style socialism which was bound to collapse. In the

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she wanted to inform the public about the real state of affairs, because – as Lipińska said, 70 percent of viewers according to survey, could not make sense of the weather-report on state television. However, she is not pleased with what happened after the

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, especially about the new-found religiousness visible across the country and the capitalist economy which makes everyone fear for their own unknown future. For over a dozen years, Lipińska was regularly publishing essays on culture in '' Twój Styl'' magazine leading to her own book of collected essays called ''Mój pamiętnik potoczny'' (My

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memoir) published in 2005. Her second book of commentaries on arts, culture and politics entitled ''Co by tu jeszcze...'' (What else...) was published in 2009. Lipińska is the recipient of numerous medals and awards including the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

(Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) and the Cross of Merit (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi). Olga Lipińska, odznaczenia.
Polski portal teatralny ''e-teatr.pl''. Retrieved June 18, 2012.

References

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