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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 Vetulani
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 of Lithuanian origin. 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 on February 5, 1909 to parents Maria and Vincas (Wicenty) Bacewicz. Her father, having been from Lithuania, instilled a deep connection to their Lithuanian heritage, despite changing his name from the Lithuanian Bacevičius to Bacewicz. He also was her first music teacher, and insisted all four of their children study violin, piano, and fundamental music theory from a young age. Grażyna was the third of four children, with two older brothers, Kiejstut and Vytuatas, and one younger sister, Wanda. Vytautas identified as Lithuanian, using his father's original last name (Bacevičius), and also became an accomplished pianist and composer. Grażyna performed her f ... [...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 film, ... [...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. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's " Three Bards" () 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-parti ... [...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 " Roman Triptych" (Trittico romano (Meditazioni) by ). This book wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Kulczyk
Grażyna Maria Kulczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 November 1950) is a Polish lawyer, investor, art collector and philanthropist. In 2015, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her contributions to Polish culture and the promotion of Polish art. 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. She is a supporter of contemporary art, avant-garde choreography and new technology and start-ups. She is particularly engaged in supporting entrepreneurship among women as well as the equal presence of women in STEM. 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 Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw for almost 10 years. In 2017, ARTnews magazin ... [...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 (musician), Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Patricia Barber, Paul Wertico, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Callier, Jackie M ... [...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) Ministry of Regional Development of the Republic of Poland, minister of Regional Development in Cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Marcinkiewicz's and cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński, Jarosław Kaczyński's government. In 2007 she was elected to the Sejm. 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 language, English and French language, French. She was listed on the flight manifest [...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 Kowno.Roman Robert Koropeckyj ''Adam Mickiewicz: the life of a romantic''.''Cornell University Press'', 2008. Page 35. . The poem describes the exploits of a mythical Lithuanian chieftainess Grażyna () 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 of the Lithuanian adjective ''graži'', meaning "beautiful".April 1 a name-day for Grażyna, #53 in Poland among the most popular names It was said by Polish writer Christien Ostrowski to have inspired [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda Grażyna Gałecka-Szmurło
Wanda Grażyna Gałecka-Szmurło (21 August 1899 in Warsaw – 10 January 1993) was a Polish lawyer, independence and social activist. She was the second woman in Poland who was entered on the list of lawyers. She conducted intensive social and journalistic activities in the field of law, she also participated in legislative works in the field of matrimonial property law. Advocate Wanda Grażyna Szmurło was appointed by the Minister of National Defense Janusz Onyszkiewicz Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (, born 18 December 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist and politician,Europa Publications, "The International Who's Who 2004", Routledge, 2003pg. 1258/ref> who served as Minister of Defence twice, in the cabinets ... (by order of 3 July 1992) a second lieutenant in the Polish Army. References 1899 births 1993 deaths Lawyers from Warsaw 20th-century Polish women lawyers {{Poland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Brodzińska
Grażyna Brodzińska (née Wayda; born May 5, 1951) is a Polish soprano singer in opera and operetta, and musical actress, nicknamed "The First Lady of Polish Operetta". Biography Brodzińska was born on May 5, 1951, in Kraków, 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. Discography * 2008 ''Sway – Kołysz mnie'' * 2002 ''Śpiewaj, kochaj'' * 1999 ''Najpiękniejsze kolędy'' * 1998 ''Pardon Madame'' * 1997 ''Jestem zakochana – 12 najpiękniejszych arii operetkowych'' References External links Official website 1951 births 20th-century Polish actresses Actresses from Kraków Ballad musicians Living people Musicians from Kraków ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
