He worked in the editorial offices of the „Literary Life” and was literary director of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatere in Kraków. He initiated a discussion on the schematic nature of socio-realism (1952). In 1953 he signed the ZLP resolution pertaining to the court case of the Kraków priests. His literary debut „The Head and the Wall” was seized by the PRL censors and destroyed. Between 1980 and 1982 he was director of the Laboratory Theatre. From 1984 he has lived in Paris. He works as a theatre director (among his productions is Dostoyevski’s „The Possessed”, Teatr Stary, Kraków 1995)
Ludwik Flaszen
April 27, 2012, 1:55 p.m.
(born 1930) - theatre critic, writer, essayist, theatre director, co-worker of Jerzy Grotowski, co-founder and literary director of the Theatre of the 13th Row (later the Laboratory Theatre). Born in Kraków in a Jewish family, he spent the second world war in the Soviet Union.