Iwo Gall


Iwo Gall was a Polish theater director, stage designer and pedagogue.

Biography

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, then studied in Berlin and Vienna, where during World War I he worked with the Polish theater. After the war he worked at the Teatrze im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie, and then collaborated with Juliusz Osterwa's "Reduta ". He was the director of the Chamber Theater in Czestochowa. During the Nazi occupation he ran a secret drama studio, which was functioning until the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising and from April 1945 resumed operations in Cracow.

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