Braun became a tenured professor at the University at Buffalo in 1989. He made his debut as a professional theatre director in 1961,and as a professional television director in 1962. He has directed works at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw,Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk,the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków,and Teatr Solskiego in Tarnów,as well as in Canada,Germany,Ireland,and the United States. He was the artistic director of Teatr Osterwy in Lublin from 1967 to 1971,and general and artistic director there from 1971 to 1974. He was general and artistic director of the Contemporary Theatre in Wrocław from 1975 to 1984,but was fired by the Communist authorities because of his oppositional activities.
Braun's father,Juliusz Braun,was a lawyer,professor of ecology,Catholic activist,and political prisoner under Joseph Stalin. His mother was Elżbieta Korwin-Szymanowska. They both died in 1990.
Braun is married to Zofia Reklewska-Braun,a writer and theatre historian. They have three children (Dr. Monika Braun,a writer and academic;Grzegorz Braun,a politician;and Dr. Justyna Braun,an academic) and five granddaughters (Anna,Joanna,Aniela,Zofia,and Elżbieta).
Credits
Between 1961 and 2016 Braun directed 155 theatre productions in Poland,the United States,Canada,the Republic of Ireland,Germany and other countries,including:[5]
1961:Karol /On the Sea /Strip-tease (Sławomir Mrożek),Gdańsk
1962:The Ring of a Great Lady (Cyprian Norwid),Warsaw
2011:Commander's Cross of the Polish Order of Merit
2016 Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta
References
↑ Kto jest kim w Polsce, Edycja 1, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Interpress, 1984, p. 88-89. Edycja 2, 1989, p.127. Edycja 3, 1993, p. 75. Edycja 4, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo PAI, 2001, s. 81-82; Kto jest kim we Wrocławiu, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo FOX, 1999, p. 43-44. Marta Fik, Trzydzieści pięć sezonów, Warszawa: WAiF, 1981. p. 291; Informator Nauki Polskiej. Uczeni polscy za granicą,vol. 5, Warszawa: Ośrodek Przetwarzania Informacji, 2006, p. 35-36. Małgorzata Semil, Elżbieta Wysińska, Słownik Teatru Współczesnego, Warszawa: WAi F,1990, p. 38-39, drugie wydanie: Warszawa: PAN, Instytut Sztuki, 1980, p. 45-46; Złota Księga Nauk Humanistycznych, Gliwice: Mastermedia, 2013, p. 32; Theatrical Directors, Westport – London: Greenwood Press, 1994, p. 52-53; Who is Who in Polish America, New York: Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, 1996; Kazimierz Braun, International Artistic Advisor, Ambassador Theatre International Center, zoom.info, 2015; Five Thousand Personalities of the World, Raleigh, North Carolina: The American Biographical Institute, 1992, p. 50; International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre, 1992, p. 84-85; Men and Women of Distinction, Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre, 1984, p. 56; Two Thousand Notable American Men, Raleigh, North Carolina: The American Biographical Institute, 1992, p. 36; Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, New Jersey: A Reed Reference Publishing Company, 1994, p. 138; Kazimierz Braun, Culture.pl. [2014/05/23]; Kazimierz Braun, www.poles [2014/05/23].
↑ Antoni Dunajski, Kazimierz Braun wobec Cypriana Norwida, w: Kazimierz Braun, Mój teatr Norwida. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2014. p.12-32.
↑ Justyna Hoffman, Grand Drame – Grand Théâtre in: Kazimierz Braun, Mój teatr Różewicza. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2013, pp. 15-62.
↑ Kazimierz Braun, Z szekspirowskiego archiwum reżysera, in: Andrzej Żurowski, Szekspiromania, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2013, pp. 103-121.
↑ Horyzonty teatru III. Bibliografia Kazimierza Brauna, oprac. Barbara Bułat, Toruń: Wyd. A. Marszałek, 2014, pp. 278-294.
↑ Wojciech Kaczmarek, Kazimierza Brauna historia teatru, in: Szkice o twórczości Kazimierza Brauna, pod red. Elżbiety Kosarzeckiej, Toruń: Wyd. A. Marszałek, 2004, pp. 55-77.
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