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The Grotowski Centre

Creation of the Centre

List of the Centre’s directors

  • 1st January  – 30th September, 1990: Zbigniew Osinski (founding director), Alina Obidniak (vice-director)
  • 1st October, 1990 – 31st May, 1991: Zbigniew Osinski (director)
  • 1st June, 1991 – 31st January, 2004: Stanislaw Krotoski (director), Zbigniew Osinski (artistic director)
  • 1st February, 2004 – 30th September, 2004: Jaroslaw Fret (director), Zbigniew Osinski (artistic director), Grzegorz Ziolkowski (programme director)
  • 1st October, 2004 – 28th December, 2006: Jaroslaw Fret (director), Grzegorz Ziolkowski (programme director) 

In the period 1991–2005, the Grotowski Centre was publisher of the journal Notatnik Teatralny. The editorial team consisted of the following persons: Krzysztof Kopka, Robert Rozcki, Jerzy Lukosz, Wojciech Malinowski, Teresa Blajet-Wilniewczyc, Zbigniew Jedrychowski, Krzysztof Mieszkowski. Today, Notatnik Teatralny is published by the Wroclaw City Library.

Alina Obidniak. Fot. £ukasz Giza  Zbigniew Osiñski. Fot. Tomasz Ho³od  Stanis³aw Krotoski. Fot. Archiwum


Below are reference notes to texts concerning the founding of the Grotowski Centre, which relate the motivations for its creation and recall a picture of the Centre from previous years.

  • Tadeusz Burzynski, Janusz Degler, Jozef Kelera, A Memorial. Regarding the Creation of the Museum and Archives of Teatr Laboratorium and Laboratory Institute in Wroclaw, July 1984  PDF
  • Zbigniew Osinski, The Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and of Cultural and Theatrical Research in Wroclaw. A Program Proposal, 21st June,1989  PDF
  • Tadeusz Burzynski, The Source, published in Gazeta Robotnicza, no. 49, 27th February 27,1992  PDF
  • Zbigniew Osinski, The Cultural Centres in Poland of the 1990s, 1994  PDF
  • Tadeusz Burzynski, The Laboratory of the Humanities, in Gazeta Robotnicza, no. 99, 24th May 24, 1995  PDF
  • Janusz Degler, Once Upon a Time... A Brief History of the Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski's Work and Cultural and Theatrical Research (1984–1990), January 2000 PDF