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The Piwnica pod Baranami (English: The Basement, or the Cellar under the Rams) is a Polish literary cabaret located in Kraków, Poland. For over thirty years, in the People's Republic of Poland, Piwnica pod Baranami served as the most renowned political cabaret in the country, until the end of (and beyond) the communist era. Created by Piotr Skrzynecki in 1956, the cabaret continues its activities, contrary to rumours that it has been closed after the death of its founder in 1997. It resides at its original location in the medieval Old Town district, at the Main Market Square (next to Vis-á-vis café).^[1]

At first, the facility was a meeting place for Kraków students. It was a club for creative youth (Klub Młodzieży Twórczej), part of the Old Town Community Centre in the Palace under the Rams (Pałac Pod Baranami). The stage was formed by young artists of many different genres: writers, musicians, visual artists and actors, as well as their friends and faithful audiences. After nearly fifty years Piwnica became a legend of local eccentricity, and the style of the Piwnica cabaret entered the colloquial language as the "underground (piwnica) style" of performance.^[2] An account of the cabaret performance at Piwnica is given in a 2010 book A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka.^[3]

Piwnica's influence has reached beyond the art; it has been described thus: "It was much more than a cabaret. It was a breath of freedom and of ironic distance to the reality which surrounded us."^[4]

Artists of Piwnica pod Baranami

References

^ (in Polish) Official website of Piwnica pod Baranami with links to related articles on its history, performers, and the location Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
^ Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora, "Piwnica pod Baranami", Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, 2004
^ Pasulka, B. A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True. (London:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2010), 150-152.
^ "Obituary: Piotr Skrzynecki". 23 October 2011.

External links

piwnicapodbaranami.pl
(in Polish) Tomasz Handzlik, Cenne pamiątki piwniczne nie zginą Gazeta Kraków
Piwnica pod Baranami discography at Discogs

Bibliography

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier: Piwnica pod Baranami, Wydawnictwo Tenten, Warsaw 1994, reissue 2002 by Prószyński i S-ka, ISBN 83-7337-267-9
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier: Piotr, Wydawnictwo Literackie 1998, ISBN 83-08-02861-6
Jolanta Drużyńska, Stanisław M. Jankowski: Kolacja z konfidentem. Piwnica pod Baranami w dokumentach Służby Bezpieczeństwa, Kraków 2006
Wacław Krupiński: Głowy piwniczne, Wydawnictwo Literackie 2007, ISBN 978-83-08-04103-1
Barbara Nawratowicz: Piwnica pod Baranami. Początki i rozwój (1956-1963), Petrus, 2010
Janusz R. Kowalczyk: Wracając do moich Baranów, Wydawnictwo Trio, Warsaw 2012, ISBN 978-83-7436-291-7

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[1] (in Polish) Official website of Piwnica pod Baranami with links to related articles on its history, performers, and the location Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora, "Piwnica pod Baranami", Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, 2004

[Pasulka-3] Pasulka, B. A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True. (London:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2010), 150-152.

[indept-4] "Obituary: Piotr Skrzynecki". 23 October 2011.

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+{{Short description|Literary cabaret in Kraków, Poland}}
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-The '''Piwnica pod Baranami''' ({{lang-en|The Basement, or the Cellar under the Rams}}) is a [[Poland|Polish]] literary [[cabaret]] located in [[Kraków]], [[Poland]]. For over thirty years, in the [[People's Republic of Poland]], Piwnica pod Baranami served as the most renowned political cabaret in the country, until the end of (and beyond) [[History of Poland (1945-1989)|the communist era]]. Created by [[Piotr Skrzynecki]] in 1956, the cabaret continues its activities, contrary to rumours that it has been closed after the death of its founder in 1996. It resides at its original location in the [[medieval]] [[Kraków Old Town|Old Town district]], at [[Main Market Square, Kraków|the Main Market Square]] (next to Vis-á-vis café).<ref>{{pl icon}} [http://www.piwnicapodbaranami.krakow.pl/archiwum/index.html  Official website of ''Piwnica pod Baranami'' with links to related articles on its history, performers, and the location]</ref>
+The '''Piwnica pod Baranami''' ({{langx|en|The Basement, or the Cellar under the Rams}}) is a Polish literary [[cabaret]] located in [[Kraków]], [[Poland]]. For over thirty years, in the [[People's Republic of Poland]], Piwnica pod Baranami served as the most renowned political cabaret in the country, until the end of (and beyond) [[History of Poland (1945-1989)|the communist era]]. Created by [[Piotr Skrzynecki]] in 1956, the cabaret continues its activities, contrary to rumours that it has been closed after the death of its founder in 1997. It resides at its original location in the [[medieval]] [[Kraków Old Town|Old Town district]], at [[Main Market Square, Kraków|the Main Market Square]] (next to Vis-á-vis café).<ref>{{in lang|pl}} [http://www.piwnicapodbaranami.krakow.pl/archiwum/index.html  Official website of ''Piwnica pod Baranami'' with links to related articles on its history, performers, and the location] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226131242/http://www.piwnicapodbaranami.krakow.pl/archiwum/index.html |date=2009-02-26 }}</ref>
+[[File:Piotr Skrzynecki.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Piotr Skrzynecki]]]]
-At first, the facility was a meeting place for Kraków students. It was a club for creative youth (Klub Młodzieży Twórczej), part of the Old Town Community Centre in the Palace under Arieses. The stage was formed by young artists of many different [[genre]]s: writers, musicians, visual artists and actors, as well as their friends and faithful audiences. After nearly fifty years Piwnica became a legend of local eccentricity, and the style of the Piwnica cabaret entered the colloquial language as the "underground (piwnica) style" of performance. <ref>Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora, [http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/in_te_piwnica_pod_baranami_krakow  "Piwnica pod Baranami",] [[Instytut Adama Mickiewicza]], 2004</ref>
+At first, the facility was a meeting place for Kraków students. It was a club for creative youth (Klub Młodzieży Twórczej), part of the Old Town Community Centre in the Palace under the Rams (Pałac Pod Baranami). The stage was formed by young artists of many different [[genre]]s: writers, musicians, visual artists and actors, as well as their friends and faithful audiences. After nearly fifty years Piwnica became a legend of local eccentricity, and the style of the Piwnica cabaret entered the colloquial language as the "underground (piwnica) style" of performance.<ref>Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora, [http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/in_te_piwnica_pod_baranami_krakow  "Piwnica pod Baranami"], [[Instytut Adama Mickiewicza]], 2004</ref> An account of the cabaret performance at Piwnica is given in a 2010 book ''A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True'' by Brigid Pasulka.<ref name="Pasulka">Pasulka, B. ''A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True.'' (London:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2010), 150-152.</ref>
+Piwnica's influence has reached beyond the art; it has been described thus: "It was much more than a cabaret. It was a breath of freedom and of ironic distance to the reality which surrounded us."<ref name=indept>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-piotr-skrzynecki-1255652.html|title = Obituary: Piotr Skrzynecki|date = 23 October 2011}}</ref>
 == Artists of Piwnica pod Baranami ==
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-[[File:Anna Dymna3.jpg|thumb|75px|[[Anna Dymna|Dymna]]]]
+[[File:Ewa Demarczyk Polish singer 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ewa Demarczyk|Demarczyk]]]]
+[[File:Krzysztof Komeda by Zbigniew Kresowaty 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Krzysztof Komeda|Komeda]]]]
 * [[Bronisław Chromy]]
 * [[Ewa Demarczyk]]
 * [[Leszek Długosz]]
+* [[Stefan Dymiter]]
 * [[Anna Dymna]]
 * [[Wiesław Dymny]]
 * [[Janina Garycka]]
 * [[Jan Güntner]]
+* [[Tamara Kalinowska]]
 * [[Krzysztof Komeda]]
 * [[Zygmunt Konieczny]]
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 * [[Maria Nowotarska]]
 * [[Mirosław Obłoński]]
-* [[Joanna Olczak - Ronikier]]
+* [[Joanna Olczak-Ronikier]]
 * [[Agnieszka Osiecka]]
 * [[Krzysztof Penderecki]]
 * [[Joanna Plewińska]]
-* [[Mieczysław Święcicki]]
 {{col-break|width=25%}}
-[[File:Turnau Grzegorz.jpg|thumb|75px|[[Grzegorz Turnau|Turnau]]]]
+[[File:Leszek Długosz podczas koncertu.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Leszek Długosz|Długosz]]]]
+[[File:Grzegorz Turnau (2009).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Grzegorz Turnau|Turnau]]]]
-* [[Irena Kika Szaszkiewiczowa]]
+* [[Mieczysław Święcicki]]
+* [[Kika Szaszkiewiczowa]]
 * [[Jerzy Turowicz]]
+* [[Jerzy Vetulani]]
 * [[Andrzej Wajda]]
 * [[Kazimierz Wiśniak]]
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 * [[Grzegorz Turnau]]
 * [[Leszek Wójtowicz]]
-* [[Krystyna Zachwatowicz]].
+* [[Krystyna Zachwatowicz]]
 * [[Andrzej Zarycki]]
 * [[Dorota Ślęzak]]
+* Ewa Wnuk- Krzyzanowska
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+{{commons category|Piwnica pod Baranami}}
-==Notes and references==
+==References==
 {{reflist}}
-{{refbegin|2}}
-* {{pl icon}} Tomasz Handzlik, [http://miasta.gazeta.pl/krakow/1,73736,3801834.html Cenne pamiątki piwniczne nie zginą] Gazeta Krakow
-{{refend}}
-==See also==
+==External links==
+* [https://piwnicapodbaranami.pl/ piwnicapodbaranami.pl]
-* [[Culture of Kraków]]
+* {{in lang|pl}} Tomasz Handzlik, [http://miasta.gazeta.pl/krakow/1,73736,3801834.html Cenne pamiątki piwniczne nie zginą] Gazeta Kraków
-{{commonscat|Piwnica pod Baranami}}
+* {{discogs artist|Piwnica Pod Baranami}}
+== Bibliography ==
+* [[Joanna Olczak-Ronikier]]: ''Piwnica pod Baranami'', Wydawnictwo Tenten, Warsaw 1994, reissue 2002 by [[Prószyński i S-ka]], {{ISBN|83-7337-267-9}}
+* Joanna Olczak-Ronikier: ''Piotr'', [[Wydawnictwo Literackie]] 1998, {{ISBN|83-08-02861-6}}
+* Jolanta Drużyńska, Stanisław M. Jankowski: ''Kolacja z konfidentem. Piwnica pod Baranami w dokumentach Służby Bezpieczeństwa'', Kraków 2006
+* Wacław Krupiński: ''Głowy piwniczne'', Wydawnictwo Literackie 2007, {{ISBN|978-83-08-04103-1}}
+* Barbara Nawratowicz: ''Piwnica pod Baranami. Początki i rozwój (1956-1963)'', Petrus, 2010
+* Janusz R. Kowalczyk: ''Wracając do moich Baranów'', [[Wydawnictwo Trio]], Warsaw 2012, {{ISBN|978-83-7436-291-7}}
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+{{Authority control}}
 [[Category:1956 establishments in Poland]]
 [[Category:Polish cabarets]]
+[[Category:Culture in Kraków]]
-[[de:Piwnica pod Baranami]]
-[[pl:Piwnica pod Baranami]]
-[[ru:Подвал под баранами]]

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