Girnyak Joseph Iosifovich

Other names: Ukrainian Yosip Yosipovich Girnyak
Definition: Ukrainian theater actor and director, theater teacher
Years of life: 14 апреля 1895 — 17 января 1989
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Genus. April 14, 1895, Strusow, Austria-Hungary. Outstanding Ukrainian theater actor and director, theater teacher, theorist of Ukrainian theatrical art of the 20th century. Academician of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (1949). In 1922 he joined the creative association “Berezil”. In 1926 he moved to Kharkov with the theater. After the destruction of the theater in October 1933, he moved to the Kharkov Theater for Young Spectators. Arrested on December 27, 1933 on charges of belonging to a “counter-revolutionary Ukrainian military organization that was preparing a terrorist attack against the party leadership of Ukraine.” On May 21, 1934 he was sentenced to three years in labor camp and exile. He served his sentence in “Ukhtpechlag” in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In exile he continued to work in the theater. In August 1940, he received permission to move to Cherkassy with his wife. Since 1941 he worked at the Kiev Theater for Young Spectators. From 1942 he worked in Lvov. In 1944, together with his wife, he left the Ukrainian SSR, lived in Germany and Austria, and from 1949 - in the USA. Died January 17, 1989 in New York.
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