Abonnement 1988/89 Kammerspiele | Polish Poster | Jan Lenica

The Paderborn Kammerspiele (theater) was founded in 1957 by the young actor Elert Bode. While the opening premiere took place in the auditorium of the Theodorianum high school, from 1959 the productions were shown in the former Café Vaterland and, in the tradition of traveling theaters, throughout the region. In 1968, thanks to the support of the people of Paderborn, the theater was able to move to a venue in the new Volksbank building. The poster artist Jan Lenica (1928-2001) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of  Walerian Borowczyk. Between 1963 and 1986 he lived and worked in France, and from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. In 1974 he lectured on poster art at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. Lenica’s work made one of the key chapters in the history of Polish art of the second half of the twentieth century. His fame and recognition in Poland as well as international acclaim was earned by his poster art and animated films, the two areas in which he was considered one of the world’s finest artists. He is regarded as a forerunner of modern animation.