Leon Schiller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leon Schiller

Polish director

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1887

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1954

Profession: playwright, theater director

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (14 March 1887 – 25 March 1954) was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician.
He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music.
He was born in Kraków (then Krakau) under the Austrian rule during the foreign Partitions of Poland, to a family of Austrian origin that had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa. Schiller became famous for his 1934 staging of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady at Warsaw's Teatr Polski (Polish Theatre).
This was also presented in Lwów (now Lviv; 1932), Wilno (now Vilnius; 1933) as well as in Sofia in Bulgaria (1937).