Wspomnienia o Reducie i Juliuszu Osterwie spisane przez Redutowców w latach 1947–1949

The texts published here comprise a collection of memoirs about the Reduta and Juliusz Osterwa written down in 1947–1949 by Osterwa’s collaborators. They are kept in the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, where they were deposited by Jerzy Zajączkowski in 1993. The collection contains eight accounts (in the form of memoirs and letters) and three answers to a questionnaire containing 27 questions about the Reduta and Osterwa. The authors of the memoirs are: Adam Bunsch, Włodzimierz Chełmicki, Jan Ciecierski, Halszka Kamocka, Aleksandra Rostkowska, Andrzej Rybicki, Alfred Szymański, Irena Netto, and Halina Gallowa. Authorship of one answer to the questionnaire has not been established. The collection is a valuable source of information concerning the Reduta as a place of work, the ensemble and its modes of work, Osterwa’s directing, and the everyday life at the Reduta. The authors talk about Juliusz Osterwa as an artist, pedagogue, director, actor, and a private person, describing his relations with collaborators, his personality, his personal preferences, and the way he carried himself. The collection of memoirs is being published for the first time, and it constitutes a valuable material for the research on the history of the Reduta and the life of its founder.