The monument to Maria Koterbska was unveiled on Saturday, the one centesimal birthday of the queen of Polish swing, in Bielsko-Biała, town she was related to all through her life. It was positioned in entrance of the Polish Theatre, on the stage of which she took her first inventive steps.
“I’m very moved. My mom began on this theater; she danced and acted in performs right here. (…) I feel this can be a great place to unveil this monument,” stated the artist’s son Roman Frankl, who, along with the mayor of Bielsko-Biała Jarosław Klimaszewski and sculptor Lidia Sztwiertnia, unveiled the monument on Saturday afternoon.
Frankl, remembering his mom, who died greater than three years in the past, emphasised that though she was an distinctive, massive star, she by no means confirmed it. She was a standard, direct particular person.
President Jarosław Klimaszewski recalled that the queen of Polish swing was born precisely 100 years in the past in Biała (immediately the jap a part of Bielsko-Biała. Bielsko and Biała merged into one metropolis in 1951 – PAP). “She made our metropolis well-known everywhere in the world. Though she will not be amongst us, we nonetheless really feel that she is current. I hope that she is trying down on us immediately,” he stated.
The creator of the challenge, Lidia Sztwiertnia, confessed that whereas creating it, she puzzled what to do to maintain this character alive. “I feel I learn all of the lyrics of the songs and got here to the conclusion that there are quite a lot of objects in them. And I made a decision to place them within the sculpture. I made an extended costume, the underside of which is a frieze with objects from the songs – there’s a carousel, a tram, a rydz, a ball, a sailboat, birds, a coronary heart. There are quite a lot of them,” she stated.
Klimaszewski emphasised that regardless of many provides to journey around the globe, she all the time returned to her hometown. “We’re very grateful to her for that and we honor her,” he added.
The monumental Maria Koterbska is life-size, in a night robe with a bouquet of roses in her arm. The creator of the challenge, Bielsko-Biała sculptor Lidia Sztwiertnia, confessed that whereas creating it, she puzzled what to do to maintain this determine alive. “I feel I learn all of the lyrics of the songs and got here to the conclusion that there are quite a lot of objects in them. And I made a decision to place them within the sculpture. I made an extended costume, the underside of which is a frieze with objects from the songs – there’s a carousel, a tram, a rydz, a ball, a sailboat, birds, a coronary heart. There are quite a lot of them,” she stated.
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As she added, she additionally determined to point out – though a lot of our modern Bielsko residents remembered Maria Koterbska as a senior – that in her youth she was a really engaging girl. “I imagined that after the live performance, Mrs. Maria would come out in entrance of the theater with a bouquet of roses. And that is the scene I made,” she defined.
Maria Koterbska was born on July 13, 1924 in Biała. She by no means completely left her hometown. She started her profession after the conflict and gained the best reputation within the Nineteen Fifties. She had 1.5 thousand songs in her repertoire. Her largest hits had been: “Karuzela”, “Rudzielec”, “Złoty Piers”, “Serduszko puka w rytmie cza-cza”, “Augustowskie noce” and “Parasolki”.
In 1994 she was entered into the “Ebook of Meritorious for Bielsko-Biała”. In 1999 she obtained the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Medal for Advantage to Tradition – Gloria Artis.
Maria Koterbska died on January 18, 2021 in Bielsko-Biała on the age of 96. She was buried in her hometown. (PAP)
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