![]() Leon Schiller was also "the king" at the Directing Department of the State Institute of Theatre Arts in Warsaw. Thanks to this fascination he finally made the decision about the choice of his future profession. Erwin Axer met them personally in the first half of the thirties he was regularly attending the Lvov stagings of Horzyca and Schiller. Wilam Horzyca (1889-1959) and Leon Schiller (1887-1954), the prominent theatre directors, precursors of the Polish Monumental Theatre, often frequented his house. Maurycy Axer was a legal advisor to the municipal theatre in Lvov. The atmosphere of Lvov would remain a constant point of reference in a future life of Erwin Axer. The multi-ethnic city, situated between the West and the Orient, where the representatives of many nations and religions lived together in full symbiosis promoted the climate of tolerance and respect for cultural differences. ![]() Erwin Axer spent his childhood and youth in Lvov, one of the largest cities of the Second Polish Republic. In a short time became one of the most famous lawyers, a defender in criminal cases, among others in a famous Gorgonowa case, who was accused of the murder of the daughter of her cohabitant. The father rented an apartment in the centre of Lvov and he opened there a law office. The Axer family returned to Poland in mid 1920. This place was particularly associated with Erwin’s first theatrical memories, because there he used to visit a puppet theatre, Kasperletheater – an Austrian folk theatre. The Axer family used to spend the summer months in Baden, a resort near Vienna. The boys were brought up by the governess. His brother Henryk, the second son of the Axer family was born on November 28th, 1918. Their first son, Erwin Axer was born on January 1st, 1917 in Vienna, as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ![]() Maurycy and Fryderyka met in Lvov but they got married in Vienna on February 20th, 1916. She spent her childhood in Drohobych and Lvov. During the World War I he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and for four years he fought on the Russian, Italian and Albanian front.Įrwin’s mother, Fryderyka Ernesytna née Schuster (1894-1982) was born in Kołomyja, in a rich bourgeoisie family. Maurycy Axer (1886-1942) – Erwin’s father, prominent lawyer was born in Przemyśl. Polish science, cultural and political life developed freely at that time in the liberal Austrian partition. The ancestors of the Axer family came from Latvia to Galicia in the early nineteenth century. ![]()
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