Bronius Krivickas (1919–1952) graduated Biržai gymnasium in 1938, and began his studies at Vytautas Magnus University, later - Vilnius University. He was a member of literary organisations and networks, such as ‘Šatrijos meno kuopa’, led by the famous Lithuanian writer Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas. Krivickas was the editor of the journal Ateitis (Future) in 1938–1939, and later the editor of the newspaper Studentų dienos (Student Days). From 1944, he worked in the editorial offices of the journal Kūryba (Creative Work), and as a teacher at Biržai gymnasium. In 1945, he joined the anti-Soviet partisan movement. He became the editor of partisan newspapers such as Aukštaičių kova (The Struggle of the Aukštaičiai) and Partizanų kova (The Partisan Struggle). Krivickas was killed in 1952, during an operation by the Soviet state security service.

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- Biržai , Lithuania

Krolkiewicz, Ralf-Günter

Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz was an actor and director. When he was younger, he was also a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, but left disillusioned in 1982. In his private notes, he reflected on his circumstances and sometimes he held readings of them. In a secret search of his apartment, the State Security discovered these notes. He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to one and half years imprisonment for "public denigration". In 1985, the Federal German Republic "bought" his freedom (paid an amount of money to the GDR to liberate him and made him leave the country). From 1997 till 2004, he was artistic director of the Hans-Otto Theatre in Potsdam, where he also worked when he was arrested.

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- Potsdam , Germany

Krone, Tina

Tina Krone came to East-Berlin in 1975 to pursue her studies. In 1982, she began working as a teacher, at the same time becoming engaged with various dissident groups. She was active in “Women for Peace”, a member of a conspiratorial reader circle, and was involved in the production of prohibited print materials and programs for an illegal radio station. Three years later, in 1985, she was barred from teaching. She found new employment via the ‘New Forum’ (Neues Forum) civil rights movement as editor for the Die Andere (‘The Other’) weekly. In 1992, the Robert-Havemann Society decided to open an archive and Krone’s assistance was requested. Today, she is the director of the resulting Archive of Opposition to the GDR, the largest of the so-called ‘rehabilitation archives’. As a research associate of the Robert-Havemann Society, Tina Krone has curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions, and authored numerous publications.

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- 10437 Berlin Schliemannstraße 23 , Germany

Krumpholc, Jan

Jan Krumpholc (3 June 1927 Radíkov - September 2010 Olomouc) was a Czech farmer and dissident. During Wold War II the Krumpholc family helped escaped Russian prisoners and partisans. After February 1948 Jan Krumpholc joined the anticommunist resistance. In spring 1949 he was arrested and sentenced for treason and espionage for 15 years in prison. He served his sentence in uranium mines in Jáchymov and in one of the hardest labour camps, the stone-pit Mořina. After release in 1969 due to an amnesty he changed several jobs. At the end of the 1970s he started to copy and distribute Catholic samizdat. In the basement of his house in Radíkov he had a manual duplicating machine. At that time, the Vicar-General in the Olomouc Archdiecese was Dr Antonín Veselý, a well-known „patriotic priest“ who collaborated with the communist regime. At the beginning of the 1980s Krumpholc was sentenced to 3 years prison for these activities, but for health reasons, he did not have to serve his sentence. Audio recordings of Krumpholc’s recollections have been preserved by the association Stopy paměti in Olomouc (stopypameti.cz/jan-krumpholc).

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- Olomouc, Czech Republic

Krymarys, Witold

Witold Krymarys (born 1948) is an intermedial and analytical photography artist, a filmmaker and a creator of video art. In the 1980s he participated in the Pitch-In Culture. Apart from artistic activities Krymarys creates commercial and applied photography.

Krymarys graduated from the Electric Department at the Łódź University of Technology. In 1972 he joined the Łódź Society of Photography, and two years later the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Since 1974 he has been practising and conceptualising blurred photography (fotografia poruszona), focusing on emotions and experience related to time-space. Similarly as other representatives of the photomedialist art of the 1970s, such as Antoni Mikołajczyk and Ryszard Waśko, Krymarys was interested in movement analysis and ontology of photographic image. At the same time Krymarys did not restrained from addressing social issues. To capture the dynamism of events he would use photography and video simultaneously and often attach ironic commentaries to his works, as in the case of his exhibition titled Photomotions (Fotomocje) in 1985.

Sense of humour and interest in intermediality and motion in photography drew Krymarys towards Łódź Kaliska and the Pitch-In Culture. The photographer took part in the plein-air sessions in Teofilów and the meetings at The Attic. In 1986, together with Józef Rybakowski, he shot a film titled Machines Trembling, Chimneys Smoking... (Maszyny drżące, kominy dymiące...) the Pitch-In Culture’s dramatic farewell gesture for The Attic. A year earlier, also within the Pitch-In Culture, Krymarys made the A Dance by Ewa B. (Taniec Ewy B.): a film consisting of deliberately blurry images, picturing a spontaneous dance on top a table during a party. The artist used both photo and video cameras to critically explore media coverage, as in 1987 The Race (Wyścig): a simultaneous observation a bicycle race on television and through the window.

Krymarys remains faithful to blurred photography, often juxtaposing static architecture and statues with the dynamics of human gestures and urban traffic. Since 1982 he has been running his own photography studio in Łódź.

Sources:

Krzysztof Jurecki, „Koncepcja zdjęć poruszonych według Witolda Krymarysa”, in: „Witold Krymarys. Fotografia poruszona 1974-2016”, Anna Araszkiewicz (red.), Łódź 2016.

Piotr Krajewski i Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska (red.), „Ukryta dekada. Polska sztuka wideo 1985-1995”, Wrocław 2010.

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- Łódź , Polska