Antanas Škėma

Antanas Škėma was born on 29 November 1910 in Łódź, where his father had been sent to teach; the war threw the family into Russia, and they did not return until 1921. A student of medicine, then of law, in Kaunas, he joined a theatre studio in 1935 and became an actor, then a director, at the state theatres of Kaunas and Vilnius. He left for Germany in 1944, reached the United States in 1949 and performed there with Lithuanian émigré troupes. He died in 1961, in the United States, at the age of fifty.

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• NovelWhite ShroudBalta drobulėAntanas Škėma · 1958Literature