Few people know that Danuta Stenka comes from Kashubia. The actress was born in Sierakowice, but spent her whole childhood in nearby Gowidlin. In many interviews she talked about how her origin hindered her contacts with others. “For me, when I left the house and came to the city, everything was first, unknown. I had to learn many things for other obvious. It took a while before I realized that Gowidlino was not my problem, but my advantage. It reached me somehow at the beginning of my professional path, that my childhood, a village, my roots, all that hurts me, is also true about me ” – she explained in an interview with” Your style “. Although Stenki was spoke in Kashubian at home, she never used it herself tongue. What prompted her to study?
Danuta Stenska was hiding Kashubian
In the seventh grade, the teacher ordered the actress to learn the legend of Gowidlin in the original. Stenka and her friend were the only students in the class that spoke Polish. “We both landed at the plaque. The tongue stood in my mouth, I hurt my words, and the kids had a lot of fun. Then I decided to speak Kashubian. Grandma was my trainer” – she explained. The beginnings of science were extremely difficult. With time, Stenka, however, gained practice in this language. After years she even appeared in the performance” Wòlô Bòskô “, called the Kashubian version of” Romeo and Julia “.
Danuta Stenka misses the former image of the village. A lot has changed
The actress with sentiment recalls the place where she was born. “My heart was left there, a family home” – she said in one of the interviews. Gowidlino, however, has changed a lot since the time when Stenka grew up in him. “Then, z windows Our house stretched a vast, and today a densely built view through the garden, orchard, grandfather's field, to the lake. Place of our children Play, bath in summer, in winter skating. Ice -based ice so hard that people from the surrounding villages drove through them through a sleigh (…). We climbed the nearby hill … I remember it and I miss it, “she confessed.