Henryk Tomaszewski (mime)

Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig (20 November 1919 – 23 September 2001) was a Polish mime artist and theatre director.

Tomaszewski left Parnell's company in 1949 and resettled in Wrocław, where he worked as a ballet dancer in the Opera and already there began to develop his own concept of mime.

Tomaszewski ceased performing in the mid-1960s but continued to direct, train, and choreograph the ensemble and all productions.

Between 1960 and 1966, he collaborated with the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (State Counterintelligence Service), reporting on the activities of his friends and colleagues.

He did not receive payment for these activities, and Dr. Sebastian Ligarski, the researcher who discovered the dossier on Tomaszewski in the archives of the Wroclaw IPN (Institute of National Remembrance), conjectures that the service blackmailed him either because of his known homosexual tendencies[citation needed] or with the threat of a ban on foreign travel.