Poet, writer, dancer, stage and theater actress, author of satirical texts.
Born in Łódź, she attended the local ballet school at the age of three. During the interwar period, she worked at the Cyganeria, Kameralny, and Cyrulik Warszawskie theatres as a dancer, sketch writer, and performer. It was here that she met her future husband, the poet, satirist, and lyricist Jerzy Jurandot.
From the autumn of 1940 until the so-called Great Deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942, they lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, where Jerzy Jurandot organized performances in which Stefania participated (Melody Palace, and later the Femina Theatre). In August 1942, they managed to reach the "Aryan side." They hid in Gołąbki, near Warsaw, with the family of Zofia and Gabriel Kijkowski. It was there that Jurandot wrote her memoirs (published only in 2014) and Stefania Grodzienska's collection of poems, "Children of the Ghetto" (published in 1947 under the pseudonym Stefania Ney).
After the war, she became the first female Polish radio announcer in Lublin and began writing her first columns for "Szpilki" and "Przekrój." Collections of her columns and sketches were published under the titles "Dzionek satyryka" (A Satirist's Day), "Jestem niesezna" (I'm Not Serious), "Brzydki ogród" (Uniforms and Humoresques), "Plagues and Beaches," and "Pieces of Men, Women, and Blandness." She is also the author of a biographical portrait of Fryderyk Jarose, "Urodzenił go Błękitny Ptak" (A Blue Bird Born Him), the humorous "Wyznania chałturzystki" (Confessions of a Chauffeur), and the autobiography "Już nie musi" (I Don't Need Anything Anymore).
She died after a short illness on April 28, 2010 and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery.
