Anatol Stern

Anatol Stern
Born	(1899-10-24)24 October 1899 Warsaw, Poland
Died	19 October 1968(1968-10-19) (aged 68) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	Screenwriter, poet, writer

Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in Warsaw – 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born 24 October 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University of Wilno but did not graduate. Prominent among Polish futurist poets, between 1921 and 1923 he co-authored (together with Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) the "Nowa Sztuka" (New Art) monthly. He also collaborated with other notable art magazines of the time, including the Skamander, Tadeusz Peiper's Zwrotnica and Wiadomości literackie.

With time he drifted away from avant-garde poetry and became a notable screenwriter. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, he authored more than 30 screenplays for both Polish and foreign films. After the Invasion of Poland he moved to Soviet-held Lwów, where he was arrested by the NKVD and sent to Soviet Gulag. Released after the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he joined the Polish Army and with it reached Palestine. There he made his living translating some of his pre-war works to Hebrew. In 1948 he returned to his home town, where he died 19 October 1968.

Selected filmography

Exile to Siberia (1930)
Róża (1936)
Pan Twardowski (1936)

Imdb filmography||http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827629/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

References

Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Stern, Anatol

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 112412315 LCCN: n81033331 ISNI: 0000 0001 2148 0785 GND: 119128705 SUDOC: 028834747 BNF: cb120588536 (data) NKC: ola2003174983

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.