Antoni Marianowicz

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Antoni Marianowicz (born Kazimierz Jerzy Berman ; born January 4, 1923 in Warsaw ; † June 3, 2003 ) was a Polish writer, journalist and diplomat.

Life

The son of the Jewish businessman Gustav Berman attended grammar school in Warsaw and passed the Abitur in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in 1941 . After the death of his father, he fled the ghetto in 1942 and worked in Wołomin first under the name Mieczysław Chmielewski , later under the name Antoni Marianowicz , which he kept after the war . He took part in the Warsaw Uprising and after its suppression fled to Brwinów , where he became involved in the Central Welfare Council (Rada Główna Opiekuńcza).

From February 1945 Marianowicz worked for the Polpress news agency . At the same time he began working with the weekly Szpilki , where he published limericks, satirical poems and translations from English and German. He visited the Szkoła Dyplomatyczno-Konsularna of the Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw and in 1946 went to the Polish Embassy in Brussels as an attachée . There he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Polska Dzisiejsza from 1946-47 and in 1947 became a member of the Polish Workers 'Party (later the Polish United Workers' Party ).

After returning to Warsaw in 1948, he became editor of Przegląd Międzynarodow . From 1949 to 1989 he worked initially as deputy editor-in-chief and later as a member of the editorial board for Szpilki . 1950–51 he edited the Biblioteka Szpilek series . Since the 1950s he has written and edited plays and musicals for the theater (together with Janusz Minkiewicz ), wrote cabaret texts and worked for the Syrena Theater and the Stańczyk Cabaret .

Since 1957 Marianowicz was a member of the Polish PEN Club . He wrote for radio and television and has received multiple awards from the Radio and Television Committee. From 1972 to 1975 he was a correspondent for the American magazine Variety in Warsaw. From 1974 to 1984 he headed the satire club of the Polish Writers' Union. From 1974 to 1978 he was Vice President, from 1984 to 1992 a member of the board and from 1996 until his death chairman of the board of directors of the artists' association ZAiKS . For his services, Marianowicz was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

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SURNAME Marianowicz, Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berman, Kazimierz Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish diplomat, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2003
Place of death Warsaw