Bruno Winawer
Bruno Winawer (born March 17, 1883 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died April 11, 1944 in Opole Lubelskie , Lublin ) was a Polish writer, comedy writer and doctor of physics of Jewish descent.
Life
Winawer studied physics at the University of Heidelberg . He was assistant to the Nobel Prize winner Pieter Zeeman at the University of Antwerp . From 1917 to 1920 he worked at the Warsaw Technical University . Then he devoted himself to literature. He wrote comedies, science fiction novels, popular science feuilletons and translated Brecht's “ Threepenny Opera ” with Władysław Broniewski .
After the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939, he fled from the National Socialists to Lemberg , which has now been occupied by the Soviet Union . After the conquest of Lemberg by the National Socialists in June 1941, he looked for hiding in the Warsaw ghetto , escaped death in the Treblinka extermination camp and died of tuberculosis shortly before the liberation of Poland in the hospital in Opole Lubelskie .
literature
- Literatura polska XX wieku. Volume 2: P - Z. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2000, ISBN 83-01-13029-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bruno Winawer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winawer, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1944 |
| Place of death | Opole Lubelskie |