Tadeusz Peiper

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Tadeusz Peiper (born May 3, 1891 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary ; died November 10, 1969 in Warsaw ) was a Polish poet, art critic and literary theorist.

Life

Tadeusz Peiper is one of the pioneers of the avant-garde in Poland and was a co-founder of the Krakow avant-garde . In 1921 he founded the monthly magazine Zwrotnica , which was mainly devoted to the avant-garde currents of contemporary poetry. Zwrotnica appeared until 1923 and was revived for 1926/1927. Despite this short life, it paved the way for young poets of the Kraków avant-garde, among them Julian Przyboś , Jan Brzękowski and Jalu Kurek . Peiper also published three remarkable collections of poems, which are among the most important of modern Polish poetry. As an artist, Peiper believed that the writer must appear like an accomplished craftsman who carefully plans all his words. Special effort must be made to the verse melody and only one-to-one metaphors should be used. He created the 3M slogan Miasto, Masa, Maszyna - Polish for city, mass, machine , one of the catchphrases of Polish poetry in the 1920s.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Peiper went to Lviv in the part of Poland occupied by the Soviet Union and worked there with Aleksander Wat . In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD . Released in 1943, he became a member of the Związek Patriotów Polskich and returned to Poland in 1944.

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SURNAME Peiper, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet, art critic and literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1969
Place of death Warsaw