Julian Stryjkowski

Julian Stryjkowski (* April 27, 1905 in Stry, Austria - Hungary as Pesach Stark; † August 8, 1996 in Warsaw) was a Polish socialist journalist and writer.

He was born into a family chasidischer Jews, studied Polish Language and Literature in Lviv and worked from 1932 as a Polish teacher in Płock.

First set Zionist, he entered in 1934 with the Communist Party of Ukraine and therefore was also imprisoned in 1935. Following his release, he went to Warsaw, where he was working as a journalist and as a translator and was an employee of a library.

After the Polish campaign in 1939 he went to the Soviet-occupied Lvov and wrote for the Polish-speaking Czerwony Sztandar, then there 's only alternative to Pravda.

With Operation Barbarossa expiry of the Hitler -Stalin Pact and the beginning he fled to Kuibyshev, where he tried unsuccessfully to join the 2nd Polish Corps, and then first in Uzbekistan a job as a factory worker accepted for later in Moscow for the Volna Polska, organ of the communist and Soviet supported shadow government of Poland to write. He also adopted the pen name Julian Stryjkowski that his official last name was after the Second World War.

In 1946 he returned to Poland and led in Katowice the local branch of the Polish Press Agency. From 1949 to 1952 he headed the agency office in Rome, but was reported there, after he had published an aggressively anti-capitalist novel, which dealt with the fate of landless peasants.

Again returned to Poland, he became editor of the literary magazine Twórczość and practiced this activity until his retirement in 1978. Based on a novel by Stryjkowski directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz was the movie " Austeria, the house on the border " was also involved at the script of the author.

As early as 1966 he had left together with other well-known writers and cultural workers in protest against the communist repression of the arts, science and culture from the Polish Workers' Party. Since then, could his principal writings appear only in a censored version.

• Author
• Journalist
• Pole
• Born 1905
• Died in 1996
• Man