Julian Tuwim

Julian Tuwim (born 13 September 1894 in Łódź, † December 27, 1953 in Zakopane ) was a Polish poet.

Life

He was born to a Polish-Jewish family. His father was a banker. Tuwim 1916-1918 studied at the Warsaw University. After the outbreak of war in September 1939 Tuwim escaped through Romania, first to France, then to South America and the USA. After the war he was one of the first writers who returned to Poland. He died in 1953 of a stroke.

Work

His poetry is characterized by a fine sense of humor. He was the founder in 1919 of Poets Group Scamander and one of the outstanding representatives of the literary cabaret of the 1920s and 1930s. He was also a translator from Russian. He translated Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol and Pasternak into Polish.

Tuwim's work is still reading in Polish schools. Especially popular are its funny children poems, which now present as audiobooks.

Tuwim was master of onomatopoeia - onomatopoeia. An example of this is his children 's poem " The Locomotive" ( German by James Kruss ).

Tuwim was politically engaged. In the first years after 1918 Tuwim was delighted with the resurrected Poland and the Head of State Piłsudski, but then his views gradually shifted to the left, his relations with the friends of the government circles disturbed in any way. His poem " The Opera Ball " ( Bal w operze ) - a sharp criticism of the then elite - was banned by the censorship. During the war in exile Tuwim created his masterpiece - the epic "Polish Flowers" ( polskie Kwiaty ) - which became the ruthless settlement with the Polish past. In reality, the first postwar years Tuwim created a few works. He devoted himself to collecting literary rarities and curiosities, which he published in the monthly journal " Problemy ".