Marek HÅ‚asko
Marek Hlasko ( born January 14, 1934 in Warsaw, † June 14, 1969 in Wiesbaden) was a Polish writer.
Life
Hłaskos childhood was marked by the Second World War and difficult family relationships. His parents divorced in 1937, in 1939 his father died. The mother spent the first period of the German occupation of Warsaw with the young Marek in the capital. After the defeated revolution and the subsequent destruction of Warsaw in 1944, she moved with him to Czestochowa, where they remained until 1945, then to Chorzów and in the same year to Białystok.
In 1946 she moved to Breslau, where the mother remarried in 1949. Hlasko finished high school and began in 1949 in Warsaw a technical stage training, however, he dropped out after a year. In 1950 he returned to Breslau.
He spent the next few years with various odd jobs. His main occupation, he secured as a truck driver. In 1952, he was a correspondent for the workers Trybuna ludu what it enabled him to establish contacts with writers and publicists. In 1953 he gave up truck driving and received a scholarship of the Polish Writers' Union, the him who constantly wrote since his time in Częstochowa, allowed literary work.
Was published in 1954 in the literary almanac of the newspaper " Iskra " the Baza Sokołowska, Hłaskos debut work. From 1955, numerous literary texts from him in various Polish newspapers published. 1956 his first short story collection Pierwszy krok w appeared chmurach ( The first step in the clouds ), who introduced him in Poland, and in the same year his story osmY Refer to tygodnia (Eng. The eighth day of the week ).
In 1957, the eighth day of the week was filmed in a German - Polish co-production under the title The eighth day of the week. During the filming Hlasko learned the German actress Sonja Ziemann know that it was his wife soon. In 1958 he received the prize of the Polish publisher, the same year he went on a trip to Paris for several months. In Paris, he published several stories in the Polish exile publishing Instytut Literacki.
Shortly thereafter, a campaign against Hlasko was started in the Polish public, and he was discredited as a traitor to socialism. In the years following his return to Poland was denied. He was therefore not his home.
In the West, it was not possible to gain a foothold him. He received asylum in 1958 in West Berlin, and Kiepenheuer & Malevich in Cologne first appeared in German translation, the eighth day of the week. After spending a short time in Israel, he commuted between Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he moved to Los Angeles where he wanted to make a film with Roman Polanski, but this could not be realized in 1966. Its written in Polish works continued to appear in various exile publishers and have been translated into different languages.
After the divorce of Sonja Ziemann 1969, he moved to Israel, where he had a girlfriend and where one of his books should be made into a film. When he in the same year to Wiesbaden, to meet with the producers of the film went, he died unexpectedly on June 14. An overdose of sleeping pills was found as a cause of death. His final resting place he found on the South Cemetery in Wiesbaden.
Works (selection)
- Baza Sokołowska, Warsaw 1954
- Pierwszy krok w chmurach, Warsaw 1956
- Wszyscy byli odwróceni - Brudne czyny, Paris 1963
- Piekni dwudziestoletni, Paris 1966
- Sowa, córka piekarza, Paris 1968