Wilhelm Dichter

Wilhelm poet ( b. 1935 in Boryslaw ) is a Polish writer who emigrated to the United States.

Life

During the war poet father died. He lived with his mother, first in the south of Poland and later, from 1944, in Warsaw and became a physicist and engineer. After completing his doctorate at Warsaw Polytechnic, he worked for thirteen years as a scientist and wrote popular scientific works and plays, to the anti-Semitic campaign in 1968, then forced him into Poland to emigrate, first to Vienna and Rome in the United States, where he worked in the IT industry worked. For his popular science works, including portraits of the great physicists of the twentieth century, he was in Poland the Bruno Winawer price. It was not until the end of 60 he began to write fiction. The central themes of his works are influenced by humanism, anti-Semitism in Poland, during the Second World War and after. He lives with his family, is spoken in Polish, near Boston.

Works

• The horse God. Transl. by Martin Pollack. Berlin: Rowohlt 1998.
• Rosenthal's legacy. Transl. by Martin Pollack. Berlin: Rowohlt 2000.