Marian Brandys
Marian Brandys (25 January 1912 – 20 November 1998) was a Polish writer and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden into an assimilated Jewish family of the Polish intelligentsia. Brandys grew up in Łódź. His father owned a bank. Their prosperity allowed Marian, and his younger brother, Kazimierz, to attend the best private school for boys, sponsored by the city's merchants' club, Zgromadzenie Kupców Miasta Łodzi.[1]
During the Second Polish Republic Brandys graduated in Law from Warsaw University and worked in the courts before the 1939 invasion of Poland. He took part in the September Campaign as the commander of a mounted platoon of machine guns for the Independent Operational Group Polesie led by General Franciszek Kleeberg. Brandys spent the war years incarcerated in the German Woldenberg II-C prisoner of war camp for Polish officers near the town of Grünberg in Schlesien, present day Zielona Góra. He joined the Polish communist party upon the Soviet takeover of Poland and from 1949 worked as a reporter in Warsaw. Brandys published his first book during the Stalinist era, the propagandist Początek opowieści (The Beginning of a Story) about the factory workers of Nowa Huta. After the fall of Stalinism, he focused on writing historical novels[2] and children's books. He left the communist party in 1966.[1] He was the elder brother of the far more popular Polish writer, Kazimierz Brandys, author of the heart-wrenching Miasto niepokonane (Unconquered City) about the two Warsaw Uprisings during World War II.[1][3] He died in Warsaw in 1998.
References
- ^ a b c Janusz R. Kowalczyk (November 2013). "Marian Brandys". Culture.pl. Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ^ Marian Brandys, Koniec świata szwoleżerów, Tom 1, Czcigodni weterani, MG, Warszawa 2010. This the first in a hugely popular series, originally published by Iskra in 1972, about members of the light cavalry who had served in Napoleon's Russian campaign
- ^ Proszynski.pl (2011). "Kazimierz Brandys (1916-2000)". Miasto niepokonane by Kazimierz Brandys. Księgarnia Proszynski.pl. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Polish male writers
- Polish writers of young adult literature
- 20th-century Polish novelists
- University of Warsaw alumni
- 1912 births
- 1998 deaths
- Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
- Prisoners of Oflag II-C
- Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland