12 Facts About Paul Fierlinger

Paul Fierlinger was a part-time lecturer at University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

Paul Fierlinger was born on March 15,1936, in Ashiya, Japan.

Paul Fierlinger's father, Jan Fierlinger, was a Czechoslovak diplomat, and his uncle Zdenek Fierlinger was a prominent figure in the Czechoslovak communist regime from 1948 until 1968.

Paul Fierlinger spent the World War II years in the United States.

Paul Fierlinger studied at a boarding school in Podebrady, where his schoolmates included Milos Forman, Ivan Passer, and Vaclav Havel.

Paul Fierlinger was one of the first animators in all of the communist countries across the Eastern Bloc to get away with privately producing animated films, which he sold to many state-run film and television studios across Czechoslovakia.

In 1967, Paul Fierlinger moved from communist Czechoslovakia to the Netherlands for freedom, where he pitched for a number of station breaks for Dutch television in Hilversum.

Paul Fierlinger then went to Paris, France to work for a short stint as a spot animator for Radio Television France and ended up in Munich, West Germany for half a year, having been offered the job of key animator on a feature film at Linda Films, The Conference of the Animals.

Paul Fierlinger became a steady provider of many TV commercials and sales films for US Healthcare, winning a variety of international awards.

In 1997, Paul Fierlinger received a PEW Fellowship in the Arts award for the body of his work.

Paul and Sandra Fierlinger lived Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania, where they maintained a home studio.

Paul Fierlinger died at home on April 4,2025, at the age of 89.