1. Stefan Themerson was a Polish writer of children's literature, poet and inventor of Semantic Poetry, novelist, script writer filmmaker, composer and philosopher.
17 Facts About Stefan Themerson
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In 1928 Stefan Themerson went to Warsaw University to study physics.
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Stefan Themerson's first published piece of writing was in 1928.
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Stefan Themerson graduated with distinction in 1931 and they married the same year in Warsaw.
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Stefan Themerson contributed articles to various periodicals and prose and verse to school textbooks and wrote at least ten books for children which Franciszka illustrated.
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In 1983 Stefan Themerson, now living in London, made a reconstruction of the film with the London Film-Makers' Co-op.
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Stefan Themerson wrote for various Polish publications in Paris; Franciszka started to paint, and illustrated children's books for Flammarion.
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In 1940 Stefan Themerson volunteered for a Polish infantry regiment in France, just in time for the German invasion and the Allies' collapse.
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Stefan Themerson travelled inside France, first returning to occupied Paris, then on to Toulouse, where, through the Polish Red Cross, he re-established contact with Franciszka.
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Stefan Themerson had been working for the Polish Government in Exile as a cartographer in Paris and Normandy and had subsequently escaped to London on a troopship from Bayonne.
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Stefan Themerson spent time with the army in Scotland, where he finished Professor Mmaa, and then was sent to join the film unit of the Polish Ministry of Information and Documentation in London.
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In 1944 at the PEN club meeting to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of John Milton's Areopagitica, Stefan Themerson met Kurt Schwitters, who became a close friend until Schwitters' death in 1948.
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Stefan and Franciszka Themerson published many of their works through their own Gaberbocchus Press from 1948 to 1979.
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Stefan Themerson's work was published in 0 to 9 magazine, a US publication which explored language and meaning-making.
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Stefan Themerson wrote an opera, 'St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio'.
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In 1981, Stefan Themerson delivered the annual Huizinga Lecture in Leiden in the Netherlands, under the title "The Chair of Decency".
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Stefan Themerson died in London, two months after the death of Franciszka, in September 1988.