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Juliusz Kazimierz Kaden-Bandrowski studied piano at conservatories in Lwów, Krakow and Leipzig.
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Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski
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Between 1933–1939 he was a secretary general of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury) in the Second Polish Republic. While studying at Brussels, he switched his interests to philosophy. During World War I, he served as aide to Józef Piłsudski and as chronicler to the First Brigade of the Polish Legions.
In 1907 he had begun working as a correspondent for the Polish press
After World War I, he associated himself with the Skamander group of Polish experimental poets founded in 1918, and in 1933 joined the Polish Academy of Literature. During World World War II, Kaden-Bandrowski declined to leave German-occupied Warsaw, to which he had moved during the Interbellum.
He participated in underground teaching and gave music lessons. He was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo.
He died on August 8, 1944, a week into the Warsaw Uprising.
His novels show penetrating insights and fidelity to facts. Behaviorist and expressionist elements. And strikingly unusual combinations of diverse styles and literary techniques.
Juliusz"s brother was Jerzy Bandrowski (1883–1940), a journalist, novelist and translator from English to Polish.
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Protestant