Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz

writer

Bruno Schulz was born on Jul 12, 1892 in Ukraine]. Bruno Schulz's big-screen debut came with The Hourglass Sanatorium directed by Wojciech Has in 1973. Bruno Schulz is known for Street of Crocodiles directed by Stephen Quay, Feliks Stawinski stars as Caretaker and as . The upcoming new movie Bruno Schulz plays is Street of Crocodiles which will be released on Jul 01, 1986.

Schulz is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable writers in Polish literature of the first half of the 20h Century. He was born in Drohobycz, a small village near Lvov, where he would live until he was shot by the Nazis on the street on November 19th, 1942. By then, Schulz had published two books. They were collections of stories and prose texts of extremely original style and contents. The first collection was published as The Cinnamon Shops in 1933; the second, published as Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra, was published in 1937. Schulz's work has often been compared to Franz Kafka's.

  • Birthday

    Jul 12, 1892
  • Place of Birth

    Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]