 Active in various journals, he was considered one of the heirs to the Skamander group of poets.In 1939 he fled Nazi-occupied part of Poland to Vilna, then under Lithuanian occupation, where in 1940 (after the Soviet take-over of the city) he ran a satirical theatre, as well as the "Ksantypa" cabaret in Biały Sztral cafe.Following the German take-over of the city in 1941 he moved back to Warsaw, where he collaborated with numerous officially-approved theatres.