 Meidner himself increasingly turned to writing—he produced several books of dense expressionist prose and contributed to many newspaper articles.In order to escape antisemitic repressions he moved to Cologne where he became an art teacher at Yawneh Jewish School in 1935.In 1939 he fled with his family to England (his wife Else Meidner was also an artist) where he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man.