 In 1952, he emigrated to West Germany and became an employee of the Allianz AG insurance company.In his free time, he occupied himself with Polish culture and with Polish literary translation, and maintained contact with Polish writers.Dedecius remarked ... "Only when I had gotten myself set up in life and enjoyed some stability was I able to turn to literature in a long-term and systematic way, although my career, you could say, had nothing whatever to do with writing."