קאָרנטײער, born 1890s, murdered in Auschwitz c. 1942) was a Polish Jewish actor, lyricist, poet, and coupletist.
He then moved to Warsaw, where he was hired in 1926 by the Scala Theater to write song lyrics, for instance to Osip Dimov's Yoshke Muzikant.
[1] He wrote a play called Nokh Halbe Nakht (After midnight) which debuted June 4, 1942 (directed by Chaim Sandler).
written with "tango-king" Oskar Strock; their version was based on an existing Russian language tango, "Blue eyes" (Russian: Голубые глаза) which was then popular in Poland in a Polish-language version called "Dokąd mam iść?".
On a lighter note, he wrote Yiddish lyrics (performed by Menashe Oppenheim) to the song Sex Appeal made famous by Eugeniusz Bodo in the 1937 movie Piętro wyżej (Upstairs).