Agneša Kalinová

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Agneša Kalinová (born July 15, 1924 in Košice , Czechoslovakia ; died September 18, 2014 in Munich ) was a Czechoslovak journalist, publicist, film critic and translator.

Life

Agneša Farkašová (Agi) was born into a Jewish family in Košice and grew up in Prešov . Parts of the region, in which Slovaks, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Jews and Germans lived, went to the Kingdom of Hungary with the First Vienna Arbitration in 1938 and with the break-up of Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the Slovak state in 1939 . Due to the anti-Jewish politics in Slovakia , Agi was excluded from further attendance at the grammar school. In 1942 her family was deported by the Tiso regime to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where they were victims of the Holocaust . Agi escaped deportations from Slovakia and Hungary to a Catholic monastery in Budapest .

After the war ended, she married the Slovak cabaret artist Ján Kalina (1913–1981), who also worked in film. Agi Kalinová worked from 1946 to 1948 at the French consulate in Prague and in 1952 became a journalist in Bratislava for the weekly newspaper Kultúrny život (Cultural Life). a. Film reviews and translated from French, Hungarian and German. After the crackdown on the Prague Spring in 1968, both were banned from working . In 1969 she was a juror at the International Film Festival in West Berlin . In 1972 she was arrested as an alleged traitor to the country; after three months in prison, she worked as an unskilled worker in an electrical company.

In 1978 the couple had to emigrate to the West with their daughter Julia, Ján died in 1981. Agneša Kalinová worked as an editor and commentator in the Czechoslovak editorial team of Radio Free Europe in Munich and was therefore a well-known voice and mediator of suppressed news in Czechoslovakia the country.

Both were rehabilitated in Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution in 1990. In 2012 she published her autobiographical book My Seven Lives . She received the Medaila prezidenta Slovenskej republiky posthumously in the Slovak Republic .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Jana Juráňová: Mojich 7 životov? . Bratislava: Aspect, 2012

literature

  • Ján Kalina: Obzri sa s úsmevom, autobiografománia 1971 - 1974 . Vydavateľstvo PT, Prístrojová technika, Bratislava 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michal Hvorecký : “There is so much to laugh about in the world”, obituary, in: Die Welt , September 20, 2014, p. 26
  2. ↑ Ján Kalina in the Slovak Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Agneša Kalinová ( Memento from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), at FTF (sk)
  4. ↑ Agneša Kalinová  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Salon@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / salon.eu.sk  
  5. ↑ Julia Sherwood , at Salon, ceeforum
  6. ↑ Medaila prezidenta Slovenskej republiky , at prezident.sk
personal data
SURNAME Kalinová, Agneša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farkašová, Agneša (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak journalist, publicist, film critic, translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2014
Place of death Munich