Antonín Kratochvil (writer)
Antonín Kratochvil (born August 31, 1924 in Brno , † December 11, 2004 ) was a Czech writer and president of the exile PEN club.
Life
He attended grammar school in Brno until 1945, then studied history and Czech . In 1948 he was excluded from further studies for political reasons.
A year earlier he started as an editor in the newspaper Lidové obrody , a pro-Catholic publication in which he worked until 1952. In the same year he emigrated to Germany .
In Munich he applied to the radio station Radio Free Europe and wrote his doctoral thesis in philosophy in 1954. On the radio station Free Europe and the Voice of America , he oversaw programs that dealt with personalities in Czech literature.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he stayed in Munich , but also gave lectures in Pilsen and Brno.
Works
He published in a number of exile journals such as Proměny , Archa and Nový život . Kratochvil also published his own edition Lucernička from 1952 to 1962 and Kamenný krb from 1956 to 1964 . He wrote several books on the Baroque and after November 1989 three books of his lectures at the Radio University were published in Prague.
Book publications
- Kniha convertity, 1948
- Peníz exulantův, Munich 1952
- Kniha esejů, Munich 1959
- Poutník neznámých oceánů, 1959
- Kniha setkání, Norman 1962
- Communist university policy in Czechoslovakia. History and analysis of the development up to the present, Munich 1968
- Bibliography krásné české literatury vydané v exilu (1948 to 1967), Rome 1968
- Poet without a home. Czech and Slovak writers in exile, Munich 1970
- Žaluji 1-3. 1. Stalinská justice v Československu, Munich 1973
- Vrátit slovo umlčeným, Haarlem 1975
- Básníci ve stínu šibenice, Rome 1976
- Via dolorosa. Poezie Z. Rotrekla, V. Renče, J. Palivce, Toronto 1977, 1990
- 3. Cesta k Sionu, Haarlem 1977
- Evening talks with Luis Trenker. Munich: Athos 1980. ISBN 3-88499-008-X
- Oheň baroka. Kavalíři písně, mystici a asketové v české barokní literatuře, Munich 1984, Brno 1991
- The Bohemian Baroque. Selected chapters from Czech cultural history, Munich 1989. ISBN 978-3925967214
- ... za ostnatými dráty a minovými poli. Vývojové tendence v české exilové literature v l. 1948–68, Munich - Brno 1993. ISBN 978-3925967252
Collections
- Communism in the past and present, Bonn 1964
- Jan Amos Komenský a moderní pedagogika, Stuttgart 1971
- Socialism and / or Freedom, Berlin 1976
- Slovo a naděje, Rome 1978
- Filosofie Karla Máchy v kontextu evropského myšlení, Rozhlasová univerzita Svobodné Evropy, Munich - Prague 1993
Editions
- K. Mácha: Philosophia perennis, Munich 1982
- Rozhlasová univerzita Svobodné Evropy 1–2 (1st Munich - Prague 1993, 2nd Munich - Brno - Plzeň 1994).
biography
- K. Mácha: Bohemian baroque and its soul. Dr. Antonin Kratochvil the Catholic literary criticism of the 20th century, in Antonín Kratochvil Das Böhmische Barock, Munich 1989
- Z. Rotrekl: Skrytá tvár české literatury, 1991
- Slovo v úzkosti a naději. Collection for Antonin Kratochvil's 70th birthday., Edition Z. Rotrekl, K. Mácha, 1994
- Slovník českých spisovatelů od r. 1945, 1995.
Web links
- Literature by and about Antonín Kratochvil in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kratochvil, Antonín |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kratochvil, Antonin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 2004 |