Daniel Okáli

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Daniel Okáli (born March 9, 1903 in Liptovský Mikuláš , † November 23, 1987 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak or Czechoslovak literary critic , poet , publicist and politician of the Communist Party of Slovakia (or the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ). Okáli was a co-founder of the avant-garde magazine DAV and an active member of the Davisté group that grew out of this magazine . In the 1950s he was persecuted in the so-called trial against bourgeois nationalists and sentenced to a long sentence.

Life

After the early death of his parents, Daniel Okáli grew up with his twin brother in an orphanage. After attending school in Bratislava, he attended a grammar school in Trenčín, then from 1921–1926 the law faculty of Charles University in Prague. Here he joined various left student organizations. During the Second World War he was an active member of the anti-fascist resistance.

Okáli used the following pseudonyms: Dav, Ján Krest, T. Stoklas, D. Šišolík.

DAV and trial against bourgeois nationalists

Daniel Okáli was involved in the creation of the Free Association of Slovak Socialist Students ( Voľné združenie študentov socialistov zo Slovenska ) in 1922 , from which the DAV magazine was formed in 1924 with Okáli's participation. The group formed around them, DAV, which was called more often than the Davists (), united prominent representatives of young communist intellectuals from Slovakia, who emphasized the Slovak independence and the autonomy of the party. They were thus in contrast to the other, centralistically thinking KPTsch members. After 1948 he held a number of functions in the Slovak National Council. The dispute between the autonomy-minded party members and the rest of the party led to an intra-party struggle, which in the 1950s led to the so-called trial against bourgeois nationalists in Slovakia. He lost his functions and was arrested. In this fabricated show trial, he was sentenced to 18 years and remained in prison until an amnesty in 1960.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daniel Okáli. Životopis autora , curriculum vitae of the Literárne informačné centrum portal , online at: litcentrum.sk / ...
  2. ↑ Daniel Okáli. Životopis , the résumé of the Databazeknih.cz portal, online at: databazeknih.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Literárny kritik a publicista Daniel Okáli zomrel pred 25 rokmi , obituary and résumé of the news portal TASR / Teraz Media as, November 23, 2012, online at: teraz.sk / ...
  4. ↑ Zakázaný document. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 (Prohibited document. Report of the CPC Central Committee on the political trials and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia 1949-68), Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970 (Czech edition), Introduction and closing words by Jiří Pelikán
  5. ^ Jacques Rupnik: Dějiny Komunistické strany Československa. Od počátků do převzetí moci , Academia, Praha 2002, ISBN 80-200-0957-4 ; from the French Helena Beguivonová (Original edition: Histoire du parti communiste tchécoslovaque , Paris, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1981). P. 142ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Okáli, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dav (pseudonym), Krest, Ján (pseudonym), Stoklas, T. (pseudonym), D. Šišolík, D. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak literary critic, poet, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Liptovský Mikuláš
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1987
Place of death Bratislava