Dominik Tatarka

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Commemorative plaque for Dominik Tatarka in Prague

Dominik Tatarka (born March 14, 1913 in Plevník-Drienové , Austria-Hungary ; † May 10, 1989 in Bratislava , pseudonyms: tak , Vasil ) was a Slovak writer, essayist and publicist.

Life

Tatarka first went to primary school in Plevník, then studied at the grammar schools of Nitra and Trenčín , and successfully graduated with the final exams in 1934. Then he studied the Slovak, Czech and French languages at the philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague (1934 -38) and for a year he was also at the Sorbonne . During the Second World War he was professor of the Slovak and French languages ​​at grammar schools in Žilina and Turčiansky Sv. Martin , joined the KSČ and in 1944 took part in the Slovak National Uprising (SNP).

After the war he was a civil servant, an editor in several newspapers and a scriptwriter for the Československý film in Bratislava. In 1968 he opposed the invasion of the Soviet troops to crush the Prague Spring and in 1976 signed Charter 77 , which is why he had to disappear into the underground and was pursued by the StB . He died on May 10, 1989 in Bratislava.

Tatarka won the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1986 and is post mortem recipient of the Czechoslovak Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order, 1st class and the Slovak Ľudovít Štúr Order, 1st class.

In memory of Dominik Tatarka, the Dominik Tatarka Prize was founded, which is awarded annually as an important literary award.

Works

Works after 1968 are published as samizdat or by foreign publishers such as 68 Publishers .

  • 1942 - V úzkosti hľadania (In the Fear of Search), a short story about experiences around 1940
  • 1944 - Panna zázračnica (Miraculous Virgin), surrealist novella against the regime of the first Slovak Republic
  • 1948 - Farská republika ( Priests' Republic ), work on the totalitarian regime in the first Slovak Republic
  • 1950 - Prvý a druhý úder (First and Second Strike), reflection on the Second World War and the SNP
  • 1954 - Radostník , a novel about the origins of LPG
  • 1954 - Družné letá (Social Years), novel about "Building Socialism"
  • 1957 - Človek na cestách (man on the move), travelogue, reports from Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Mongolia
  • 1959 - Rozhovory bez konca (Endless Conversations), work about his experiences and facts of the SNP
  • 1963 - Prútené kreslá ( wicker armchair ), work on understanding between nations
  • 1963 - Démon súhlasu (Demon of Consent), two satirical anti-socialist prose works
  • Písačky , trilogy
    • 1984 - Listy do večnosti (Letters to Eternity)
    • 1988 - Sám proti noci (Alone against the night)
    • 1988 - Písačky
  • 1986 - V nečase (In the storm)
  • 1988 - Navrávačky , work about his life from childhood to old age
  • 1989 - Neslovný príbeh (Wordless Story)

literature

  • Tibor Pichler: Dominik Tatarka - a Slovak thought leader of the "Prague Spring" . In: Stefan Karner: Prague Spring. The international crisis year 1968 [Contributions by Natalja G. Tomilina, Alexander Tschubarjan, Günter Bischof, Viktor Iščenko, Michail Prozumenščikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Oldřich Tůma, Manfred Wilke and others. a.], Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20207-1 (pp. 1203-1216).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Tatarka Award. MR Stefanik Conservative Institute, accessed February 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Tatarka, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Plevník-Drienové
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1989
Place of death Bratislava