Emil Vachek

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Emil Vachek (born February 2, 1889 in Hradec Králové , † May 1, 1964 in Prague ) was a Czech writer and journalist.

Life

Emil Vachek grew up in Hradec Králové and attended the secondary school there, then the commercial academy and a private commercial school in Prague without graduating. From 1911 he worked as a journalist in Prague; from 1924 to 1927 he was the editor of Právu lidu , from 1927 to 1929 for the Pilsener magazine Pramen , also an employee of the Evropský literární klub and the literary group Sfinx .

Works

His literary work is dominated by humorous short prose as well as novels and detective novels influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis , in which he rebels against the prevailing conventions of bourgeois morality; such issues were anti-Semitism and prostitution . From 1926 to 1931 he wrote the novel trilogy Chám Dynybyl , during this time also the detective novels Tajemství obrazárny , Muž a stín , Zlá minuta with the literary figure of Inspector Klubíčko , in 1927 the novel Bidýlko , the fantastic novel Pán světa and the documentary cycle Německá válka ( 1945 - 1947 ).

His detective novels were adapted in numerous films from 1933, most recently in 2007 in the film Muž a stín directed by Dušan Klein with Miroslav Donutil in the role of the detective Klubíčka, in the same year Zlá minuta directed by Pavel Kačírek , with Miroslav Donutil in the main role.

The short story When Wedding Feast (t: Gustav Just ) appeared in the anthology "A Prague Sherlock Holmes - Czech Humoresken." Berlin, Verlag der Nation, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=888
  2. ↑ http://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=LitNII/13.1964/19/12.png
personal data
SURNAME Vachek, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hradec Králové
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1964
Place of death Prague