Eva Kantůrková

Eva Kantůrková (2010)

Eva Kantůrková (born May 11, 1930 in Prague ) is a Czech prose writer, dramaturge and former dissident.

Life

Eva Kantůrková comes from a family of writers. Her father Jiří Síla was a communist journalist, her mother Bohumila Sílová a writer. After completing her studies in philosophy at Charles University in Prague in 1956, she worked for the Youth Association (Svaz mládeže) until 1958 and at the Czechoslovak Institute for Book Culture until 1967. After that she devoted herself only to literature. She was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and got involved in the Prague Spring 1968. In 1970 she resigned from the party and her works were banned. From then on, Kantůrková wrote for exile magazines and published her works in exile publishers. She was a signatory to Charter 77 and from January 6, 1985 to January 7, 1986 its spokesperson. As a dissident, she was detained from May 6, 1981 to March 22, 1982. After the Velvet Revolution , she got involved in the citizens' forum (Občanské fórum). From 1990 to 1992 she was a member of the Czech National Council.

Memberships

• Obec spisovatelů (Czech Writers' Union)

Works

• Jen tak si maličko povyskočit, 1966 - a collection of psychological stories
• Smuteční slavnost, 1967 - A socially critical novel. It describes the funeral of a communist functionary. The reader is led back to the time of the communists' seizure of power in 1948, and learns of the nationalization of property and the collectivization of agriculture.
• Po potopě, 1969 - novel. The heroine, painter and mother of an adolescent girl breaks down mentally after separating from her husband.
• Nulový bod, 1970 - A ministry official was deprived of his career in 1948. Things go wrong in his life too and he thinks of suicide.
• Černá hvězda, Cologne 1982, Prague 1992 - The fate of a left-wing journalist who experienced the time of disillusionment and the decline of the values ​​of life.
• Člověk v závěsu, Cologne 1977, Prague 1988 - collection of novels
• Pozůstalost pana Ábela, 1977 Cologne, 1990 Prague
• Pán věže, 1979 self-published, 1992 Prague - Roman.
• Girlfriends from the House of Sadness . Přítelkyně z domu smutku, Cologne 1984, Prague 1990, German 2003. The author's autobiographical novel from the time in prison. Filmed as a television series in 1993 in the Czech Republic.
• Jan Hus: příspěvek k národní identitě, 1986 self-published - historical study of the life of Jan Hus
• Památník, 1994 - autobiographical diary
• Záznamy paměti, 1997
• Zahrada dětství jménem Eden, 1998
• Nejsi, 1999 - book dealing with the death of her husband.
• Nečas, 2000 - autobiographical novel

In German language

• Girlfriends from the house of sadness, novel, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2003, ISBN 3421052492 , reading sample and reviews
• Prohibited citizens. Women of Charter 77, Albert - Georg Müller Verlag (1982)

Film adaptations

• 1969: Anger and Sorrow ( Smuteční slavnost ) - directed by Zdeněk Sirový
• 2015: Jan Hus - Director: Jiří Svoboda

literature

• The ČSSR - Gulag . A report of Charter 77 by Reinhard Gnauck (preface), International Society for Human Rights (1988)

Web links

Commons : Eva Kantůrková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eva Kantůrková in the catalog of the German National Library
• Who is who in who history of the 20th century
• interview