František Listopad

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František Listopad (birth name Jiří Synek ) (born November 26, 1921 in Prague ; † October 1, 2017 in Lisbon ) was a Czech and Portuguese writer , director and co-founder of the daily Mladá fronta (Young Front).

Life

In 1939 Listopad passed his Abitur examination and worked for the Linhart publishing house . During the Second World War he belonged to the resistance movement. After the war he began studying philosophy at Prague University , specializing in aesthetics and literature. After the Communists came to power in 1948 , Listopad went to Paris , where he worked as a craftsman and journalist, and later as a director for the ORTF . In 1959 Listopad moved to Portugal .

In France he worked for radio and television. From 1959 he worked in Portugal as a university professor at the Technical University in Lisbon, initially as a professor of Slavic culture and anthropology , from 1975 to 1977 as director of the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Políticas . In 1982 he accepted the position of director at the Portuguese Theater and Film School. At the same time he became a well-known television, theater and opera director. From 1984 to 1987 he was the director and dramaturge of the studio, an offshoot of the Portuguese national theater.

Works

Until his emigration he belonged to the dynamo-archaic poetry circle of the Mladá fronta together with Jan Grossman and Jaromír Hořec .

Memberships

plant

poetry

  • "Sláva uřknutí" (1945)
  • "Vzduch" (1948)
  • "Svoboda a jiné ovoce" (1956)
  • "Černý bílý, nevím" (Cologne, 1973)
  • "Nástroje paměti" (Munich, 1982)
  • "Soukromé sklenářství v Brně" (1991)
  • "Final Rondi" (1992)
  • "Oprava houslí a kytar" (1996)
  • "Krleš" (1998)
  • "Příští poezie" (2001)
  • "Milostná stěhování" (2001)
  • "Terra é carvão e limões" (Portuguese title, German: "The earth is coal and lemons", bilingual: Czech / German), from the Czech by Eduard Schreiber. With an afterword by the translator and a title graphic by Ludvík Kundera, hochroth Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-902871-49-7 , excerpt .

prose

  • "První věta"
  • "Malé lásky" (1947)
  • "Jarmark"
  • "Boj o Venezuelu" (1947)
  • "Umazané povídky" (1955)
  • "Zlý pes bez zahrady" (1996)
  • "Chinatown s Rózou" (2001)
  • “Rabbit”, 2007, Corvinus Presse Berlin, translated from Czech by Eduard Schreiber, with linocuts by Zoppe Voskuhl, ISBN 978-3-910172-98-2 .

Essays

  • "Tristan čili zrada vzdělance" (Vienna, 1954)
  • "Byty a prostory" (Munich, 1958)
  • "Tristan z města do města" (1997)
    • German: “Tristan. The death of the intellectual ”, translated and with an afterword by Eduard Schreiber, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88221-546-5 .

Anthologies

  • "Daleko blízko" (1993)
  • "První věty" (1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morreu Jorge Listopad, homem do teatro e herói de guerra sem dar por isso , accessed on October 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Listopad, František
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Synek, Jiří (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech and Portuguese writer, director
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2017
Place of death Lisbon