Jára Cimrman

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Bust of the fictional Jára Cimrman
Memorial plaque on house number 21 in Ferdinandov , where Cimrman is said to have been "last seen" in 1914

Jára (da) Cimrman is a fictional character and serves as the main character of the Divadlo Járy Cimrmana (Jára Cimrman Theater), which is devoted to his alleged life and work.

About Jára Cimrman

The figure appeared for the first time in a radio program in 1966 and, during socialism, also developed into an object of silent resistance and a projection surface for possibilities to freely shape one's own life that were not feasible at the time. As a result, Cimrman became a “virtual” national hero whose virtual existence has been cultivated and developed by numerous people and the media over the years through reports on fictional events from his life.

The main authors and main actors of the plays performed in the theater are Zdeněk Svěrák , Ladislav Smoljak and (in the early years) Jiří Šebánek (1930–2007). They pretend to research Cimrman scientifically and introduce their audiences to their respective new discoveries.

The theater was created in 1966 from a radio program, the "Alcohol-free wine tavern to the spider" ("Nealkoholická vinárna U Pavouka", first broadcast December 23, 1966), the first play (?) "Akt" followed by 14 other pieces over the next 30 years.

The most important characteristics of this theater are in addition to the typical form (the performance is divided into a pseudo-scientific seminar and a play allegedly written by Cimrman) also the use of "non-actors" (are amateur actors meant?) And inventions (?) ( Pretending the existence of Cimrman). It is characterized by strongly parodic elements.

All performances have one theme: the exploration of Cimrman's work. The actors play scientists - cimrmanologists - who present new finds and discoveries in each piece (in the seminar part) and then perform a piece from the hand of the “master”. The performances are usually sold out well in advance.

meaning

Cimrman's monument at the Kaproun train stop , as a reminder of the master's exclusion from train traffic

When Czech television organized a survey “The Greatest Czech” in the Czech Republic in 2005, Jára Cimrman may even have taken the lead, outperforming personalities such as Wenceslaus of Bohemia , Charles IV , Jan Hus , Comenius and Václav Havel . However, after a meeting with the license owner BBC, he was excluded from the competition as a fictional personality, which many Czechs found outrageous. The number of votes cast for Cimrman has not been published.

Some streets in the Czech Republic are named after Jára Cimrman. In addition, an asteroid discovered in 1996 by the Czech astronomer Zdeněk Moravec bears the name (7796) Járacimrman . In 2004, the Czech arachnologist František Kovařík named the Thai scorpion Heterometrus cimrmani after Cimrman in his first description and stated: “Named after Jára Cimrman, a very well-known Czech polymath . Jára Cimrman bred large heterometri from Thailand and Malaysia and noted that there must be two species with different sexual dimorphism (Heterometrus spinifer and the species described here). Unfortunately, he did not publish his observations. "

Between 1967 and 2007 there were almost 11,000 performances, which corresponds to an average of 275 performances per year. The performances are often sold out up to two months in advance. In addition, nearly a million records, audio cassettes and CDs were sold.

Plays around Jára Cimrman

(The officially named authors are next to the fictional Jára Cimrman, Zdeněk Svěrák and Ladislav Smoljak)

  1. Act: Rodinné drama se zpěvy a tanci (Act: family drama with song and dance; premiere: October 4, 1967)
  2. Vyšetřování ztráty třídní knihy (investigation into the disappearance of the class register; premiere: October 4, 1967)
  3. Hospoda na mýtince (The restaurant in the clearing; premiere: April 17, 1969)
  4. Vražda v salonním coupé (murder in the salon coupé; premiere: 14 May 1970)
  5. Němý Bobeš aneb Český Tarzan (The silent Bobeš or the Czech Tarzan; premiere: November 24, 1971)
  6. Cimrman v říši hudby (Cimrman in the realm of music; premiere: May 3, 1973)
  7. Dlouhý, Široký a Krátkozraký: Pohádka, která u dětí propadla (The tall , wide and short-sighted: a fairy tale that failed among children; premiere: October 17, 1974)
  8. Posel z Liptákova (The Messenger from Liptákov; Premiere: April 20, 1977)
  9. Lijavec: Hra s opravdovým deštěm (The torrential rain: A piece with real rain; Premiere: January 22, 1982)
  10. Dobytí severního pólu Čechem Karlem Němcem 5. dubna 1909 (The conquest of the North Pole by the Czech Karl Deutscher; premiere: October 25, 1985)
  11. Blaník: Jevištní podoba historického mýtu (Blaník: The stage form of historical myth ; Premiere: May 16, 1990)
  12. Záskok: Cimrmanova hra o nešťastné premiéře hry Vlasta (Representation: Cimrman's play about the unfortunate premiere of the play Vlasta; premiere: March 27, 1994)
  13. Švestka: Jevištní sklerotikon (The plum tree : A stage sclerotikon ; premiere: November 14, 1997)
  14. Africa: Češi mezi lidožravci (Africa: Czechs among ogres ; premiere: October 4, 2002)
  15. České nebe: Cimrmanův dramatický kšaft (Czech Heaven October 30, 2008)

Movie

The fictional life of Jára Cimrman was filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1983, under the title Jára Cimrman ležící, spící (German: "Jára Cimrman lying, sleeping"). Direction: Ladislav Smoljak, script: Zdeněk Svěrák and Ladislav Smoljak, with Zdeněk Svěrák as Cimrman.

Web links

Commons : Jára Cimrman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ František Kovařík: A review of the genus Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, with descriptions of seven new species (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae). In: Euscorpius , 2004, No. 15, pp. 1-60, online PDFhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.marshall.edu%2Ffet%2Feuscorpius%2Fp2004_15.pdf~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3DOnline% 20PDF ~ PUR% 3D , 6.3 MB.
  2. ↑ Statistics DJC 1967-2007, in Týden, issue 40/2007. P. 16