JH Krchovský
JH Krchovský (born Jiří Hásek in Prague on April 22, 1960 ) is a Czech poet and singer . He lives in Brno . His pseudonym Krchovský means something like "from churchyard ". He is considered one of the most popular and widely read poets in the Czech Republic .
life and work
JH Krchovský became known in the Prague underground scene in the early 1980s and published in samizdat . His mentor was the poet and philosopher Egon Bondy . After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he received the Revolver Revue's literary prize , rearranged his poems and published them in several collections. In 2010 the preliminary complete edition Básně sebrané [ Collected Poems ] was published. His texts have been translated into numerous languages. Two volumes have been published in German in a translation by Ondřej Cikán .
style
Krchovský's poems are characterized by extreme precision of meter and extraordinary rhymes and are influenced by symbolism and decadence poetry , namely by Otokar Březina and František Gellner , with allusions to Karel Hynek Mácha also being obvious.
music
Krchovský's poems were often set to music, including by The Plastic People of the Universe . In 2007 JH Krchovský founded his own band Krch-OFF.
Publications in German translation
- Mummy on the road - an epic and other poems , trans. Ondřej Cikán, Vienna and Prague, 2018, ISBN 978-3-903124-00-4
- Jakoby - As if , prose, trans. Ondřej Cikán, Vienna and Prague, 2020, ISBN 978-3-903124-15-8
Discography of the band Krch-OFF
- Naposled [ For the last time ] (Guerilla Records, 2008)
- Jakože vůbec nic [ Like nothing ] (Guerilla Records, 2016)
Selected bibliography in Czech
- Básně sebrané [ Poems collected up to 2010], Brno, 2010, ISBN 978-80-7294-365-4
- Dvojité dno [ double bottom ], Brno, 2010, ISBN 978-80-7294-407-1
- Já už chci domů [ I want to go home already ], Brno, 2015, ISBN 978-80-7491-591-8
- Tak ještě jedno jaro tedy [ Then another spring ], illustr. Viktor Karlík, Prague, 2015, ISBN 978-80-87037-67-6
- Nekonečný kalendář [ Perpetual Calendar ], illustr. Fratišek Štorm, Brno, 2017, ISBN 978-80-7577-410-1
Web links
- Literature by and about JH Krchovský in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature and other media by and about JH Krchovský in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz
- www.lyrikline.org in translations by Urs Heftrich
- www.academia.edu in translations by Ondřej Cikán
Individual evidence
- ↑ 8,000 of his preliminary complete edition Básně sebrané [ Collected Poems ], Brno 2010, were sold within a few months, see p. Kateřina Kadlecová, Stanislav Krupař: Article in www.reflex.cz of May 4, 2010. See Martin Machovec: Writing Underground - Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia , Prague 2019, p. 98.
- ↑ See the author's notes on Mladost, Radost ... , Brno 2005, p. 71.
- ↑ revolverrevue.cz
- ↑ Ondřej Cikán: Nachw. Zu JH Krchovský: Mumie auf Reisen , Vienna and Prague 2018, pp. 84-104, offers a detailed bibliography of all translations by JH Krchovský into German, Danish, English, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Slovenian and Hungarian .
- ↑ S. Ondřej Cikán: Notes on JH Krchovský: Mumie auf Reisen , Vienna and Prague 2018, pp. 84-104. See the review of Mumie auf Reisen : (mh): Böhmisch-morbide Erotomanie , in: Lichtwolf 67, Herbst 2019, p. 92.
- ↑ www.zakk.de and www.guerilla.cz
- ↑ www.discogs.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krchovský, JH |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hásek, Jiří; Hasek, Jiri; Krchovsky, JH; Krchovský, Jiří Hásek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |