Jan Grossman

Jan Grossman (1981)

Jan Grossman (born May 23, 1925 in Prague ; † February 10, 1993 ibid) was a Czech theater director, literary and theater critic.

Life

He already wrote while he was still in high school and was a member of the Hnutí za svobodu (Movement for Freedom) during World War II . After the end of the war, he studied comparative literature and aesthetics at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague .

In 1946 he was lecturer at the Národní divadlo drama theater (National Theater Prague), and until 1953 dramaturge of the State Theater in Brno. Until 1956 he took over the dramaturgy in Burian's army theater Déčko (Das D). He worked as a publisher's editor until 1959, but returned to the theater and became the dramaturge of the Laterna Magica, which was banned in 1961 . Until 1968 he took over the dramaturgy at the Divadlo Na zábradlí (Theater am Geländer).

Works

Literary works

• Analýzy (analyzes) . 1991
• Svědectví současníků (The Testimony of Contemporaries), 1996
• Inscenace , 1997
• Texty o divadle (texts on theater), 1999

Director

• Král Ubu ( King Ubu ), 1964 ( Alfred Jarry )
• Vyrozumění (The Understanding), 1965 ( Václav Havel )
• Proces ( The Trial ), 1966 ( Franz Kafka )
• Škola pro ženy ( School for Women ), 1984 ( Molière )
• Largo desolato , 1990 (Václav Havel)
• Pokoušení (The Temptation), 1992 (Václav Havel)

literature

• Dieter Segert: The borders of Eastern Europe. 1918, 1945, 1989, three attempts to arrive in the West . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-593-37020-4 (mention of Jan Grossman, who directed Jaroslav Hašek or Bertolt Brecht in Cheb or Hradec Králové )

Web links

Commons : Jan Grossman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• January Grossman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Jan Grossman in the catalog of the German National Library