Jan Weiss

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Jan Weiss, ca.1942

Jan Weiss (born May 10, 1892 in Jilemnice , † March 7, 1972 in Prague ) was a Czech writer and is counted among the most idiosyncratic and distinctive representatives of Czech literature.

Life

He was a ministerial official from 1920 to 1947; he was suspended from work during the German occupation. He first had to process his experiences during the First World War on the Italian and Russian fronts for himself before he could experience his literary debut at the age of 35. In 1927 the short story volumes Die Baracke des Todes , Der belated Spiegel , and the humoresque Das Phantom des Lachens appeared almost simultaneously . His best-known work was published in 1929: The House with a Thousand Storeys , a novel with the warning vision of a perfected technocratic world in which people suffer from a refined, power-hungry dictatorship. It was published in 1977 in German translation in the GDR.

In 1957 Jan Weiss was honored with the title of Honored Artist of Czechoslovakia . Since the late 1950s, he turned more to the science fiction genre.

bibliography

Novels
  • Fantóm smíchu (1927)
  • Dům o tisíci patrech (1929)
  • Škola zločinu (1931, also as Zázračné ruce , 1943)
  • Mlčeti zlato (1933)
  • Spáč ve zvěrokruhu Praha (1937)
  • Přišel z hor (1941)
  • Volání o pomoc (1946)
  • Meteor strýce Žulijána (1947)
    • English: The enigmatic meteor. cape series # 102. Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1970.
Volumes of short stories
  • Zrcadlo, které se opožďuje (1927)
  • Barák smrti (1927)
  • Bláznivý regiment (1930)
  • Nosič nábytku (1941)
  • Povídky o lásce a nenávisti (1944)
  • Příběhy staré i nové (1954)
  • Lojzka (1956)
  • Země vnuků (1957)
  • Družice a hvězdoplavci (1960)
  • Bianka Braselli, dáma se dvěma hlavami (1961)
  • Hádání o budoucím (1963)
  • Zrcadlo, které se opožďuje (1964)
  • Bláznivý regiment (1979)
  • Lidé ve zvěrokruhu (1980)
  • Fantóm smíchu a jiné grotesky (1986)

Film adaptations

  • 1968: The sweet time with Kaligmadora (Script: Leopold Lahola)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Jilemnice
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1972
Place of death Prague