Jaroslav Hutka
Jaroslav Hutka (born April 21, 1947 in Olomouc ) is a Czech songwriter , composer, songwriter and essayist .
Life
Jaroslav Hutka comes from a so-called "middle-class" family. The father ran a furniture business, which is why the family faced persecution and evictions in the early 1950s. In 1964 Hutka went to Prague to study art, bought a guitar and developed a repertoire of songs, which he performed in public places in Prague. Big concerts with their own songs soon followed. After the crackdown on the Prague Spring , he came into conflict with state authorities. As a signatory of Charter 77 , he was subjected to numerous harassment and persecution . In 1977 he was accused of running a business without a permit - this should prevent further occurrences. Today it is known that under the then Minister of the Interior Jaromír Obzina, around 280 signatories of the " Charter 77 " were forced to leave the country through physical and psychological harassment. In 1978 Hutka decided to emigrate and lived in the Netherlands until 1989 . He returned to Prague on November 25, 1989 . He was only allowed to leave the airport building after hours of negotiations with the authorities. His first appearances on the Letná plateau were enthusiastically received by around 1 million people.
At the invitation of the then Federal President Roman Herzog , Jaroslav Hutka and the delegation around Václav Havel came to Berlin in 1996 for a meeting of Czech and German dissidents and gave a concert in Bellevue Palace.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jaroslav Hutka sang his song "Namĕšť" on November 9, 2019 in the Berlin Chapel of Reconciliation after Chancellor Angela Merkel's speech .
Jaroslav Hutka lives in Prague today.
Discography
- Stůj, břízo zelená - Supraphon, Prague 1974/75 |
- Vandrovali hudci - Supraphon, Prague 1976
- Pravděpodobné vzdálenosti - Šafrán, Prague 1978; Uppsala 1979
- Minulost mává nám - Šafrán, Prague 1978; Uppsala 1979
- Here is mijn thuis (Zde domov můj) - Paladyn, Rotterdam 1984
- Nizozemí - 1988
- Návrat - Supraphon, Prague 1990
- Novinové sloupy - Šafrán, Prague 1990
- Vyjdi slunko - Šafrán, Prague 1990
- Jaroslav Hutka & Radim Hladík Pánbů na poli - Prague, Reflex 1991
- Selection from Návrat a Pánbů…, Pravděpodobné vzdálenosti, Stůj břízo zelená, Proč, Proč - Fosil 1998, Prague
- Vandrovali hudci - Sony music a Bonton, Prague 1999
- Slunečnice - Black Point, Prague 1999
- Tango o Praze - Black Point, Prague 1999
- Tak jako květ , 2011
Together with other musicians:
- Šafrán - Hutka, Lutka, Třešňák, Voňková - Supraphon, Prague 1977;
Prague 1990
- Zakázaní zpěváci druhé kultury - Marta Kubišová, Jaroslav Hutka, Vladimír Veit, Karel Soukup, Svatopluk Karásek, Vlasta Třešňák - Šafrán, Stockholm 1978; Uppsala 1982 (recorded in Prague in 1977)
- Křesťanské songy a podobenství - Multisonic, Prague 1990
source
- Michaela Nondková, Milena Vojtková, Jaroslav Hutka - Písničkář, básník, prozaik, fejetonista. Curriculum vitae in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Lexicon of Czech Literature after 1945), online at: hutka.cz/.../slovnik
- Doris Liebermann , Jürgen Fuchs , Vlasta Wallat (eds.): Dissidents, presidents and greengrocers. Czech and East German dissidents 1968–1998 (= publications by the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe. Vol. 11). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-678-2 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hutka, Jaroslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech songwriter, composer, songwriter and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |