Jiří Mucha

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Jiří Mucha (right) with Vítězslava Kaprálová

Jiří Mucha (born March 12, 1915 in Prague ; † April 5, 1991 there ) was a Czech cosmopolitan , writer , publicist and screenwriter .

Life

The son of the painter and graphic artist Alfons Mucha worked as a war correspondent for the London BBC during the Second World War . After his return to Czechoslovakia , he published his sensational debut work Most (The Bridge). In 1951 he was sentenced by the communist government to six years of imprisonment and forced labor in coal and uranium mines for political reasons, where he mainly worked as a doctor and was given amnesty in 1955 , later he was rehabilitated .

Memberships

From 1989 Mucha was chairman of the PEN Club in the Czech Republic .

Works

Novels

  • Most (1946) (Fate of Czechoslovak soldiers in the French army at the beginning of the Second World War) ISBN 80-85876-19-1
  • Oheň proti ohni (1947) (diary about war operations on different fronts with memories of his time as a war reporter 1943 to 1945) ISBN 80-7281-032-4
  • Spálená setba (1948) (The author's memories of his return to his homeland, with reports on the events of the World War from the perspective of soldiers and people who lived in the protectorate). ISBN 80-7281-061-8
  • Pravděpodobná tvář (One of Mucha's most successful books, in which the atmosphere of the 1950s in Czechoslovakia is described, the time of fear, interrogation and imprisonment, partly autobiographical). ISBN 80-7281-115-0
  • Podivné lásky (Describes the life of the Czech emigrants in France at the beginning of the Second World War and his first marriage to the composer Vítězslava Kaprálová) ISBN 80-7281-161-4
  • Čím zraje čas / Černý a bílý New York (Two books on the writer's journalistic activities) ISBN 80-7281-100-2
  • Problémy nadporučíka Knappa (narrative cycle from the beginning of the Second World War describes the experiences of Czechoslovak soldiers in the service of foreign armies). ISBN 80-7281-007-3
  • Skleněná stěna / Válka pokračuje (description of the conditions in Czechoslovakia after the Communists came to power before 1951) ISBN 80-7281-076-6
  • Věčná zahrada (autobiographical life of a person who wanders through the history of his country in his mind). ISBN 80-7281-107-X

German-language literature

  • Alfons Mucha . An artist's life. (Original title: Kankán se svatozáří. Životopis Alfonse Muchy , Obelisk, Praha 1969, translated by Gustav Just). Volk und Welt , Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-353-00015-1 (monograph by his father, the world-famous Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha, about his successful life and work in Paris and his friendship with local spiritualists Sarah Bernhardt and Camille Flammarion , as well as his Return to pre-war Czechoslovakia. With numerous photo documentation).
  • Cold sun (original title: Studené slunce , translated by Dorothea Countess Razumovsky ). Goverts, Stuttgart 1969
  • Return to Ninive [novel] (original title: Spálená Setba , translated by Eduard Kleinschnitz). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1950.

Filmography

  • Weg zu Dir ( Roztržka ), 1956, drama (script together with Zbyněk Brynych , Miroslav Hubáček) - everyday stories in an everyday marriage.
  • Povodeň (1958)
  • Noční návštěva (1958) - short film
  • První a poslední (1959)
  • On a secret wave ( Kohout plaší smrt ) 1961, spy film (screenplay with Vladimír Čech and Luděk Stanek)
  • Vánice (1962)
  • His Majesty - colleague König ( Král králů ), 1963, drama - Alois König, played by Vladimír Leraus , fitter in a Prague factory, becomes heir to the throne of King Muhammad VI. al-Habib
  • Flám (1966) - participation in dialogues
  • Mučedníci lásky (1966)
  • Sedm havranů (1967)

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personal data
SURNAME Mucha, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mucha, Jiri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech cosmopolitan, writer, publicist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1991
Place of death Prague