Josef Václav Frič

Josef Václav Frič

Josef Václav Frič (pseudonym M. Brodský ) (born August 5, 1829 in Prague ; † October 14, 1890 ibid) was a Czech romantic writer , journalist and politician .

biography

He was the son of the Prague lawyer and patriot Josef František Frič . While attending the academic high school in Prague, he decided to become a poet.

In 1848 he was elected spokesman for the radical Slávie student movement and, together with Johann Rittig, was one of the leaders of the students who fought on the barricades after the outbreak of the uprising. After the crackdown on the Prague uprising in 1848, the leader of the student movement left Prague and moved to Slovakia . Here he took part in the uprising against the Hungarians .

After his return to Prague he founded the Bohemian-Moravian Brotherhood (Českomoravské bratrstvo) with his comrades in arms. He was arrested the same year and sentenced on May 10, 1851 to eighteen years in prison for treason. He had to serve his sentence in the Hungarian city of Komárom , today Komárno , Slovakia . While there, he wrote some of his works. In April 1854 he was pardoned. On his return he tried in vain to publish a magazine.

In 1858 he was arrested again for "incorrigibility" and released a year later on condition that he emigrate immediately. He went to London , but in the same year moved to Paris and later to Berlin . From abroad he continued to wage relentless struggle against the Austrian monarchy .

Frič's values ​​were unrealistic. The hopelessness of what he was doing, tiredness, deprivation and longing for his homeland forced him to give up his fight. In the seventies he lived in Budapest and Zagreb . He was only allowed to return home in 1880.

On his return he found a new world that he did not understand. He found a generation with new values, different longings. He then devoted himself only to literature and wrote for youth magazines. Politically, he resigned entirely.

Works

JV Frič wrote for many newspapers and magazines. His poems Písně z bašty (Songs from the Bastion), a collection of romantic poetry, was not published until after his death. He also wrote dramas about personalities of history ( Wenceslaus IV , Svatopluk and Rostislav , Hynek z Poděbrad ).

In 1855 he published the almanac Lada-Nióla , in which young authors in particular were able to publicize their ideas. He also belonged to the Májovci group and worked with them on the publication of the Máj almanac .

literature

• V. Žáček: Josef Václav Frič . Prague 1979.

See also

• List of Czech writers