Karel Vaněk (Author)
Karel Vaněk (born March 17, 1887 in Černý Kostelec , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; died July 18, 1933 in Prague ) was a Czech journalist and writer .
Life
Karel Vaněk was a columnist and writer of cheerful newspaper articles, which he also published in edited volumes. During the First World War he was a soldier on the Eastern Front . After the war he worked for the communist newspaper Rudé právo and the weekly Pražský ilustrovaný zpravodaj (Prague illustrated reporter). Vaněk was friends with Jaroslav Hašek . When he suddenly died in 1923 while working on the multi-part novel The good soldier Schwejk , Vaněk was commissioned by the publisher Synek to complete the fourth part. Vaněk's The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk in Russian Captivity was published in 1923 and, like the other volumes, was illustrated by Josef Lada . Vaněk's style differs from Hašek's and his sense of humor is judged to be “rough”.
Karel Vaněk died of tuberculosis in 1933.
Hašek and Vaněk's books were burned in the German Reich in 1933 .
Fonts (selection)
- Charašó pán, there? zážitky z let 1914-1919 . Prague: A. Synek, 1920
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Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka v ruském zajetí . Prague: Synek, 1923
- The adventures of the good soldier Schweik in Russian captivity . 2 volumes. Translation of Grete Reiner . Illustrations Josef Lada . Prague: A. Synek, 1927/28
- The fate of the good soldier Schweik in Russian captivity . Translation Josef Fuchs. Frankfurt am Main: Herchen, 1993 ISBN 3-89184-134-5
- Švejk v ruském zajetí v revoluci . Prague: Českoslov. Spisovate, 1991 ISBN 80-202-0275-7 . Ed. Radko Pytlík
- Střepiny: věci a věcičky z 1921–1923 . Prague: Nákladem vlastním, 1924
- Čtvrt kila střepin . Prague: Nákladem vlastním, 1925
- Třetí kniha střepin . Prague: Nákladem vlastním, 1927
- Nůše střepin . Prague: Nákladem vlastním, 1930
- Kráva matky Ungrové a všecko, co se kolem ní zběhlo . Prague: Nákladem vlastním, 1930
- Poslední střepiny . Prague: Melantrich, 1934
literature
- Lexicon české literatury: osobnosti, díla, instituce . Prague: Acad., 2008 ISBN 978-80-200-1671-3
- Josef Musil: Karel Vaněk a my všichni , at gasbag (blog) (cs)
Web links
- Literature by and about Karel Vaněk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Karel Vaněk in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spisovatelé komunisté komunistickým dělníkům , fn. 49, p. 444
- ↑ Veronika Krabsová (Laufková): Postava Josefa Svejka , bachelor thesis at Josef Peterka , Charles University, 2010 [PDF]
- ↑ Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , p. 216
- ↑ Photo of the book cover in the Russian Wikipedia (graphic designer not identified, therefore observe copyrights)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaněk, Karel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Černý Kostelec |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1933 |
| Place of death | Prague |