Květa Legátová
Květa Legátová (born November 3, 1919 in Podolí as Věra Hofmanová ; died December 22, 2012 ) was a Czech writer.
Life
Věra Hofmanová, daughter of a village school teacher, studied Czech, German, physics and mathematics at the Masaryk University in Brno , after which she worked as a teacher. As a schoolgirl she wrote skits for the radio in Brno. As a young teacher, she was sent to Nový Hrozenkov on the border between Moravia and Slovakia in the late 1940s , as a kind of punitive transfer. The self-confident woman who never joined the Communist Party was considered politically unreliable by the regime. She looked for her pseudonyms, under which she published, under the names of her friends. She made her debut in 1957 under the pseudonym Věra Podhorná with the book Figurinen . She was one of the authors of the first years of Host do domu ("Guest in the House") and of the "Brno Radio Play School". Then came a break of over twenty years. "I couldn't write everything, the political pressure was too great."
In 2002 Květa Legátová received the Czech State Prize for Literature for Želary (published 2001) .
Works (selection)
- Postavičky , 1957
- Korda Dabrová - Il. František Miroslav Doubrava, Brno 1961, book for young people
- Želary , 2001
- Jozova Hanule , 2002
- Pro každého nebe , 2003
- Posedlá a jiné hry , Paseka 2004
- Návraty do Želar (rozhovor s D. Kaprálovou) , 2005
- Nic není tak prosté , 2006
- Mušle a jiné odposlechy , 2007
- Mimo tento čas , 2008
Works in German
- The people of Želary , novella (original title: Želary , translated by Sophia Marzolff). dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-21275-5 .
- The man from Želary , novella (original title: Jozova Hanule , translated by Sophia Marzolff), dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-21275-5 / ISBN 978-3-423-25301-7 (large print), as an audio book : The man from Želary , unabridged reading by Eva Mattes , audio book Hamburg , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89903-244-4 .
filming
Ondřej Trojan filmed the story Jozova Hanule under the title Zelary in 2003 and received an Oscar nomination for it in 2004 for the best foreign language film . Performers included Zita Kabátová , Edita Malovčić , Iva Bittová , Svatopluk Beneš and György Cserhalmi . The leading actress Anna Geislerová received the Undine Award in 2004 for the best young actress from the new EU countries.
literature
- I am a very good listener . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2004; Interview.
Web links
- Literature by and about Květa Legátová in the catalog of the German National Library
- Květa legátová in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zelary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Květa Legátová at perlentaucher.de
- Květa Legátová in the portal Český jazyk (Czech).
- Květa Legátová . (PDF; 152 kB; 7 pages) at the Masaryk University of Brno .
Individual evidence
- ↑ I am a very good listener . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2004; Interview.
- ^ Writer Legátová died at the age of 93 . Radio Prague , December 22, 2012; Retrieved December 22, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Legátová, Květa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Podhorná, Věra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Podolí u Brna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 2012 |