Ladislav Štoll

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Ladislav Štoll (born June 26, 1902 in Gablonz an der Neisse, today Jablonec nad Nisou , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † January 6, 1981 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak literary and art critic who represented the Stalinist line. As a politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , he was a member of the Czechoslovak government from 1953 to 1960.

Life

Ladislav Štoll was born in 1902 in the Bohemian town of Gablonz on the Neisse. His father was killed in the First World War . In 1926 Ladislav Štoll joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). From 1929 he worked as a journalist , where he also reviewed German-language literature . From 1934 to 1937 he stayed in Moscow and translated the writings of Marx and Engels from German into Czech. From 1937 he worked for the Czech printed matter Tvorba , a cultural magazine, and Rudé právo , a communist party newspaper . During the German occupation in the war years from 1939 to 1945, he did illegal party work.

In 1946 he became a professor and later rector at the University of Politics and Social Sciences in Prague. In 1953 he was the Czechoslovak Minister of Higher Education and from 1954 to 1960 Minister of Culture. As rector of the Institute for Social Sciences, he was subordinate to the Central Committee (ZK) of the KSČ from 1957 to 1961 . In 1960 Štoll became a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , in 1962 director of the Institute for Czech Literature in the same and finally vice-president of this institution. He was also a member of the Central Committee of KSČ and chairman of the committee for socialist culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

His son Ivan Štoll is a well-known physicist in the Czech Republic .

Conception of art

Ladislav Štoll was the highest Stalinist cultural guardian of his country, whose Marxist artistic taste the artists had to submit to. In formalism and abstraction he saw signs of a society that was decomposing. He assumed that the representatives of these directions lacked talent and dizziness or at least a lack of aesthetic sensibility. The people of a “advancing epoch”, on the other hand, are turned towards “objective beauty”. In his opinion, the artist must “disappear behind his work” because the recipient does not want to think about the artist's problems and speculate about coherence .

Works in German

  • Artist and reality. [German translation by Josefa Lenková.] Orbis, Prague 1948.
  • Thirty years of struggle for Czech socialist poetry. (Also includes: Science goes with the people and artists and reality .) Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1953.
  • Art and ideological struggle (= study library of Marxist-Leninist cultural and art studies ). Edited by Ilse Seehase. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d blurb on art and ideological struggle .
  2. ↑ Ladislav Štoll: Dear Arnold Zweig . In: Deutsche Akademie der Künste (Ed.): Sense and Form. Contributions to the literature . Arnold Zweig special. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1952, p. 20 .
  3. ↑ Natascha drubek-Meyer: Der Leichenverbrenner (1968) by Ladislav Fuks and its adaptation by Juraj Herz in the context of the Czech post-war prose about the Holocaust . In: Peter Kosta, Holt Meyer, Natascha Drubek-Meyer (eds.): Jews and Judaism in literature and film in the Slavic-speaking area. The ingenious epoch (=  Jewish culture. Studies on intellectual history, religion and literature . Volume 5 ). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04170-6 , p. 58 .
  4. ^ Peter Steiner: The Deserts of Bohemia. Czech Fiction and its Social Context . Cornell University Press, Ithaca / London 2000, ISBN 0-8014-3717-2 , Politics or Poetics: An Introduction, pp. 3 .
  5. ^ Peter Hames: Czech and Slovak Cinema. Theme and tradition . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2005, ISBN 978-0-7486-2081-4 , Chapter 5. The Holocaust, pp. 95-111 .
  6. ^ Nikolaus Lobkowicz: Marxism-Leninism in the ČSR. The Czechoslovak philosophy since 1945 (=  Sovietica ). D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1961, ISBN 978-94-010-3648-1 , Chapter 4. General characteristics b. The hierarchy of authorities, p. 94 (no ISBN-10 given).
  7. ↑ Ladislav Štoll: Art and ideological struggle . Ed .: Ilse Seehase (=  study library of Marxist-Leninist cultural and art studies ). Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975, Abstractionism and Ideology, p. 248-266 .
  8. ↑ Ladislav Štoll: Artists and Reality . Orbis, Prague 1948, p. 61 f .

literature

  • Jaroslava Heřtová: Ladislav Štoll. Horizont, Prague 1986. (Czech)
  • Drahomíra 'Kořínková, Štěpán' Vlašín: Bibliography díla Ladislava Štolla. Praha Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství, Prague 1974. (Czech)

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personal data
SURNAME Štoll, Ladislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak literary critic, art critic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Jablonec nad Nisou , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1981
Place of death Prague