Lenka Chytilová

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Lenka Chytilová (born May 11, 1952 in Hradec Králové ) is a Czech poet and translator.

Life

Lenka Chytilová first attended the Gymnázium JK Tyla in her native Hradec Králové until 1970. She then studied Czech and German at the Masaryk University (UJEP) in Brno . In 1975 she completed her studies with a thesis on the poet Paul Celan . She then worked as an editor of poems for the publishing house Kruh in Hradec Králové, which specialized in the region of Eastern Bohemia , i. H. Published non-fiction books related to the region as well as fiction by East Bohemian authors. In 1989 she was dismissed for political reasons, but was reinstated as editor-in-chief in 1990. She held this position for two years. She then worked for the Ivo Železný publishing house in Prague. Most recently she worked as a teacher for Czech language and literature at the Gymnázium JK Tyla in 2011.

At the end of the 1960s Chytilová began to publish poems in the local newspaper Pochodeň , in the following two decades she published in the magazines Mladý svět , Literární měsíčník and Mladá fronta , and later mainly in the Literární noviny .

In 1977 her first volume of poetry Dopisy (literally translated as "letters") was published by Kruh-Verlag. These were love poems. This was followed by Třetí planeta ("The Third Planet"), Proč racek přemýšlí ("Why does the seagull think"), where she took up the theme of childhood, and Průsvitný Sisyfos ("The transparent Sisyphus"). In Nebe nadoraz (1995) she turned to religious topics. Chytilová writes modern, reflexive poetry that strives for originality. She plays with the sound of words and their etymological relationships.

In the 1990s, Chytilová also translated works by other authors from German into Czech, among others. a. by Henry Seymour , Martin Eisele , Brigitte Huber and Charlotte Lamb.

Works

  • Dopisy. Kruh, Hradec Králové 1977.
  • Třetí planeta. Melancholic. Prague 1979.
  • Sometimes the female of the cuckoo writes to me: poems. With László Nagy. German by Reiner Kunze. Pongratz, Hauzenberg 1982, ISBN 978-3-923313-07-5 .
  • Proč racek přemýšlí. Kruh, Hradec Králové 1984.
  • Průsvitný Sisyfos. Kruh, Hradec Králové 1988.
  • Next to nadoraz. Alternatively, JM, 1995, ISBN 80-900733-3-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marie Mravcová, Karel Piorecký: Lenka Chytilová. In: Slovník české literatury, project of the Grantová agentura České republiky. 1995/2008. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Alena Přibáňová: Kruh. In: Slovník české literatury, project of the Grantová agentura České republiky. 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Rozpis Studentu u maturitní zkoušky website Gymnázium JK Tyla. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Chytilová, Lenka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet and representative of a current of the "lonely runners"
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hradec Králové