Ludvík Vaculík

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Ludvík Vaculík (born July 23, 1926 in Brumov , † June 6, 2015 in Prague ) was a Czech writer .

Life

Vaculík was trained as a shoemaker in the Baťa shoe factory in Zlin from 1942 to 1943 , where he continued to work until 1946. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Prague School of Politics and Social Sciences.

He worked as an educator in apprentice homes, from 1953 to 1957 as an editor in the department for political literature at the party organ Rudé právo , then as an editor for youth programs at the Czechoslovak Radio . Finally, in 1965, he started working for Literární noviny magazine . His literary breakthrough came with the novella Das Beil (1966), which, along with Kundera's Der Scherz, was one of the most discussed Czech publications of the second half of the 1960s. At the 4th Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers' Union in June 1967, he did not hold back with his criticism of the social development in Czechoslovakia. “Vaculík's speech caused a shock to the writers gathered in the room, although the majority shared his views. He had broken all the taboos that he and his colleagues had observed so far in order not to endanger the limited freedom of their association and their press. The KPČ had not been so clearly criticized in public since February 1948. ”He was then expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), to which he had been a member since 1945.

In the Prague Spring he emerged through the 2000 Words Manifesto , a general public analysis of totalitarian power. Later he was one of the co-founders of “ Charter 77 ”, the Czech human rights group formed following the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ). As a dissident, Vaculík was persecuted and personally defamed by the state security authorities until the fall of the Wall.

In the 1970s he founded the Samizdat publishing house Edice Petlice (publishing house behind bars), in which he distributed almost 400 works by banned authors on his own until 1989. Daydreams also appeared in it . Every day of the year (Petlice 1981, Toronto 1983, Brno 1990), which is one of his most important works.

After the fall of the Wall, Vaculík mainly wrote feature sections on daily problems.

Works (in German translation)

Awards

Memberships

literature

  • Rudolf Urban: The daring spirit. The IV Czechoslovakian Writers' Congress and its consequences, in: Osteuropa, 3 (1968), p. 180 .

Web links

Commons : Ludvík Vaculík  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Lexicon of Czech Literature after 1945), Czech
  2. ^ Alena Wagnerová : The skeptical optimist from Moravia. On the death of dissident Ludvík Vaculík . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 10, 2015, international edition. P. 49
  3. ↑ Reinhard Veser : The Prague Spring 1968 ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt, 2nd, revised edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-937967-31-8 , p. 33.
  4. ↑ Much more than 2000 words - On the death of Ludvík Vaculík . Radio Praha , June 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Vaculík, Ludvík
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, co-founder of the Czech human rights movement Charter 77
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brumov
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2015
Place of death Prague