Michal Mareš

Michal Mareš memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Teplitz .

Birthplace in Teplitz .

Michal J. Mareš (born January 22, 1893 in Teplitz as Josef Maresch, officially Michal Mareš since 1955 ; † February 17, 1971 in Prague ) was a Czech journalist , poet and columnist .

Life

Mareš was born in Teplitz in 1893 as the son of the locksmith's assistant Josef Maresch (born November 15, 1867 in Maschau ) and his wife Katharina Solnař. Since 1910 he participated in the Czech anarchist movement . Later he was a long member of the editorial board of the Prager Tagblatt . After 1919 he left the Catholic Church with his parents and declared himself non-denominational.

After the Second World War he worked for the newspaper Dnešek ( "Today" ). He was briefly a member of the Communist Party (KSČ) but fell out of favor because of critical reports of corruption in connection with evictions and resettlements in the border areas. After the 1948 coup , he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and loss of civil rights. He was not rehabilitated until twenty years after his death. Mareš is considered an important contemporary witness and expert on Franz Kafkas , Max Brods and Jaroslav Hašek .

Works

Disharmony. Básně prosou a veršem. (Poems) Kr. Vyšehrad, undated, Praha.
Policejní šťára. ( »Police raid« ) Večernice, 1922, Prague.

Individual evidence

↑ Gustav Janouch: Jaroslav Hašek. The father of the good soldier Schweik. Francke-Verlag, Bern, Munich, 1966, p. 289
^ David Gerlach: For nation and gain: Economy, ethnicity and politics in the Czech borderlands, 1945–1948. Doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2007, pp. 118ff.

Web links

Commons : Michal Mareš - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature and other media by and about Michal Mareš in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Literature by and about Michal Mareš in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Mareš, Michal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mareš, Michal J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech journalist, poet and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Teplitz
DATE OF DEATH	17th February 1971
Place of death	Prague

[Janouch-1] Gustav Janouch: Jaroslav Hašek. The father of the good soldier Schweik. Francke-Verlag, Bern, Munich, 1966, p. 289

[2] David Gerlach: For nation and gain: Economy, ethnicity and politics in the Czech borderlands, 1945–1948. Doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2007, pp. 118ff.