Milan Ráček

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Milan Ráček

Milan Ráček (born October 29, 1943 in Zlín ) is a Czech - Austrian museologist and writer .

Life

After primary school, Ráček graduated from the Higher Technical College for Aircraft Construction in Uherské Hradiště from 1958 to 1962 and then did two years of military service without a weapon in the Czechoslovak Army until 1964 .

From 1964 to 1966 he attended the technical school for museology in the National Museum (Prague) and worked for one year as an intern at the Mecklenburg biological station Serrahn in the GDR and another year in the museums in Olomouc and Šumperk before he emigrated to Austria and himself in 1968 first settled in Vienna . In Czechoslovakia he was then sentenced in absentia to 12 months in prison for “subversive activity” and “illegal stay abroad”.

In 1969 he began to work at the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich , where he worked until his retirement, first in Vienna and later in St. Pölten , most recently as director of the gallery for contemporary art “Exhibition Bridge” in the government district of St. Pölten.

In 1978 he moved from Vienna to Sitzendorf an der Schmida , where between 1981 and 1990 he and his wife Irena Ráček organized the Sitzendorfer Kulturtage with a focus on the culture of the neighbors . Ráček has been a freelance writer since 2005.

Ráček is a member of the Austrian PEN Club and the authors' association PODIUM and is married to the artist Irena Ráček .

bibliography

Technical and non-fiction books

  • 1976: Biological preparation. Workbook for those interested in institutes and schools (together with Heinrich Echsel) - Verl. Jugend & Volk Wien (specialist book) ( ISBN 3-7141-5245-8 )
  • 1985: Those who did not become earth ... - Cultural history of conservative burial forms - Verl. Böhlau Vienna / Cologne (non-fiction book) ( ISBN 3-205-07244-8 )
  • 1990: Mumia Viva: A cultural history of human and animal preparation - Verl. Akad. Dr.- u. Verl.-Anst. (Non-fiction book) ( ISBN 3-201-01511-3 )
  • 2004: Artists in the country - artists from the Weinviertel region - South Moravia - West Slovakia (editor); Weinviertler Festival 2004 (catalog; 74 artists in brief portraits)

Fiction

  • 1999: Leo: A postscript (together with Richard Pils and Martha Griebler ) - Verl. Publication PN ° 1 - Bibliothek d. Province, Weitra ( ISBN 3-85252-329-X )
  • 2001: The anniversary - a hearty culinary story - Verl. Publication PN ° 1 - Bibliothek d. Province, Weitra ( ISBN 3-85252-421-0 )
  • 2003: The return - in the shadow of Hamidou - publisher. Publication PN ° 1 provincial library, Weitra ( ISBN 3-85252-463-6 )
  • 2005: Too much for a lifetime - publ. Edition VA BENE Klosterneuburg, Vienna ( ISBN 3-85167-178-3 )
  • 2009: HochZeiten - marriage stories that one would have liked to keep secret (bilingual, German and Czech) - Ed. Edition Roesner Mödling, Maria Enzersdorf ( ISBN 978-3-902300-46-1 )
  • 2010: The bright way in the darkness - Verl. Literaturedition Niederösterreich, St.Pölten ( ISBN 978-3-902717-09-2 )
  • 2015: Freedom behind the barbed wire ...: Splinters of life until 1968 - Ed. Edition Roesner Mödling, Maria Enzersdorf ( ISBN 978-3-902300-96-6 )

Translations

  • 1989: Robber Captain Grasl Play by Helmut Korher
  • 2002: Leo: Ein Postscriptum - Verlag Ottobre12, Velehrad

items

  • 1998: Encounters with preserved bodies of long dead people in “Body Without Life”.
  • 1998: Attempts in the past and present to keep the dead body as unchanged as possible in "Body Without Life".
  • 1998: Ambivalent impression of mummified bodies on display in "Body Without Life".
  • 2003: Cultural exchange then and now in "Culture Without Borders", pp. 66 ff.

Honourings and prices

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Table of contents "Body without life"
  2. ↑ Table of contents "Culture without borders"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Ráček, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Austrian museologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Zlín