Pavel Tigrid

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Pavel Tigrid

Pavel Tigrid (born as Pavel Schönfeld ; born October 27, 1917 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † August 31, 2003 in Héricy , France ) was a Czech writer, journalist, editor and politician. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of Czechoslovak exile journalism . He first appeared under the pseudonym Pavel Tigrid, in June 1945 he finally had himself officially renamed.

Life

Pavel Tigrid was born into an assimilated Jewish family of the Schönfelds from Semily ; his parents had their son baptized. He was a relative of the writers Antal Stašek and Ivan Olbracht .

In the late 1930s he studied law at Charles University in Prague . During this time he founded the theater association Divadelní kolektiv mladých and published the student magazine Studentský časopis . In 1939, following the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , he fled to London , where he initially worked as a warehouse clerk and waiter. As a collaborator on Czech anti-fascist broadcasts on the BBC , he took the pseudonym Pavel Tigrid , which he kept until the end of his life. In London he also wrote articles in various magazines, including Kulturní zápisník (Czech, Slovak and English) and Review 42 (English).

After the end of the war he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he worked in the Foreign Ministry and in the press of the Czechoslovak Christian Democrats . He wrote for the Lidová demokracie and Obzory newspapers and was editor-in-chief of the weekly Vývoj . After the communist upheaval in February 1948, he fled to West Germany , where he helped found Radio Free Europe and directed the programs that were broadcast in Czechoslovakia. 1952–1960 he lived in the USA and then settled in Paris .

In 1956 he founded the magazine Svědectví ("Testimony") with Czech and Slovak articles, which was initially printed in the USA, from 1960 to 1990 in France and from 1990 in the Czech Republic . He became one of the most important spokesmen for the Czechoslovak exile , which consisted in particular of two major waves of emigration: the first after the communist takeover in February 1948 and the second during the so-called normalization following the Prague Spring of 1968.

After the Velvet Revolution he returned to Prague. From 1989 to 1992 he was an advisor to President Václav Havel , and from 1994 to 1996 he was Czech Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Václav Klaus . In 1996 he ran unsuccessfully for the Czech Senate elections , was 1997-1998 adviser to the President for Czech-German relations and then moved to France, where he died in 2003 in Héricy near Paris.

In Ostrava (Poruba district) a high school is named after him.

Plaque

Tigrids plaque in Prague

The memorial plaque for him in the street U Starého hřbitova in the Josefstadt has the following inscription (with German translation):

V TÉTO ULICI V DOMĚ Č. 3 / ŽIL V LETECH 1993–2003 / NOVINÁŘ A POLITIK PAVEL TIGRID / (1917–2003) / VYDAVATEL EXILOVÉHO / ČASOPISU SVĚDECTVÍ. / VÝZNAMNĚ PŘISPĚL K PÁDU KOMUNISMU / AK OBNOVĚ DEMOKRACIE / V NAŠÍ ZEMI.

The journalist and politician Pavel Tigrid (1917-2003), editor of the exile magazine Svědectví , lived in this street in house No. 3 from 1993-2003 , he made a significant contribution to the collapse of communism and the renewal of democracy in our country.

Awards

Publications

  • Central Europe: disregard and renewal of human rights. In: Respect human rights - outlaw displacement. Issue 31. Series of publications by the Ackermann community, Munich 1982.
  • Le printemps de Prague. Editions du Seuil, 1968.
  • Workers Against the Workers' State: Resistance in Eastern Europe. Cologne, Bund-Verlag, 1983.
  • Why Dubcek Fell. Macdonald and Co 1971.
  • Révoltes ouvrières à l'Est. 1952-1981 . Paris, Complexe 1981.
  • Ota Filip , Pavel Tigrid (Ed.): Continent. Special volume Prague. Independent forum of non-exiled Czechoslovak authors. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michal Přibáň: Kdo byl kdo v české exilové literatuře let 1948–1968. HOST (3), p. March 25, 2009.
  2. ↑ Pavel Tigird , keyword in Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Lexicon of Czech literature after 1945), online at: slovnikceskeliteratury.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Významné osobnosti , report from the official website of the city of Semily, online at: semily.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Michal Hanák, Zemřel Pavel Tigrid , obituary in iDNES.cz / Zprávy , online at: zpravy.idnes.cz / ...
  5. ↑ Spisovatel, novinář a politik Pavel Tigrid by se dožil 90 let (German: The writer, journalist and politician Pavel Tigrid would be 90 years old). In: Novinky.cz. October 26, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Jazykové gymnázium Pavla Tigrida
  7. ↑ pametni-desky-v-praze.cz: TIGRID Pavel - Na zdi u domu čp.39 v ulici U Starého hřbitova 3 v Praze 1 Josefov

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personal data
SURNAME Tigrid, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönfeld, Pavel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, journalist, editor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2003
Place of death Héricy , France