Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout (born July 20, 1928 in Prague ) is a Czechoslovak - Austrian writer , theater man, civil rights activist and politician .
Life
After graduating from university, Kohout began to study philosophy at the Charles University in Prague . In 1945 he joined the Communist Party (KSČ) and was appointed to the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Youth Association (ČSM).
After completing his studies, Kohout became a journalist and began working as an editor at the International Radio Exhibition in Prague in 1948. The following year he was appointed assistant to the Czech cultural attaché in Moscow. At the end of 1950 he returned to Prague and was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Dikobraz (German: The Porcupine ) until the spring of 1952 . He then served in the army until 1955 , where he a. a. as editor of the weekly magazine Československý voják (German: The Czechoslovak Soldier ).
Subsequently, Kohout got a job with state television. In 1956 he was accepted by Svaz československých spisovatelů (German: Association of Czechoslovakian Writers ), of which he remained a member until 1967. From 1952 he worked as a director and directed in 1952 the ensemble of the interim in Divadlo Julia Fučíka (German: Julius Fučík -Theater ) renamed Vrchlického divadlo in northern Bohemia Louny (German: Laun ).
As a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) he was one of the spokesmen for the Prague Spring . After its failure, he was expelled from the KSČ in 1969. He was a co-author and a signatory of Charter 77 . In 1978 he took on a consultancy contract at the Burgtheater in Vienna . He was then expelled from his Prague apartment. He was expatriated in 1979 with his wife Jelena and has been an Austrian citizen since 1980 . Since 1989 he has been able to publish again in the Czech Republic. Pavel Kohout lives in Prague and Vienna and gives lectures and lectures all over Austria.
Pavel Kohut's first marriage was with actress Alena Vránová (* 1932) and then with the writer Anna Cornová (* 1932). The artist Ondřej Kohout (* 1953) and the author Tereza Boučková (* 1957) come from the second marriage. Since 1970 Kohout has been married to the screenwriter and writer Jelena Mašínova (* 1941).
Honors
- 1969 Franz Theodor Csokor Prize
- 1977 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- 1997 The Glass of Reason (Kassel Citizen Prize)
- 1999 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
- 2002 Federal Cross of Merit (May 27, 2002)
- 2004 Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 2013 plaque of honor of the Prime Minister
- 2014 Gold Medal of Honor of the Province of Upper Austria
- 2014 Art Prize for German-Czech Understanding
Works (selection)
Plays
- Poor murderer. Based on the motifs of the story “Vernunft” by Leonid Andrejew . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1977. (World premiere in Düsseldorf 1973, also on Broadway in New York City )
- August August, August. A circus performance . New version. Reich-Verlag, Lucerne 1983, ISBN 3-7243-0092-1 .
- Life in the quiet house. Three one-act plays; “Bad luck under the roof”, “War on the third floor” and “Fire in the basement” . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-03950-2 .
- Evol. One act . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 1972.
- Josef Schwejk or “So they killed Ferdinand” and other quotes from the adventures of the good soldier Schwejk . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1967 (first in 1963 in Prague and 1967 with Valter Taub in the title role at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg )
- Stalemate or game of kings. A non-stop game . Berlin 1987 (on behalf of the Schlossparktheater , Berlin )
- Travel around the earth in 80 days . Based on the novel by Jules Verne . Bucher, Luzern 1969 (dramatization commissioned by the Stanislav Kostka Neumann Theater in Prague ; final version with the ensemble, also premiered there).
- Such a love. Game in 2 parts . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1973 (Kohout's television game adaptation was produced in 1968 by Saarländischer Rundfunk and broadcast on the ARD program)
- Cyanide at five. A piece in one act . 2nd version. Pegasus-Verlag, Berlin 1996.
Novels
- From the diary of a counter-revolutionary ("Deník kontrarevolucionáře"). Goldmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-09862-9 .
- The Stranger and the Beautiful Woman (“Cizinec a Krásná paní”). Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940731-70-8 .
- The ideas of St. Clare. Roman ("Nápady svaté Kláry"). Goldmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-09655-3 .
- The executioner. Roman ("Katyně"). Goldmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-09405-4 .
- The long wave behind the keel. Roman ("Ta dlouhá vlna za kýlem"). Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-72965-3 .
- The loop. Roman ("Smyčka"). Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940731-26-5 .
- End of the big vacation. Roman ("Konec velkých prázdnin"). Goldmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-41497-0 .
- I'm snowing. Roman ("Sněžím"). Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-42589-1 .
- My wife and her husband. A confession (“Ten žena a ta muž”). Knaus, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-8135-0079-9 .
- The murderer's great moment. Roman ("Hvězdná hodina vrahů"). Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-72175-X .
- Dance and love lesson. German romance ("Hodina tance a lásky"). Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-41016-9 .
- Where the dog is buried . Roman ("Kde je zakopán pes"). Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-72095-8 .
- The stranger and the beautiful woman. Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940731-70-8 .
- Tango mortale. Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95510-073-5 .
Autobiography:
- My great life with Hitler, Stalin and Havel: experiences, realizations . Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940731-48-7 .
Others
- Letters across the border. An attempt at an east-west dialogue . Wegener Verlag, Hamburg 1968 (together with Günter Grass )
literature
- Veronika Ambros: Pavel Kohout and the metamorphoses of socialist realism . Lang, New York 1993, ISBN 0-8204-2015-8 (also dissertation FU Berlin 1989).
- Pavel Kosatík: Fenomén Kohout. Biography. Paseka, Praha 2001, ISBN 80-7185-372-0 (Czech).
- Marko Martin: Dissident thinking. Travel to the witnesses of an age. The Other Library, Berlin 2019. ISBN 9783847704157
- Alfred Mensak, Siegfried Lenz (Ed.): About fantasy. Conversations with Heinrich Böll , Günter Grass , Walter Kempowski , Pavel Kohout . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-04710-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Pavel Kohout in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pavel Kohout in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “Where the dog is buried” - Pavel Kohout - A discussion of the work and its author. In: Czech Republic-Portal.info. Archived from the original on September 7, 2004 .
Remarks
- ↑ The German-language version of the piece was in October 1970 at the rehearsal stage of the Graz Schauspielhaus and in January 1971 at which the Theater in der Josefstadt belonging Theater in the Konzerthaus little ones listed. - See: Fritz Walden : Love and anger, wrongly explained . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 30, 1970, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). or Hans Heinz Hahnl : Weak pieces, badly played . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1971, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Divadla. In: divadlolouny.cz. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on March 22, 2019 (Czech).
- ↑ scores by Boučková, Tereza in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Věra Brožová, Veronika Košnarová: Pavel Kohout. In: Slovník české literatury. May 30, 2009, Retrieved March 22, 2019 (Czech).
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kohout, Pavel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |