Pavel Kohout

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Pavel Kohout at the Leipzig Book Fair 2019
Pavel Kohout and his wife Jelena Mašínová in Prague, October 25, 2007

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

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

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

Web links

Commons : Pavel Kohout  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ History of Divadla. In: divadlolouny.cz. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on March 22, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ↑ scores by Boučková, Tereza in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Věra Brožová, Veronika Košnarová: Pavel Kohout. In: Slovník české literatury. May 30, 2009, Retrieved March 22, 2019 (Czech).
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  5. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association ,
    Permalink German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Kohout, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague