Václav Hrabě

Václav Hrabě (born June 13, 1940 in Příbram , † March 5, 1965 in Prague ) was a Czech poet, prose writer and a representative of the so-called Beat Generation .

The son of a railroad worker lived in Lochovice near Beroun in his youth . He attended middle school in Hořovice . After graduating from high school in 1957, he studied the Czech language and history at the Pedagogical University in Prague. In 1961 he started military service. After returning home, he often changed jobs. It was not until the fall of 1964 that he accepted the position of teacher.

His works are strongly influenced by the development of jazz , blues and the birth of the beat in the sixties. Hrabě himself played several instruments, including the clarinet and saxophone. He wrote down his meeting with Allen Ginsberg as an interview in 1965. In addition to poems and smaller prose works, he probably also wrote a play, which, however, was never found.

His first work was published in 1962 in the magazine of the Charles University in Prague and in the army magazine Notebook (Zápisník). Some works were published in Faces (Tváře).

From 1965 to 1967 his poems were used in the Quite Small Theater ( Docela malé divadlo ) in Litvínov as the basis for the poetic volume Stop-time (published in 1967). Some poems have also been set to music, for example on the record A few tones (Pár tónů) by Vladimír Mišík .

Works

• Horečka - the only surviving history
• Stop-time, 1969
• Blues v modré a bílé, 1977
• Korunovační blues, 1981
• Černé nebe nad městem, 1985
• Blues pro bláznivou holku, 1991
• Blues, 1995
• Margot - play in which the original was lost

Published in German

• Litany of the ending morning

Web links

• Literature by and about Václav Hrabě in the catalog of the German National Library