Emil Vachek
Emil Vachek (born February 2, 1889 in Hradec Králové , † May 1, 1964 in Prague ) was a Czech writer and journalist.
Life
Emil Vachek grew up in Hradec Králové and attended the secondary school there, then the commercial academy and a private commercial school in Prague without graduating. From 1911 he worked as a journalist in Prague; from 1924 to 1927 he was the editor of Právu lidu , from 1927 to 1929 for the Pilsener magazine Pramen , also an employee of the Evropský literární klub and the literary group Sfinx .
Works
His literary work is dominated by humorous short prose as well as novels and detective novels influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis , in which he rebels against the prevailing conventions of bourgeois morality; such issues were anti-Semitism and prostitution . From 1926 to 1931 he wrote the novel trilogy Chám Dynybyl , during this time also the detective novels Tajemství obrazárny , Muž a stín , Zlá minuta with the literary figure of Inspector Klubíčko , in 1927 the novel Bidýlko , the fantastic novel Pán světa and the documentary cycle Německá válka ( 1945 - 1947 ).
His detective novels were adapted in numerous films from 1933, most recently in 2007 in the film Muž a stín directed by Dušan Klein with Miroslav Donutil in the role of the detective Klubíčka, in the same year Zlá minuta directed by Pavel Kačírek , with Miroslav Donutil in the main role.
The short story When Wedding Feast (t: Gustav Just ) appeared in the anthology "A Prague Sherlock Holmes - Czech Humoresken." Berlin, Verlag der Nation, 1990.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Emil Vachek in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Emil Vachek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Vachek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=888
- ↑ http://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=LitNII/13.1964/19/12.png
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vachek, Emil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hradec Králové |
DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1964 |
Place of death | Prague |