Josef Kainar ( Czech: Josef Kainar ; June 29, 1917 , Prerov , Austria-Hungary - November 16, 1971 , Dobříš , Czechoslovakia ) - Czech poet - lyricist , playwright , journalist , translator , screenwriter , musician , illustrator. Laureate of the State Prize. C. Gottwald (1953).
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Selected Works
- 3 Poetry
- 4 Poems for children
- 5 Favorite Scenarios
- 6 notes
- 7 Literature
- 8 References
Biography
Born in the family of a railway official. In 1938-1939 he studied Czech and French philology at Charles University . After the closure of the Czech universities by the German invaders, he made a living working as a railwayman, a sawmill worker, a guitarist and an orchestra violinist (composed of dance compositions). Later he took up professionally music, especially jazz and blues . I tried my hand at photography.
Member of Group 42 .
In 1945-1947 he worked in the editorial office of the newspaper “Rovnost” ( Brno ), and published journalistic articles. He was a screenwriter at the Satire Theater.
Since 1969, he headed the Preparatory Committee of the Union of Czech Writers and was elected chairman of the Union.
The poems of J. Kainar during the Second World War (1939–1945), included in the collections of “Cases and Miniatures” (1940), “New Myths” (1946), “Fates” (1947), express a tragic outlook inspired by the years of German occupation the absurdity of bourgeois relations.
In the post-war period, Kainar was an active participant in socialist transformations. His poems reveal the poetry of everyday life, expose philistinism and routine (collections “Big Love”, 1950; “Czech Dream”, 1953; “I Love a Man with Bitter Love”, 1959; “Lazarus and Song”, 1960).
The author of witty poetic feuilleton , songs, couplets (collections of “My Blues”, 1966; “Latest News”, 1971), plays (“Ubu returns or the Scars will not remain”, 1949; “The Dead Nasreddin”, 1959, etc.) , poems and fairy tales for children.
The author of dramatic works, usually of a satirical genre.
He translated the works of V.V. Mayakovsky , R. M. Rilke .
For the last two years of his life, he has actively worked with rock bands as the author of texts for albums.
He was buried at the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague.
Selected Works
Poetry
- Příběhy a menší básně (1940)
- Nové mýty (1946)
- Osudy, Dvůr (compilation, 1947)
- Veliká láska (1950)
- Český sen (1953)
- Člověka hořce mám rád (1959)
- Lazar a píseň (1960)
- Moje blues (1966)
Poems for Children
- Říkadla (1948)
- Zlatovláska (1958)
- Nevídáno neslýcháno (1964)
Favorite Scenarios
- Baron Munchausen (1961)
- The Tale of the Old Tram (1961)
Notes
Literature
- The Great Soviet Encyclopedia - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1969-1978.
Links
- Kaynar, Joseph on the Internet Movie Database
- Josef Kainar (Czech)
- J. Kainar