Career
He is considered one of the most important personalities of the Czechoslovakian exile journalism. He left Czechoslovakia as a young man to evade the Nazis. In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) when he worked as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda in British Broadcasting Corporation, and kept it for the rest of his life.
Returning after the end of World World War II, he continued his publishing career, soon clashing with the ascendant communist ideology.
Fleeing arrest, he emigrated to West Germany, later moved to United States of America and finally settled in France. During the Cold War, Tigrid was a prominent representative of Czechoslovakian anti-communist exile, authored several books and published numerous publications, for example the magazine Svědectví ("Testimony"), read both in exile circles and by dissidents in Czechoslovakia from 1956 to 1992.
He returned to Prague for the second time after the Velvet Revolution, has been active in public life and served as a Minister of Culture (1994-1996), but after an unsuccessful campaign for election to the Czechoslovakian Senate, he retired to France where died in 2003.
