Pavel Kohout

Education

Pavel graduated from secondary school in 1947. Then he attended Charles University and graduated from it in 1952 with a degree in theater and aesthetics.

Career

Pavel devoted a lot of time to journalism. From 1941 to 1956 he worked as a journalist. In 1949-50 he was cultural attache at the Embassy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in Moscow. In 1956, he was briefly employed by Czechoslovak Television as a reporter and commentator. From 1963 to 1966, he was the dramaturge at Vinohrady Theatre. In 1979, he was stripped of his Czech citizenship and returned to the Czech Republic only in 1989. Kohout began his career as a poet since 1945. He was an adherent of communst ideas. This is noticable in his early work work

Achievements

• He became one of the most prominent figures in the Prague Spring. He was one of the initiators of the Charter-77. The following year, he was expelled from the Communist Party and his works were subjected to strict censorship. Because he and other dissident theater workers had been banned from working in the official theater, he formed an acting company called "Living-Room Theater".

Works

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• Other Work

  • I Am Snowing: The Confessions of a Woman of Prague

    (When Petra Marova is asked to help Professor Victor Kral,...)

  • The Hangwoman

    (Unable to gain admittance to high school and hampered by ...)

  • The Widow Killer: A Novel

    (In the downward spiral of the Third Reich's final days, a...)

  • Poor Murderer: A Play

    (Text: English (translation) Original Language: Czech)

  • White book: Adam Juráček, professor of drawing and physical education at the Pedagogical Institute in K., vs. Sir Isaac Newton, professor of physics ... and supplemented by most interesting document

    (Text: English (translation) Original Language: Czech)

Membership

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung]

He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.

• Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Youth Union

• Union of Writers (Czechoslovakia)

Connections

He was married three times. Pavel has a dayghter.

Wife:

Elena Kohut

Wife:

Anna Kohoutova

Wife:

Alena Vranova

Daughter:

Teresa Bochkova

References

• Great Russian Encyclopedia
• Great Russian Encyclopedia