Vratislav Effenberger
Vratislav Effenberger | |
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Born | (1923-04-22)22 April 1923 Nymburk, Czechoslovakia |
Died | 10 August 1986(1986-08-10) (aged 63) Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Occupation | Surrealist, Writer, essayist |
Nationality | Czech |
Period | 20th century |
Genre | Writing |
Literary movement | Surrealism |
Vratislav Effenberger (22 April 1923 in Nymburk – 10 August 1986 in Prague) was a Czech literature theoretician. He has German Bohemian descent from his paternal side, but has assimilated into Czech.
Life and career
In 1944, Effenberger left industrial school with his Abitur. He went to study chemistry and the history of art as well as aesthetics at the philosophical faculty. Starting from 1946, he joined the Czechoslovakian Film institute, from which he was dismissed 1954. He was then a worker until 1966 and later was appointed to the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 1970, he was dismissed for political reasons and had to take a job as a nightwatchman. In 1969, he became editor of the surrealist magazine Analogon; which around 1968 it published newspapers and magazines, which were concerned with literature, theatre or art.[1][2]
Works
He became famous with a collection of film scripts and pseudo-scripts Surovost života a cynismus fantasie.
Most of his works were self-published in a handwritten form. He also published numerous articles in newspapers and magazines. Some of his works were seized and destroyed by the Czech State Security.[citation needed]
Books
- Henri Rousseau, Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění (SNKLU) Prague 1963, monographie
- Reality and poetry (Realita a poezie), 1969
- Formative expressions Surrealismus (Výtvarné projevy surrealismu), Odeon Prague 1969
- Development of thearalischer styles (Vývoj divadelních slohů), 1972 self publishing house
- Rawness of the Life and the Cynicism of the Fantasy (Surovost života a cynismus fantasie), Sixty-Eight Publishers Toronto 1984, Orbis Prague 1991
- Hunt for the black shark (Lov na černého žraloka), PmD-Publ. 1987 Munich, poems
- Poems I, (Básně I), Torst Prague 2004 ISBN 80-7215-232-7
- Hunt for the black shark (Polowanie na czarnego rekina), Atut 2006 Wrocław, ISBN 978-83-7432-196-9
- Poems II, (Básně II), Torst Prague 2007 ISBN 978-80-7215-330-5
- Republic and testicles, (Republiku a varlata), Torst Prague 2012 ISBN 978-80-7215-446-3
Manuscripts
- Surrealistic poetry (Surrealistická poezie) (1969)
- Models and methods (Modely a metody) (1969)
- Treasure of seeing (Poklad vidění) - a study from the history of the modern forming art. (1970)
- Karel of pastes (1970)
- Karel Havlíček (1971) Monographie
- Picture and word (Obraz A slovo) (1971)
- Osvobozené divadlo (1972–73)
- Karol Baron (1977) Monographie
- The Trumbild and imagination (Vidění a imaginace) (1977)
Movie
- 2018 Vratislav Effenberger aneb Lov na černého žraloka (Vratislav Effenberger, or Hunting on a Black Shark), document, 85 min. Directed David Jařab (CS)
References
External links
- Vratislav Effenberger in the German National Library catalogue
- Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia (FR)
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- Eileen Agar
- Jean Arp
- Eugène Atget
- Hans Bellmer
- Jacques-André Boiffard
- Bill Brandt
- Victor Brauner
- Fanny Brennan
- Emmy Bridgwater
- Jacques Brunius
- Luis Buñuel
- Claude Cahun
- Leonora Carrington
- Ithell Colquhoun
- Gala Dalí
- Salvador Dalí
- Jean Dallaire
- Paul Delvaux
- Óscar Domínguez
- Christian Dotremont
- Marcel Duchamp
- Marcel Duhamel
- Curt Echtermeyer
- Max Ernst
- Leonor Fini
- Gordon Onslow Ford
- Esteban Francés
- Alberto Giacometti
- Julio González
- Jane Graverol
- Jacques Hérold
- Valentine Hugo
- Frida Kahlo
- Gerome Kamrowski
- Wifredo Lam
- Jacqueline Lamba
- Dora Maar
- Conroy Maddox
- René Magritte
- Georges Malkine
- Marcel Mariën
- André Masson
- Roberto Matta
- Mikuláš Medek
- Oscar Mellor
- John Melville
- E. L. T. Mesens
- Lee Miller
- Desmond Morris
- Joan Miró
- Méret Oppenheim
- Wolfgang Paalen
- Benjamín Palencia
- Roland Penrose
- Man Ray
- Toni del Renzio
- Aminollah Rezaei
- Kay Sage
- Kurt Seligmann
- André Souris
- Martin Stejskal
- Jindřich Štyrský
- Maurice Tabard
- Yves Tanguy
- Dorothea Tanning
- Karel Teige
- Kristians Tonny
- Toyen
- Albert Valentin
- Remedios Varo
- James F. Walker
- Radojica Živanović Noe
- Unica Zürn
Theorists
- Maxime Moses Alexandre
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Louis Aragon
- Antonin Artaud
- Jacques Baron
- Georges Bataille
- Monny de Boully
- André Breton
- Roger Caillois
- Nicolas Calas
- René Crevel
- René Daumal
- Robert Desnos
- Vratislav Effenberger
- Paul Éluard
- Renée Gauthier
- Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
- Yvan Goll
- Julien Gracq
- Irène Hamoir
- Georges Hugnet
- Alfred Jarry
- Nelly Kaplan
- Petr Král
- Jacques Lacan
- Philip Lamantia
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Marcel Lecomte
- Michel Leiris
- Georges Limbour
- Léo Malet
- Joyce Mansour
- Dušan Matić
- Robert Melville
- René Ménil
- Max Morise
- Pierre Naville
- Vítězslav Nezval
- Paul Nougé
- Paul Păun
- Benjamin Péret
- Rastko Petrović
- Francis Ponge
- Jacques Prévert
- Raymond Queneau
- Herbert Read
- Pierre Reverdy
- Marko Ristić
- Georges Sadoul
- Louis Scutenaire
- Philippe Soupault
- Simon Watson Taylor
- André Thirion
- Dylan Thomas
- Tristan Tzara
- Jacques Vaché
- Marianne Van Hirtum
- Roger Vitrac