Vladislav Vančuravladislav vančura, vladislav vančura rozmarné léto
Vladislav Vančura Czech pronunciation: ˈvlaɟɪslaf ˈvantʃura 23 June 1891, Háj near Opava – 1 June 1942, Prague was an important Bohemian Czech writer active in the 20th century, who was killed by the Nazis He was also active as a film director, playwright and screenwriter
- 1 Early years
- 2 First prose-works and teenage years
- 3 University studies, journalism
- 4 1920s and great novels
- 5 1930s and great novels
- 6 1940s, political crisis and war
- 7 References
- 8 External links
He was born on June 26, 1891 in Háj near Opava in Austrian Silesia today the Czech Republic, of an old non-Catholic nobility family; his parents were Václav Vojtěch Vančura, born 1856 in Čáslav, Evangelical, Director of sugar refinery in Háj and Marie Svobodová, Catholic, born 1863 in Kluky near Čáslav In 1896, the family moved to Davle, a beautiful place on the riverside of Vltava, about 12 miles south of Prague, where they lived in a large country-house Their broadminded father became the director of a complex of nearby stone pits and brickworks In Davle, young Vladislav was educated by a home teacher tutor between 1898-1904 In 1905, he and his older sisters moved to Prague to study there; Vladislav entered the fifth class of Elementary School in Josefská Street
First prose-works and teenage yearsedit
In 1907 Vladislav entered the Royal Gymnasium in Prague Lesser Town, but problems with school routine and pedantry of professors made him leave the next year Between 1909 and 1910, he attended Royal Gymnasium in a small town of Benešov, about 30 miles south-east of Prague It was an old school founded in 1704 and formerly led by the Piarist Order, with severe discipline and rigid professors Vančura hated this school immensely; on May 14, 1909, he published his first short story V aleji In Alley in the literary supplement of Horkého týdeník Horký's weekly magazine
The studies in Benešov ended in 1910 by a consilium abeundi because of his membership in a secret student club His parents sent him to Vysoké Mýto to be an apprentice to a bookseller Čermák He felt depressed and dreamed of becoming a painter In 1911, he studied the technology of photography in Prague and also began courses at Arts and Crafts School;he was unsuccessful in his attempt to enter the Royal Academy of Arts and start a career as a painter He considered suicide because his parents wanted him to be a marine officer or soldier Due to the illness of his mother, Vladislav returned to Davle In 1912 he studied privately at home and completed the exams of 4th and 5th class of the gymnasium The next year he entered Royal Gymnasium on Křemencová Street in Prague and finished the 6th class Between 1914 and 1915 he was again a student at Prague Lesser Town Royal Gymnasium where he took the final exam on June 6, 1915
University studies, journalismedit
In October 1915, Vladislav entered the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, but this bored him In the winter of 1916 he studied medicine at the same university; his family moved from Davle to a country manor Humburky, not far from Prague and Vladislav met 19-year-old Ludmila 'Lida' Tuhá, a student of medicine In 1917,the painter group Tvrdošíjní Stubborns was founded by Josef Čapek, Jan Zrzavý, Václav Špála, Vlastimil Hofman, Bedřich Feuerstein, Zdeněk Rykr and other close friends of Vladislav He wrote about them and Josef Čapek became the congenial illustrator of his later book Rozmarné leto in 1926 Between October 1 and December 31, 1918, Vladislav practiced medicine at a hospital in Německý Brod A few days later, on October 3, he published his small prose Ráj Paradise in S K Neumann's magazine Červen June and worked on a fairy-tale book Kolébka Cradle and on a play Iason In 1919 Vladislav returned to Prague to continue his university studies; from 1919-1920 he published many art reviews in daily newspaper České slovo The Czech Word
1920s and great novelsedit
On June 2, 1921, Vladislav and Lída graduated as doctors of medicine and married on August 16, of the same year In autumn, they moved to Zbraslav, where they opened a surgical practice In 1923, Vladislav published a book of short stories Amazonský proud Amazon Stream More important was his second short stories book, published in 1924, Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký Long, Thick and Sharpsighted, containing excellent texts like Cesta do světa Journey to the World or F C Ball The third book, Pekař Jan Marhoul Baker Jan Marhoul, published in 1924, introduced him as a great author to the public It is Vančura's first novel and maybe also his best - story of tragical life of a wealthy baker who is continuously declining into destitution and death despite his gentleness and goodness The story is written with extraordinary language and a brilliant style In 1925, Vančura published the novel Pole orná a válečná Fields of Plough, Fields of War and the following year the novel Rozmarné léto Summer of Caprice, became a bestseller It is a humorous story of three men - a colonel, a priest and a bath-keeper - during rainy summer holidays In 1967, the book was successfully filmed as Capricious Summer by the Czech director Jiří Menzel who also played the role of Arnoštek in this movie In 1928 Vančura wrote his fourth novel, Poslední soud Last Judgement, published in 1929 and built his new white functionalistic villa in Zbraslav designed by architect Jaromír Krejcar, the husband of Franz Kafka's friend, journalist and translator Milena Jesenská
1930s and great novelsedit
Vančura's fifth novel Hrdelní pře aneb Přísloví Criminal Dispute or The Proverbs published in 1930 in Aventinum Publishing House, Prague, was not very popular in its time; it is the most complicated of Vančura's novels, the genre of which lies between a detective novel and a tract on noetics From the language point of view this book is a serious problem for translators because of hundreds of old proverbs used in text; there is only one translation today - Polish In 1931, the novel Markéta Lazarová Marketa Lazarova was published and became a bestseller The novel was inspired by a true Middle Ages story of the knights of the Vančura family who were in a private war with other noblemen and with the King's town Mladá Boleslav Vančura dedicated this book to his cousin and friend Jiří Mahen In 1967, the book was successfully filmed by director František Vláčil In the same year 1931 Vančura also published a fairy-tale book Kubula a Kuba Kubikula Kubula and Kuba Kubikula that remained popular for decades Vančura's activity continued through the next year as he published the novel Útěk do Budína Escape to Budapest, a contemporary story of love, marriage and life of a Prague middle-class woman and a Slovak nobleman In 1934, two other books were published: Luk královny Dorotky Bow of Little Queen Dorothy, a collection of short stories and Konec starých časů End of the Old Times a bestseller, satirical and humorous novel about the life at a Bohemian country-chateau in the first years of the republic this book was also successfully filmed by Jiří Menzel in 1989 In 1934 also, Vancura directed the film Marika Nevernice, from a story by Ivan Olbracht With the 'End of the Old Times', the time of Vančura's best books ended too His next two books, a play Jezero Ukerewe Ukerewe Lake from 1935 and a socialism-influenced book Tři řeky Three Rivers, 1936 were not successful
1940s, political crisis and waredit
In March 1938, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria Vančura's friend, playwright Otokar Fischer died of a heart-attack when he learned about it; Vancura wrote an obituary about him to Literární listy magazine In 1938, Rodina Horvátova Horvat Family, a novel about life of three generations of a gentry family was published which did not attract any reader interest, due to the political crisis In December 1938, Vančura took part in the burial of Karel Čapek, the famous writer and his friend, who died from psychological and health problems probably caused by the stress he experienced due to the capitulation of Czechoslovakia
Vančura entered the strong anti-Hitler cultural movement and started to write the book Obrazy z dějin národa českého Pictures of the History of the Bohemian Nation; its first parts were published and then became a bestseller and symbol of resistance On March 15, 1939, the rest of Czechoslovakia was occupied by Hitler and a week later, on May 22, Jiří Mahen committed suicide in a protest against Nazism
Vančura was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia As a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Vančura joined a secret communist resistance group in Autumn 1939 On May 12, 1942, at 5:00 am, the Gestapo assaulted his house in Zbraslav, arrested him and tortured him in the Prague Gestapo headquarters On May 27, 1942, a commando of the Czechoslovak Foreign Army from Britain assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's governor in Prague As a result, there was a wave of reprisals: in the following weeks more than 2000 members of the Czech elite were executed One of them was Vančura, executed by SS members in the military area Prague-Kobylisy on June 1, 1942 at 6:45 pm His body together with many others was disposed of secretly at Strašnice Crematorium1
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