Vratislav Effenberger
Vratislav Effenberger was a Czech literature theoretician. He has German Bohemian descent from his paternal side, but has assimilated into Czech.
Life and career
Vratislav Effenberger was born on 22 April 1923 in Nymburk. 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 Czechoslovak 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.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.
Books
Henri Rousseau, Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění Prague 1963, monographie Reality and poetry, 1969 Formative expressions Surrealismus, Odeon Prague 1969 Development of thearalischer styles, 1972 self publishing house Rawness of the Life and the Cynicism of the Fantasy, Sixty-Eight Publishers Toronto 1984, Orbis Prague 1991Hunt for the black shark, PmD-Publ. 1987 Munich, poemsPoems I,, Torst Prague 2004 Hunt for the black shark, Atut 2006 Wrocław, Poems II,, Torst Prague 2007 Republic and testicles,, Torst Prague 2012Manuscripts
Surrealistic poetry Models and methods Treasure of seeing - a study from the history of the modern forming art. Karel of pastes Karel Havlíček MonographiePicture and word Osvobozené divadlo Karol Baron Monographie- ''The Trumbild and imagination''