Jan Weiss
Jan Weiss ( born May 10, 1892 in Jilemnice, † March 7, 1972 ) was a Czech writer; he was one of the lesser-known authors of the 20th century. Nevertheless, it is one of the most unconventional and distinctive representatives of Czech literature.
He was from 1920 to 1947 ministry official, during the German occupation had suspended him from duty. His experiences during the First World War on the Italian and Russian front, he had to process only for himself, before he could experience as a 35 -year-old his literary debut. Published in 1927, almost simultaneously, the short story collections The barrack of death, the late levels, and the tale, The Phantom of laughter. His most famous work published in 1929: The House of a thousand floors, a novel with the cautionary vision of a perfected technocratic world in which people have to suffer a refined, power hungry dictatorship. It was published in 1977 in German translation in the GDR.
1957 Jan Weiss was honored with the title of Honored Artist of Czechoslovakia. Since the late 1950s he turned more to the science fiction genre.
Works (selection)
- The house of a thousand stories in 1929
- The crazy Regiment ( 1930); a satirical grotesque
- The enigmatic Meteor (1930 ); Narrative ( in the GDR in 1970 in the Cape series published as a booklet 102)
- School of the Crime (1931; 1943 under the title The miracle hands appeared to be re-worked version); novel
- Three dreams of Kristina Bojarová (1931 ); stage play
- Silence is Golden (1933 ); novel parody
- The sleeper of the Zodiac (1937 ); novel
- The Möbelräumer (1941 ); Prose anthology
- He came from the mountains ( 1941); Narrative with motifs of the legends of the Giant Mountains
- The meteor of the uncle Schulijan (1941 ); Roma net
- Call for Help (1946 ); Novel about the fascist occupation
- Old and new stories (1954 ); stories