Antonín Jaroslav Liehm

Antonín Jaroslav Liehm ( born March 2, 1924 in Prague ) is a Czech writer, journalist, translator, film theorist and literary critic who lives in Paris.

Antonin J. Liehm founded in Paris in 1984, the European cultural magazine Lettre International. A French edition, exists since 1993 no more, but (2009 ) next to the German edition still an Italian (since 1984), a Romanian, a Spanish and Hungarian edition .. Antonin Liehm passes (2009) continues to be the Parisian editorial office of the journal.

• 2.1 Books
• 2.2 translations

Life history

Antonin J. Liehm studied political science at the Charles University in Prague. He graduated in 1949 from the owner.

Kulturní politika and Stalinism

As early as 1945 at the age of 21 years Liehm founded in Prague together with Emil František Burian, a famous theater was the weekly Kulturní politika ( cultural policy ). The newspaper was pro-Communist and was eventually published by the Czechoslovak Writers' Union. The former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementi gave him in 1948 next to a job in the Press Department of the Foreign Ministry. His sponsor was hanged in 1952 in Stalinist Slánský process. He was released in the sequence and set the magazine. 1956 Liehm was reinstated to be released again four years later.

Litérarní noviny, Prague Spring

After the expulsion in 1960 he was able to enter the literary magazine Literární noviny. Originally strictly Stalinist magazine had been liberalized since the political thaw in 1956. 1960/61, succeeded Niehm and a group of colleagues can be called to the old editor in chief and to take over the editorship. Liehm described this period as follows: We went into politics through culture, through theater, literature and philosophy. They read us as a political newspaper in the medium of culture. A cultural-political journal, in the tradition of those directed towards the intelligentsia of the 1920s. The circulation increased to 130,000 copies. On the Czechoslovak journalists congress of 22 - 23rd April 1963, for example, called Antonin Liehm to make the speeches of Western politicians known to all readers, and only then to argue if necessary. The magazine was one of the pioneers of the Prague Spring in 1968, in the leading Czechoslovak Communists strove to reform the political system. Ally Liehm during this time were particularly Ludvik Vaculik, Milan Kundera Jan Prochazka, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klima. Some time after the abolition of censorship in the spring of 1968 was left to Liehm and a group of his colleagues a building for the editors of Literární noviny. There, the group with Liehm should expand as the editor in chief Litérarní as noviny newspaper. The start of work was scheduled for September 15, 1968, the restart of the newspaper on the National Day on October 28, 1968.

Suppression of the Prague Spring and emigration

However, the invasion of the Red Army tanks in Prague stopped on 21 August 1968 Prague Spring.

1969 Liehm fled first to Paris. Even then harbored the desire Liehm a European forum for intellectual debates modeled after the Litérarní create noviny.

University teachers in the USA and France

Since it is neither a permanent job find enough money but could muster, he went to the USA, where he taught as a lecturer and film "European culture".

It was not until thirteen years later he got a job at the University of Paris VII and later at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Sommerlektiiri and 150,000 words

With Friends Antonin Liehm brought an annual 800 machines -page almanac for Czech and Slovak Czechoslovakia not misplaced literature regardless of whether the works were published in the country or abroad and regardless of whether it is with the authors dissidents acted or not. He called this almanac Sommerlektiiri.

In addition, Antonin Liehm published a magazine " 150 000 words" out. The title is reminiscent of Ludvik Vaculíks text 2000 words from the year 1968. Magazine included a selection of the most interesting after Liehms View publicist and journalist confrontational texts from around the world. The later published three times a year plant was systematically smuggled across the Iron Curtain.

1977 organized Liehm Antonin in Venice Biennial of Resistance Culture ( Biennale del Disseno ).

L76 and other founding attempts

To 1977 he offered the German writer Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll, to make an East-West Magazine. Liehm was too tight, he wanted an international journal. First, it was agreed and Liehm put together an international advisory board. But then notified the publisher Liehm with the view of Grass that whole geriete to international and not German enough and invited him upon payment of $ 100 again. The proposed title of Liehm L76 was retained. The magazine went later.

As a result, he launched several attempts at getting started, including one in Austria with Martin Pollack, later the central European correspondent of the Mirror, which nearly folded Liehms statement.

1984: Liehm based Lettre International

Ultimately, the foundation of Lettre International, but in Paris, in collaboration with Liehms friend Paul Noirot, of the moneyless Journal Politique aujourd'hui operation in a Einzimmerbüro with kitchen.

The French Lettre never managed to earn enough money to pay fees to the authors and artists. Liehm worked a day job as a lecturer and the magazine just a student employed as an editorial secretary. The money was mainly spent on good translations of international products. In the French edition still followed the Italian edition in 1984.

The concept describes Liehm as: Did we have a good text that he was German, American, Russian, then we searched for him an environment. Other texts which revolved around him, commenting, even if they were not specifically written for the purpose. I will not deny that this was also born out of necessity, because we could any pieces. We had to rely on to make a collage from a wonderful text. Goods completed the articles for an issue, so we went looking for poetry, went to museums, the search for suitable pictures. Our goal was to create a play of mirrors to generate around a text.

For details, see the article Lettre International.

Works

• Louis Aragon, Antonin J. Liehm: Cestující z Imperiálu: román. Spisy (Louis Aragon ). SNKLU, 1962
• Conversation on the Vltava River. The struggle for the freedom of Czechoslovakia, DEA. Molden, Munich 1968.
• Discussions on the Vltava River. About humane socialism. With the essay by Jean -Paul Sartre "Socialism, who came in from the cold ". From the Czech by Erich Bertleff, Kindler, Munich 1970
• Trois générations: entretiens sur le phénomène culturel tchécoslovaque, Volume 15 of Collection Témoins, Gallimard, 1970
• Josef Škvorecký, Gallimard, 1970
• Antonín J. Liehm ,饭 岛 周:三つ の 世代,みすず書房, 1970
• The politics of culture, Grove Press, 1971
• Closely watched films: the Czechoslovak experience, International Arts and Sciences Press, 1974, ISBN 9780608170671
• Le Passé présent, J. C. Lattès, 1974
• Antonín J. Liehm, Miloš Forman: The Forman stories, International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975, ISBN 9780873320511
• Antonín J. Liehm, Karel Kosík: Letteratura e dissenso nell'Europa dell'Est. Il Dissenso Culturale. La Biennale di Venezia, 1977
• Mira Liehm, Antonín J. Liehm: Il Cinema nell'Europa dell'Est, 1960-1977: il cinema di Stato ei suoi artisti. Il Dissenso Culturale, La Biennale di Venezia, 1977
• Henry Gabay, Antonín J. Liehm: Serghiej Paradjanov: Testimonianze e documenti su l'opera e la vita. Il Dissenso Culturale. La Biennale di Venezia, 1977
• Nocne Rozmowy z Josefem Smrkovskim. Nowa umowa społeczna, Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1978
• Josef Smrkovský, Antonín J. Liehm, Jan Teren: Nocne Rozmowy z Josefem Smrkovskim: Nowa umowa społeczna / AJ Liehm, Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1978
• Peter Kussi, Antonín J. Liehm: The Writing on the wall: an anthology of contemporary Czech literature, Karz - Cohl Pub, 1983.
• Robert Buchar, Antonin J. Liehm: Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews, Mcfarland & Co Inc 2003, ISBN 978-0786417209
• Antonín J. Liehm, Aleksandar S. Ilić: Miloš Forman: događaji. Volume 5 of Prilozi za filma istoriju. Institut za movie, 1987
• Generace, Index, 1988
• Antonín J. Liehm, Carsten Jensen, Hans Andersen, Jesper Hoffmeyer: Lettre International: Europe et nyt: en ny moral? Et nyt democratic? . [ Anmeldelse ], Aarhus Festuge, 1992, ISBN 9788774832850
• OSTRE sledované filmy: Československé zkušenost, Volume 16 of Knihovna Iluminace, Národní Filmový Archive, 2001, ISBN 9788070041000

Translations

Liehm translated literary works from English, French, German and Russian into Czech. He translated many works of Louis Aragon, Robert Merle and Jean -Paul Sartre

Honors

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