František Emmert

František Emmert (* 1974 in Brno) is a Czech writer and author of non-fiction books about modern history.

Biography

Emmert was born in the family of the composer and professor at the Janáček Academy of Music Franz Gregor Emmert. The father's family comes from the town of Weiden in Bavaria, the mother of Teplice in Bohemia the family. The ancestors of father's side worked for several generations as a glazier on the German side of the Bohemian Forest. The mother came from a family business that owns a family, a cake shop in Teplice was before the year 1948.

After Frantisek Emmert had graduated from high school, he studied history and religious studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno. Later ( from 2005 ), he also studied at the Faculties of Law in Brno and Trnava. In 2011 he earned the degree of Doctor of Law from the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.

Between 1992 and 2006 he worked as a journalist, publicist and editor. He was in the Czech Radio, active in the daily newspapers Rovnost, Pravo and ZNnoviny / Slovo and the Czech Press Agency. In the years 2009-2011 he was press secretary of the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno.

The writing of books he has devoted himself since 2001. The first two fiction works were published in 2003 and 2004. He sat down but only with non-fiction books about modern history through. In 2005, the first book in the series of non-fiction Czechs was published in the Armed Forces, which was reprinted in the near future and attracted the attention of readers and professionals in the publishing Vysehrad.

This was followed by narrative publications - such as museums in the book - which represent an overview of the key events of the 20th century, especially in Czech history. These publications in the large format different from the classical books by above-average graphic editing and clarity of the texts. They contain many photographs, self- printed inserts - facsimiles of archival and DVDs with contemporary radio recordings. They serve as a teaching aid in schools. By 2012, Frantisek Emmert prepared nine of these publications. Some of his books have been reprinted, won awards or have been translated into English ( The Holocaust ). The publication Fateful Be in our history was presented by the writer in 2009, the municipality of E. E. Kisch grand prize.

Frantisek Emmert is also the author of other books including legal literature, co-author of the textbook Social Sciences for technical schools as well as author of commentaries and journalistic articles in the daily press and also of professional articles and studies in the fields of history, law, and international politics in journals and anthologies.

As a consultant, he participated in the preparation of the Czech historical film Lidice ( 2011).

In English

• 2006 - The Holocaust. The first publication from the series of museums in the book. The book was published in 2007 in English.
• 2003 - The fire of forgotten gods. Adventurous novel. The book was translated into English and published in both printed and electronic formats in the U.S. ( 2006).

Only in Czech language

• 2012 - Guide to Czech history of the 20th century. 320 pages, 250 images. Specialized monograph.
• 2012 - Václav Havel 1936-2011. Museum in the book.
• 2012 - Czechoslovak foreign resistance during the Second World War in the West. Museum in the book.
• 2012 - Czechs in the Wehrmacht. 2nd expanded edition.
• 2011 - Czech Republic and dual citizenship. Specialized monograph. Legal Literature ( History of Law / Constitutional Law ).
• 2009 - Velvet Revolution. Chronicle of the fall of communism in 1989. Museum in the book.
• 2008 - Fateful Be in our history. Bestseller among museums in the Book (2008). The book won the E. E. Kisch Prize for the year 2009.
• 2008 - 1918 formation of the Czechoslovak Republic. Museum in the book.
• 2008 - Assassination of Heydrich. Museum in the book.
• 2008 - Czechs at Tobruk.
• 2007 - The year 1968 in Czechoslovakia. Museum in the book.
• 2007 - The Second World War. Czechs and Slovaks. Museum in the book.
• 2005 - Czechs in the Wehrmacht.
• 2004 - Millennium false prophets. Adventurous novella.
• 2003 - Make the High School! in social sciences. Textbook for technical schools.

Awards

• 2009 - E. E. Kisch top prize awarded by the writer community for the book Fateful Be in our history.
• 2010 - E. E. Kisch Prize awarded by the writer community for the book Velvet Revolution.
• 2008 - Prize of the 18th Autumn Book Fair in Havlíčkův Brod for the book The Second World War. Czechs and Slovaks.
• 2007 - Prize of the 17th Autumn Book Fair in Havlíčkův Brod for the book Holocaust.