Ivan KlÃma
Ivan Klima ( born September 14, 1931 in Prague, born as Ivan Kauder ) is a Czech writer.
Life
Three years of his childhood had Klima spend the son of Jewish parents in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. After his studies he worked as a journalist and editor, eg listy in later banned literary magazine Literární. Following the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 Klima received publication ban. A year earlier he had been excluded because of its critical attitude of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in which he was 1953 respectively.
1969 Klima went for one semester as a lecturer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor / USA. In 1970 he returned to Prague and wrote here from now on plays and novels that were published only abroad because of the publication ban until 1989.
Klima in 2002 was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize for Literature Franz Kafka Society in Prague.
Works
- Moment of silence, Roman. (1963 ) from the Czech Maria Hamm Erich Maier, Transit, Berlin 2012
- The jury, Play (1969 )
- Lovers for a night, lovers for a day, Roman ( 1970)
- Judge in his own cause, Roman ( 1978)
- A love summer, Roman ( 1973)
- My first love, Roman ( 1981)
- Love and Garbage, Roman ( 1988)
- Waiting for darkness, waiting for light, Roman ( 1993)
- Love calls, Roman ( 1994)
- The people were silent: Martin Doerry (Hg): nowhere and everywhere at home. Conversations with survivors of the Holocaust DVA, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-421-04207-1 ( also on CD ), pp. 110-119
Films
Memberships
- Obec spisovatelů ( Czech Writers' Union )