Jan Otčenášek

January Otčenášek ( born November 19, 1924 in Prague, † February 24, 1979 ) was a Czech writer and screenwriter.

Life

After studying at the Business Academy, which he finished in 1943, he worked in an aircraft factory in Prague and joined the resistance movement. Since 1952 he worked at the Association of Czechoslovak writer ( Svaz československých spisovatelů ) with. Since 1960 he was a full-time writer and dramaturg since 1973 of Barrandov film studios.

Works in German language

• As it was raining in paradise ( Když v ráji pršelo ) (1972 ), Roman built on a sense of relationship of a young intellectual couple who lives under simple conditions of life in the Bohemian Forest.
• The limping Orpheus ( Kulhavý Orfeus ) ( 1964), novel in which the youth union members during the occupation by German Nazis and their attempt at this difficult time not to be offside from the action.
• Decision time
• Romeo and Juliet and Darkness ( Romeo, Julie a tma ) ( 1958), short story about the tragic fate of the students Paul and the Jewish girl Esther at the time of the occupation by German.
• This sound also has to sound

Works in Czech

His first book Plným krokem appeared in 1952. Besides books that dealt with the building of communism in Czechoslovakia, he also write romance novels. There were also film projects, screenplays and dramatic works.

Screenplay