Otokar Fischer

Otokar Fischer ( born May 20, 1883 in Kolin, † March 12, 1938 in Prague) was a Czech translator, literary critic and playwright.

Originally from a Jewish family Otokar Fischer belonged to the pragmatic generation of the year 1914. He studied German, Romance and Comparative Literature in Prague and Berlin, was a lecturer at Charles University, where he was in 1933 also appointed dean and was dramaturg at National Theatre ( Národní divadlo ) and later director of the Schauspielhaus. He died of a heart attack after he had learned from the so-called annexation of Austria into the Third Reich.

With the artist Vlasta Vostřebalová Fischer (1898-1963) he had the son Jan Otakar Fischer ( 1923-1992 ).

Works

Fischer devoted himself monographs on German writer ( Heine, Kleist and Nietzsche). He also wrote poetry, of which the most famous collections votes ( Hlasy 1923) and rings ( Kruhy 1921) are. About the difficulties of the Jews, he wrote in his 1916 published book Enlightened window ( Ozářená okna ).

In his theoretical works he used the literary- psychological method. Culture Political essays, reviews and translations, he published in the National newspaper ( Národní listy ) and in the People's Law ( Pravo lidu ). He also worked as a theater Speaker of the People's Daily. His essays he published in the book soul and word ( duse a slovo, 1929) as well as word and world ( Slovo a svět 1937).

Less well known are his dramatic works The Przemyslids ( Přemyslovci 1918) or slave ( Otroci 1925). He made himself as a translator of Goethe's Faust, the works of William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Molière, François Villon, Heinrich Heine and the other a name.

See also List of Czech writers

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