Vladislav Vančura
| Vladislav Vančura | |
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Young Vladislav Vančura
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| Born |
23 June 1891 Háj ve Slezsku, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1 June 1942 (age 50) Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Notable works |
Rozmarné léto Marketa Lazarová Obrazy z dějin národa českého |
Vladislav Vančura (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvlaɟɪslaf ˈvantʃura]) (23 June 1891, Háj near Opava – 1 June 1942, Prague) was an important Bohemian (Czech) writer active in the 20th century, who was killed by the Nazis. He was also active as a film director, playwright and screenwriter.
He was born on June 26, 1891 in Háj near Opava in Austrian Silesia (today the Czech Republic), of an old non-Catholic nobility family; his parents were Václav Vojtěch Vančura, born 1856 in Čáslav, Evangelical, Director of sugar refinery in Háj and Marie Svobodová, Catholic, born 1863 in Kluky near Čáslav. In 1896, the family moved to Davle, a beautiful place on the riverside of Vltava, about 12 miles south of Prague, where they lived in a large country-house. Their broadminded father became the director of a complex of nearby stone pits and brickworks. In Davle, young Vladislav was educated by a home teacher (tutor) between 1898-1904. In 1905, he and his older sisters moved to Prague to study there; Vladislav entered the fifth class of Elementary School in Josefská Street.
In 1907 Vladislav entered the Royal Gymnasium in Prague Lesser Town, but problems with school routine and pedantry of professors made him leave the next year. Between 1909 and 1910, he attended Royal Gymnasium in a small town of Benešov, about 30 miles south-east of Prague. It was an old school founded in 1704 and formerly led by the Piarist Order, with severe discipline and rigid professors. Vančura hated this school immensely; on May 14, 1909, he published his first short story V aleji (In Alley) in the literary supplement of Horkého týdeník (Horký's weekly magazine).
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