Konstantin Biebl
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Born | Slavětín, Austria-Hungary | 26 February 1898
Died | 12 November 1951 Prague, Czechoslovakia | (aged 53)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Czech |
Notable works | S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu Nový Ikaros |
Spouse | Marie Bieblová |
Konstantin Biebl (26 February 1898,
Biography
Early life
Konstantin Biebl was born in
Literary career
He wrote his first poems in a student
In 1925 he went to
In 1927 he fell in love with Marie Bulovová, daughter of a rich ironmonger from Louny. His friend Karel Konrád who introduced them told Biebl, "There is dough."[4]
In 1929 the most famous of his poems were published – Nový Ikaros (New Icarus). When seven communist poets (Jaroslav Seifert, Josef Hora, Ivan Olbracht, Stanislav Kostka Neumann and others) stood against the new Communist leader Klement Gottwald and left the party, Biebl was in the pro-Moscow group of poets with Julius Fučík, Vítězslav Nezval, František Halas and Karel Teige.[2]
In 1931 Biebl married Marie Bulovová in Louny. His best man was
He worked as a dental assistant in his mother's office in the 1930s. He also became active in the Czech Surrealist movement and signed most of the documents published by the Surrealist group in Czechoslovakia. He wrote little and did not acknowledge his previous work, except in 1936 when he published several poems to the memory of Karel Hynek Mácha.[2]
Later life
During
In 1949 he became ill with pancreatitis and went to Karlovy Vary for a cure at the spa. He published his largest book (in its largest edition – over 10,000 copies), the collection of poems Bez obav (Unafraid) in 1951.[2] He committed suicide in Prague, where he jumped out of a window on the fifth floor on 12 November 1951 (several sources state 11 November for the jump). Vítězslav Nezval wrote an excusatory poem Kosťo, proč nezdvihs aspoň telefon? (Kosta, why didn't you just pick up the phone?).[3] The circumstances and especially the cause of the suicide have never been clear.
Works
- Cesta k lidem (1923)
- Věrný hlas (1924)
- Zlom (1925)
- Zloděj z Bagdadu (1925)
- Zlatými řetězy (1926)
- Modré stíny (1926)
- S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu (1927)
- Nový Ikaros (1929)
- Nebe peklo ráj (1930)
- Plancius (1931)
- Zrcadlo noci (1939)
- Bez obav (1951)
- Cesta na Jávu (1958)
See also
References
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- ^ ed. Milan Blahynka: Čeští spisovatelé 20. století, Prague 1985 (in Czech)
- ^ a b c d e f g Vladimír Justl: Život a dílo Konstantina Biebla, in: Konstantin Biebl – Modré stíny pod zlatými stromy, Prague 1988 (in Czech)
- ^ a b c d e "Biebl Konstantin". Czech Who was who (in Czech). Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ a b David Hertl. "Marie Bieblová". Český rozhlas Sever (Czech Radio North) (in Czech). Retrieved October 23, 2011.