Jiří Marek Explained

Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (30 May 1914, in Prague – 10 December 1994, in Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter.^[1] In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

Books

• Pečeť věrnosti (1944)
• Vstup do strany (1952)
• Pionýr Feďa (1953)
• Střelnice (1962)
• Blažený věk (1968)
• Můj strýc Odysseus (1974)
• Muži jdou v tmě (1946)
• Vesnice pod zemí (1949)
• Pohádky vzhůru nohama (1958)
• Autopohádky ("Car Fairy Tales") (1965)
  • From The Princess Who Never Smiled in Marek's car world: "Once upon the time there lived three Kings: King of petroleum, King of gasoline, and automobile King..." His Petroleumness had a princess who never smiled. The hero of the story is Vendelín the Car Mechanic whose car had all superb equipment, "not to say about pedestrian catcher".
  • In 1983 a German comedy film based on the stories was produced by ^[3]
  • In 2004 the band Chinaski with the participation of Jiří Lábus and Lucie Bílá released a double audio CD, with three fairy tales, and 8 songs
  • In 2011, a CD with 4 animated films was released, with three based on the original Marek's stories, the fourth being a new one. Music is by Chinaski and the narrator is, the frontman of Chinaski.^{[3] [4]}
• Panoptikum starých kriminálních příběhů (1968)
• Panoptikum hříšných lidí (1971)
• Panoptikum Města pražského (1979)
• OK 096 se nehlásí (1979)
• Sůl země 1, 2 (1981)
• Psí hvězda Sirius aneb láskyplné vyprávěnky o psech (1982)
• Tristan aneb O lásce (1985)
• Čas lásky a nenávisti (1986)

Filmography

• The Sinful People of Prague
• Panoptikum města pražského.

Notes and References

1. Adamovič, Ivan; NNeff, Ondřej. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha : R3, 1995. . Chapter "Marek, Jiří", p. 144
2. Web site: 4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965) . 2 December 2012 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145645/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1965 . January 16, 2013 .
3. https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/228060-autopohadky-pribehy-ktere-spojuje-rev-i-duse-motoru.html "Autopohádky - příběhy, které spojuje řev i duše motorů"
4. https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/kultura/1278796-autopohadky-prijizdeji "Autopohádky přijíždějí"