The first part of our commemorative series takes you to the library in Vietnamská street in Ostrava-Porubá. The artist Jiří Dratva, who has long been inspired by Karel Kryl’s work, has prepared an exhibition in the library for his double anniversary. Actors Anna Cónová and Miroslav Rataj also remembered Karel Kryl among paintings and drawings.
Writer and screenwriter Milan Švihálek was born in 1944. Like Karel Kryl. Olomouc and Ostrava became fateful cities for both of them. They both celebrated their 23rd birthday together during a chance meeting in Olomouc. What was their next fateful, this time creative meeting in Ostrava?
Karel Kryl recorded songs for his debut album Bratříčka, závírej vratka in the verbal Režia 2 in our Ostrava radio station. He wrote the famous protest song out of concern for the life of his younger brother Jan, who was in the army in August 1968. We talked with little brother Jan and his wife Vlasta in the third part of our memorial series.
Do you know how far it was for Karel Kryl from the Ostrava radio station to the daily bar Waldemar? 55 steps. On Good Friday, film and theater actor Přemysl Bureš prepared a program in honor of Karel Kryl Thank you in a legendary bar in Ostrava. You will hear what the atmosphere was like at the commemorative meeting, during which the artists went to the statue of Karel Kryl, in the 4th part of our commemorative series.
Together with Jiří Černý, “little brother” Jan Kryl, Vladimír Merta and Dagmar Andrtová-Voňková, we will follow in the Ostrava footsteps of Karel Kryl. In the documentary filmed in 2014, we will also offer you an archival recording of the Folkforum when Karel Kryl returned to Ostrava in December 1989, and an interview with him before the first free elections.
Karel Kryl’s performance on December 7, 1989 at the Palace of Culture and Sports in Ostrava|photo: Petr Berger, ČTK
