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Kohout
Kohout (feminine Kohoutová) is a Czech surname, meaning rooster. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleš Kohout (born 1972), Czech footballer * Antonín Kohout (1919–2013), Czech cellist * Eduard Kohout (1889–1976), Czech actor * Jan Kohout (born 1961), Czech diplomat and politician * Josef Kohout (1917–1994), Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor * Marta Kohoutová (1914–1953), Czechoslovak sprint canoer * Michal Kohout (born 1996), Czech cyclist * Milan Kohout (born 1955), Czech–American artist and writer * Pavel Kohout (born 1928), Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet * Pavel Kohout (organist) (born 1976), Czech organist * Slavka Kohout (born 1932), American figure skating coach * Zdeněk Kohout (born 1967), Czech bobsledder See also * * * Kohaut *Kohoutek *Kohut Kohut, Kogut, or Kohout is a surname of Slavic-language origin, meaning rooster. Notable people with the surname include: Kohut * Adolph Kohut (1848–1917), German-Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Kohout
Milan Kohout (born 1955 in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech–American performance artist, writer, and university lecturer. He was a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights declaration against the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, communist government of Czechoslovakia. Early life Kohout studied electrical engineering at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Plzen (now the University of West Bohemia). He was active in the Czech underground, as part of a movement known as the Second Culture. As a result of his political activities, he was forced to work in blue-collar occupations, such as several years working as a coal stoker at the Ethnographic Museum in Prague. In 1986 he was exiled from Czechoslovakia by the secret police, and spent two years in the Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria. In the United States He was granted political asylum in the United States, and moved to Boston, gaining a diploma from Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1993. He has t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Heger
Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) was an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality. He is best known for the 1972 book ''Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel'' (''The Men With the Pink Triangle''), which was written by his acquaintance Hans Neumann using the pen name Heinz Heger, which is often falsely attributed to Kohout. The book is one of very few first-hand accounts of the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi imprisonment. It has been translated into several languages, and a second edition published in 1994. It was the first testimony from a homosexual survivor of the concentration camps to be translated into English, and is regarded as the best known. Its publication helped to illuminate not just the suffering gay prisoners of the Nazi regime experienced, but the lack of recognition and compensation they received after the war's end. Kohout's book inspired the 1979 play '' Bent'', by Martin Sherman, which was made into the movie '' Bent'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohoutek
Kohoutek is a Czech surname. Kohoutek may refer to: * Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer and music theorist * Luboš Kohoutek (born 1935), Czech astronomer * "Kohoutek," a song by Journey from the album ''Journey'' * "Kohoutek", a song by R.E.M. from the album ''Fables of the Reconstruction'' See also * Comet Kohoutek, a comet discovered by and named in honor of the astronomer * 1850 Kohoutek, an asteroid also named in honor of the astronomer * Kohout * Kohut Kohut, Kogut, or Kohout is a surname of Slavic-language origin, meaning rooster. Notable people with the surname include: Kohut * Adolph Kohut (1848–1917), German-Hungarian journalist and historian * Andrew Kohut (1942–2015), American polls ... {{surname, Kohoutek Czech-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout (born 20 July 1928) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement. Biography He was still a devoted communist upon graduating from secondary school in 1947, and graduated from Charles University in 1952, with a degree in theater and aesthetics. He then became a member of the Central Committee of the , serving until 1960. It was during this period that he began writing plays and poetry. He was also a member of the . In 1956, he was briefly employed by Czechoslovak Television as a reporter and commentator. From 1963 to 1966, he was the dramaturge at Vinohrady Theatre. While there, he became attracted to the reform movement and resigned from the Union of Writers due to questions concerning his "cultural-political orientation". In 1967, following a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Kohout
Antonín Kohout (12 December 1919 – 15 February 2013) was a Czech cellist and founder of the Smetana Quartet. Life Kohout was born in Lubná in 1919. He studied with the cellist Karel Pravoslav Sádlo at Prague Conservatory; in 1941 at the Conservatory he met the violinist Václav Neumann, who invited him to join an amateur quartet. After changes of personnel the quartet, by then known as the Smetana Quartet, first performed professionally on 6 November 1945 at the Prague Municipal Library, with violinists Jaroslav Rybenský and Lubomír Kostecký, Neumann playing viola and Kohout playing cello; they played quartets by Bedřich Smetana and Vítězslav Novák. Kohout later said, "Our ideal was the Czech character of Smetana's music."Antonín Kohout obituary '' |
Slavka Kohout
Slavka Kohout (born December 14, 1932) is an American figure skating coach and former competitor, best known for coaching 5-time U.S. Champion Janet Lynn throughout her entire competitive career. Career As a skater, Kohout was twice the Midwestern sectional senior ladies champion, and she won the bronze medal in the 1950 U.S. junior ladies championships. After turning professional, she was manager and head coach at the Wagon Wheel Ice Palace in Rockton, Illinois for 17 years. During that period, the Wagon Wheel rink—part of a larger resort complex—was one of the top figure skating training centers in the United States. Kohout coached not only Lynn but also 3-time U.S. champion Gordon McKellen, several other international competitors, and other skaters who have gone on to become prominent coaches or skating judges, such as Shepherd Clark, The 2017, 2018, 2019 World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion of World Figure Sport / "WFS", at which Kohout was an official, an honoree, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kohout (organist)
Pavel Kohout (born 1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech organist. He is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the tutelage of Prof. Jaroslav Tůma. In 1999–2000 he continued his studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands under renowned specialist Prof. Jacques van Oortmerssen. Prizes *Winner of both the prestigious First Prize and the J. S. Bach Prize at one of the world's largest international organ competition Musashino – Tokyo 2000, Pavel Kohout is regarded today as one of the most brilliant representatives of the new generation of European organists. Pavel Kohout graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the guidance of Jaroslav Tůma. From 1999 he continued his studies in historical organ technique at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands with renowned specialist Prof. Jacques van Oortmers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Kohout
František Eduard Kohout (6 March 1889 – 25 October 1976) was a Czech stage, film actor and television actor.Mitchell p.57 Selected filmography * ''Battalion'' (1937) * '' The Magic House'' (1939) * ''Nocturnal Butterfly'' (1941) * '' Happy Journey'' (1943) * '' The Avalanche'' (1946) * ''Sign of the Anchor'' (1947) * ''Bohemian Rapture'' (1947) * ''Jan Hus'' (1954) * '' The King of Kings'' (1963) * ''The Cremator ''The Cremator'' ( cs, Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak dark comedy horror film directed by Juraj Herz, based on a novel by Ladislav Fuks. The screenplay was written by Herz and Fuks. The film was selected as the Czechoslovakian entry for ...'' (1969) References Bibliography * Mitchell, Charles P. ''The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002''. McFarland, 2004. External links * 1889 births 1976 deaths Czech male film actors Czech male stage actors Czech male television actors Actors from České Budějovice {{Czech-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kohout
Jan Kohout (born 29 March 1961) is a Czech diplomat and politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in caretaker governments of Jan Fischer and Jiří Rusnok. Between 1986–1989 he had been a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; since 1995 is a member of the Social Democratic Party but before accepting the office of Foreign Minister he suspended party membership. After the Velvet revolution, he entered the Czechoslovak and later Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as Ambassador to the EU in Brussels as well as Deputy Foreign Minister. After Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla resigned in 2004, Kohout was offered the post but refused; Stanislav Gross took over as Premier. Kohout is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleš Kohout
Aleš Kohout (born 3 January 1972) is a Czech former footballer who played as a forward. Career He played in the Gambrinus liga for FK Jablonec, scoring twice in 15 appearances. He scored the decisive goal in the final of the 1997–98 Czech Cup as Jablonec beat Drnovice. Kohout played in the second division for Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ... in the 1998–99 season. He subsequently played in the lower divisions in Germany. at worldfootball.net. Retrieved 5 June 2013. References 1972 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Kohout
Zdeněk Kohout (born 14 May 1967) is a Czech bobsledder. He competed in the two man event at the 1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron .... References 1967 births Living people Czech male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders of Czechoslovakia Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{CzechRepublic-bobsleigh-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Pavlisová
Marta Pavlisová, married Marta Kohoutová (29 July 1914 – 1953) was a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with her sister, Marie Zvolánková, born Pavlisová, she won a gold medal in the K-2 600 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm. Later she married, changing her family name to Pavlisová-Kohoutová. Under a new name, she won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo .... References Biography * * Czechoslovak female canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak 1914 births 1953 deaths {{CzechRepublic-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
