Jiří Wolker () (29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - in 1921.

Life

He was born in Prostějov, into a cultural family. He studied at the Prostějov gymnasium, and after he graduated, he moved to Prague. He studied law there, but simultaneously attended lectures of

Zdeněk Nejedlý Zdeněk Nejedlý (10 February 1878 – 9 March 1962) was a Czech musicologist, historian, music critic, author, and politician whose ideas dominated the cultural life of what is now the Czech Republic for most of the twentieth century. Although ...

and F. X. Šalda at the Faculty of Arts. He was in close connection with the association of Czech avant-garde artists

Devětsil The Devětsil () was an association of Czech avant-garde artists, founded in 1920 in Prague. From 1923 on there was also an active group in Brno. The movement discontinued its activities in 1930 (1927 in Brno). Founded as U. S. Devětsil (Uměleck ...

. Wolker suffered of lung disease and died of tuberculosis at age 23.

Work

* ''Host do domu'' (1921) - poetry * ''Proletářské umění'' (1922) * ''Těžká hodina'' (1922) - poetry, the book jacket of the first edition was created by the Czech painter Josef Čapek. * ''Tři hry'' (1923) - plays, rather marginal meaning * ''Do boje, lásko, leť''

References

* Bohuš Balajka: ''Přehledné dějiny literatury II.'' Prague: Fortuna, 2005.

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Czech male poets Czech male dramatists and playwrights Czech journalists Writers from Prostějov Czech people of German descent 1900 births 1924 deaths Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians 20th-century Czech poets 20th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights Communist poets 20th-century journalists 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Czechoslovakia Tuberculosis deaths in the Czech Republic {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub