Jiří Marek

Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (30 May 1914, in Prague – 10 December 1994, in Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter.[1][2] In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.[3]

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".[4]
    • In 1983 a German comedy film Car Fairy Tales based on the stories was produced by Erwin Stranka [5]
    • In 2004 the band Chinaski with the participation of Jiří Lábus and Lucie Bílá released a double audio CD, Autopohádky 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 Michal Malátný, the frontman of Chinaski.[5][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

References
  1. Jiří Marek at IMDb
  2. Adamovič, Ivan; NNeff, Ondřej. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha : R3, 1995. ISBN 80-85364-57-3. Chapter "Marek, Jiří", p. 144
  3. "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  4. "Autopohádky přijíždějí"
  5. "Autopohádky - příběhy, které spojuje řev i duše motorů"


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