Pavel Tigrid

Pavel Tigrid

Pavel Tigrid (October 27, 1917 in Prague, Austria-Hungary as Pavel Schönfeld August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France) was a writer, publisher and author of Czech origin. He is considered one of the most important personalities of the Czech exile journalism.[1]

Biography

He left Czechoslovakia as a young man to evade the Nazis. In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) when he worked as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda in BBC, and kept it for the rest of his life. Returning after the end of World War II, he continued his publishing career, soon clashing with the ascendant communist ideology. Fleeing arrest, he emigrated to West Germany, later moved to USA and finally settled in France. During the Cold War, Tigrid was a prominent representative of Czech anti-communist exile, authored several books and published numerous publications, for example the magazine Svědectví ("Testimony"), read both in exile circles and by dissidents in Czechoslovakia from 1956 to 1992. He returned to Prague for the second time after the Velvet Revolution, has been active in public life and served as a Minister of Culture (1994-96), but after an unsuccessful campaign for election to the Czech Senate, he retired to France where died in 2003.

Literary works

References

  1. Přibáň, Michal (March 2009). "Kdo byl kdo v české exilové literatuře let 1948-1968". HOST (3): 25.
Government offices
Preceded by
Jindřich Kabát
Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic
1994–1996
Succeeded by
Jaromír Talíř
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