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Evening in Remembrance of Ivan Landsmann

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: June 1, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00

Evening of reminiscences about the writer, miner and humourist Ivan Landsmann.

A collage of his work that will include previously unpublished short stories presented by Ostrava friends, literati, actors and miners.

There will be readings, screenings and recollections of a friend, the author of five published books, the most highly regarded of which, Pestré vrstvy (Colourful Layers), has become a cult classic.

A native of Nový Jičín, Ivan Landsmann worked for many years as a miner and foreman in the mines of Ostrava’s Karviná district. From the mid-1980s he lived in the Netherlands, where, on the recommendation of Jaroslav Hutka, he began to write. This resulted in his first autobiographical novel Pestré vrstvy, which was Book of the Year in the Czech Republic in 1999 and also triumphed in the annual Lidové noviny poll. Pestré vrstvy became the basis for a theatre play of the same name which was successfully staged by the Divadlo Petra Bezruče theatre and Klub Les in Ostrava. The books Fotr (Dad), Vězení na svobodě (Prison At Liberty), Šestý smysl (The Sixth Sense) and Smetanová revoluce (The Crème Revolution) followed.

Ivan Landsmann died suddenly on 17 March 2017.

Participants: Přemysl Bureš, Jakub Chrobák, Jan Šnéberger, Tomáš Sosna, Šramy, Tonda Zelenka and others.

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