Karel Kryl (1944 – 1994) an iconic Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter, and author of many hit protest songs citing the hypocrisy of the Communist regime in his home country. He was born in the Nazi occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and moved to Prague as an assistant at Czechoslovak Television. He left Prague to attend a music festival in response to the Warsaw Pact and Prague Spring. Over the course of his career, Kryl wrote and produced multiple songs and won awards such as the Jan Zahradnicek for Czech Poetry, a silver medal from Charles University, the Czech Grammy, the Medal of Merit II, and the Frantisek Kriegl Award. He passed away of a heart attack in Munich in 1994.
Discipline:
Music Composition, Literature – poetry
Karel Kryl
Discipline:
Music Composition, Literature – poetry
Region: Munich, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981
Studios
Mansfield
Karel Kryl worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…