Jiří Suchý
A magical artist—poet, lyricist, playwright and actor—Jiří Suchý was born in 1931 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. In 1947, as a graphic designer in the advertising agency Propagační tvorba in Prague, he met Viktor Sodoma, a musician who memorized and played songs from western radio broadcasts to his colleagues. Together, Suchý and Sodoma created their first private broadcasting programs.
During his military service, Suchý began composing lyrics from songs heard on Radio Munich. One of the preserved texts—Potkala ryba papouška (The Fish Met a Parrot)—was later recorded by the brilliant singer Ljuba Hermanová.
Jiří Suchý soon focused on theatre—performing in Reduta with Jiří Šlitr, Miroslav Horníček and Ivan Vyskočil—establishing in 1959, the legendary Semafor theater company (Sedm Malých Forem) at the Ve Smečkách Theatre—co-founding the Na Zábradlí Theatre—and in recent times working with Josef Dvořák and the singer-actress Jitka Molavcová.
Suchý’s work includes collections of poetry Černá vzducholod (The Black Vessel), Trocha ...
Jiří Suchý: Dead Piano Player Blues
The hands of a dead piano player are no different than the hands of other people.
Jiří Suchý: Fragment of Dialogue
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