Julius Fučík

Julius Fučík (February 23rd, 1903 - September 8th, 1943) is a writer, Czechoslovakian Journaliste , critical of théätre, an active member of the Czechoslovakian Communist party and one of principal resistant to the Nazism. He was imprisoned, tortured and killed. It should not be confused with its homonym Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fučík, type-setter.

Beginnings

Julius Fučík is born in a working-class family, her father working in the metallurgy. In 1913, Fučík moves Prague with Plzeň where he studies at the public lycée. Already at 12 years, he wants to draw up a newspaper named " Slovan" ( Slavic the ) and an unquestionable interest for the policy and the literature shows. During its adolescence, it makes theater.

Journalism and policy

In 1920 it begins studies in Prague and joined the rows of the democratic social Czechoslovakian Party of the workers, before finding itself in its currents of left. In May 1921, this branch of the party founds the Czechoslovakian Communist party. Fučík writes then cultural contributions for the local communist newspaper of Plzeň.

After having supplemented its studies, Fučík finds a position of editor with the literary journal Kmen and engange in the artistic movement of avant-garde Devětsil. It becomes responsible for cultural work within the Czechoslovakian Communist party. In 1929 it joined the magazine of the literary critic František Xaver Šalda, Tvorba . Moreover, it continued to work on the communist daily newspaper Rudé Právo and other newspapers. During this period it was stopped on several occasions by the secret police Tchécoslovaque and succeeds in avoiding a eight month custodial sentence in 1934.

In 1930, he visits the Soviet Union for four months and draws up of it a portrait very favorable in its book To the Country where tomorrow is already yesterday (V zemi, kde will zítra již znamená will včera) (1932). In July 1934, just before Hitler liquidates SA, he visits the Bavaria and described his impressions in In Way towards Munich (Cesta C Mnichova) . He turns over to the USSR in 1934 per two years, and writes several reports/ratios, still in favor of the Party.

On its return, it is implied in sharp arguments with authors such as Jiří Weil and Jan Slavik, criticisms of the developments under Stalin. Fučík takes the defense of the Soviet Union by qualifying these attacks of unfounded.

In 1938, Fučík marries Augusta Kodeřičová, later known under the name of Gusta Fučíková.

Following the Agreements of Munich, the government in Prague dissolves the Czechoslovakian Communist party in September 1938 which continues its activities in clandestinity. After the invasion of the troops Nazis in March 1938, Fučík moves in his/her parents with Chotiměř and continuous to publish in newspapers, especially on historical and literary subjects. It also starts to work for the clandestine PCT. In 1940 the Gestapo starts to seek it in Chotiměř because of its co-operation with the PCT, it then decides to go back to Prague.

Starting from the beginning of 1941, it belongs to the Central committee of the PCT. It prepares leaflets and tries to publish Rudé Právo with regular intervals. The April 24th 1942, it is stopped, with six other members of the Party in Prague by Gestapo, probably coincidentally during a police raid. Although Fučík has a revolver on him, it does not make use of it. The only surviving one of the incident, Rivetted Friedová-Krieglová, will reveal later, in the Nineties, that Fučík had received orders to be killed to avoid being captured

Writing under the bracket

Lawsuit and death

Fučík as an ideological symbol

Called into question

Works

Quotations

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