For the organist with the same name, see Pavel Kohout.

Pavel Kohout, Warsaw (Poland), March 12, 2008

Pavel Kohout and his wife, Jelena Mašínová, Prague (Czech Republic), October 25, 2007

Pavel Kohout (born July 20, 1928, Prague) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.

Because he and other dissident theatre workers had been banned from working in the official theatre, he formed the company Living-Room Theatre with the actors Pavel Landovský, Vlasta Chramostová, Vlastimil Třešňák, and his daughter, Tereza Boučková to covertly perform an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth in living rooms in Prague. Czech-born UK playwright Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth is inspired by these events.

His most notable play is the drama Poor Murderer, that opened on Broadway in Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1976. It is based on the short story "Thought" by Leonid Andreyev.^[1]

His novels include White Book (an absurdist picture of life under Communism), I Am Snowing (a post-Communism story about the opening of the Communist-era secret police informer files, the effect of that opening on the informers and their victims, and thus about the corrosive effect of the Communist regime), The Widow Killer (a detective story set in World War II Nazi-occupied Prague), and The Hangwoman (a black-humor story about executioners).

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Vít Bárta
Minister of Transport
In office 13 July 2010 – 21 April 2011
Preceded by	Gustáv Slamečka
Succeeded by	Radek Šmerda
Personal details
Born	5 December 1973 Prague
Profession	businessman

Vít Bárta (born 5 December 1973) is the former Czech Minister of Transport,^[1] member and leader of the political party Public Affairs (Věci veřejné).

Political career[link]

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and became a member of Petr Nečas' cabinet. He rejected his salary for the minister office and donates the money to the charity.

Controversy[link]

In April, 2011, Bárta was accused of bribery by his colleagues from Public Affairs, deputies Jaroslav Škárka, Stanislav Huml, and Kristýna Kočí. The deputies were subsequently expelled from the party. The incident caused serious problems in the Czech government coalition.^[2]

On 8 April 2011, Bárta announced his resignation from the government of Petr Nečas.^[3]

A year later, in April 2012, Barta was convicted of bribery and conditionally sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment.^[4]

See also[link]

• Politics of the Czech Republic

References[link]

v t e Ministers of Transport of the Czech Republic Stráský · Budínský · Říman · Moos · Peltrám · Schling · Šimonovský · Řebíček · Bendl · Slamečka · Bárta · Šmerda · Dobeš

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Jan Černý

Jan Černý (4 March 1874, Uherský Ostroh, Moravia – 10 April 1959, Uherský Ostroh) was a Czechoslovakian civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926.

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• (Czech) Biography

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