Rejecting the Magical Power of Idols - Zdeněk Rotrekl, Brno, 1920–2013
Rejecting the Magical Power of Idols - Zdeněk Rotrekl, Brno, 1920–2013

Author(s): Petr Placák
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; Zdeněk Rotrekl; Brno; 1920; 2013; magical power; Idols; Catholic church; communist regime;
Summary/Abstract: On 15 June 2013 the St. Thomas Church on the Moravian Square in Brno witnessed a large and solemn ceremony – a requiem for Zdeněk Rotrekl, a literary historian, critic, journalist and above all poet, a witness of truth, which in the “order of things” of the previous regime also meant a political prisoner. He died at the age of nearly ninety-three years – a doyen of not only Catholic poets, imprisoned by the communists right after seizing power at the end of the 1940s to intimidate the whole intellectual community. The remarkable terrestrial pilgrimage of a remarkable man ended at the St. Thomas Church in Brno – in the same place where Rotrekl was baptized in the early 1920s. His life story introduced the supernal order.

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