Jiří Grossmann

• Name — Jiří Grossmann • Born — 20 July 1941 • Birthplace — Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia • Died — 5 December 1971 • Place of death — Prague, Czechoslovakia

• Illustration — Jiří Grossmann with Miloslav Šimek in Návštěvní den Grossmann was born in Prague. After his graduation, he started at the Czech Technical University in Prague, but left in 1962 when he met Miloslav Šimek in the Olympik bar. Grossmann performed with Dixie Party Band in the Olympik Theatre Club, playing on contrabass also. They immediately established a theatre double and started writing poems, short stories and stage plays. Their first theatre group was called Mlok. Grossmann and Šimek's most famous project was Navštěvní den, a theatre-styled show performed in theatre Semafor. The duo was persecuted after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 following the Prague Spring. When Grossmann realized he was dying of Hodgkin lymphoma, he wrote one of his most sad lyrics called Závidím (I am envious) expressing fears of death. On 5 December 1971, Grossmann died in the hospital. The Jiří Grossmann Theatre and Prague's Jiří Grossmann's Archway commemorate him today.

• Year — Name — English Title — Movie/TV • 1968 — Zločin v šantánu — Crime in a Music Hall — Movie • 1969 — Návštěvní den Miloslava Šimka a Jiřího Grossmanna — Visiting Day of Miloslav Simek and Jiri Grossmann — TV • 1969 — Návštěvní den č. 2 — Visiting Day No.2 — TV • 1969 — Návštěvní den č. 3 — Visiting Day No.3 — TV • 1969 — Návštěvní den č. 4 — Visiting Day No.4 — not played • 1970 — Návštěvní den č. 5 — Visiting Day No.5 — TV • 1970 — Návštěvní den č. 6 — Visiting Day No.6 — TV