Stanislav Kostka Neumann

The recorded working language is Esperanto, Czech and French. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and journalism. Places of work recorded in the authority are Řečkovice. Positions recorded include member of parliament and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia. Distinctions recorded are Národní umělec.

• Name — Stanislav Kostka Neumann • Birth Name — Stanislav Jan Konstantin Václav Bohudar • Born — 5 June 1875 • Birthplace — Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary • Died — 28 June 1947 • Place of death — Prague, Czechoslovakia • Occupation — Poet

• Illustration — Caricature of S. K. Neumann by František Gellner • Illustration — Memorial of S. K. Neumann in Bílovice nad Svitavou Stanislav Kostka Neumann was born on 5 June 1875 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. His father, a lawyer and member of Imperial Council, died when Stanislav was five years old. Stanislav was raised by his mother and aunts. He studied a gymnasium in Prague, but did not graduate. He was arrested in 1893 for his anarchist tendencies and sentenced to fourteen months in prison. He served his sentence in Plzeň-Bory.[1][2] From 1897 to 1905, he worked as the chief editor of his own magazine, Nový kult ('new cult'), which brought together Czech anarchists.[3] Neumann's villa in Prague-Žižkov (called Olšanská vila) became a place where Neumann's literary and anarchist friends met, including František Gellner, Karel Toman, Marie Majerová, Fráňa Šrámek, Viktor Dyk, Jiří Mahen and Rudolf Těsnohlídek.[4][5] In 1905, Neumann shortly lived in Vienna, but then he moved to Řečkovice (today part of Brno). In 1907, he moved to Bílovice nad Svitavou. He lived there until 1915. From 1915 to 1917, during World War I, Neumann served as a soldier in the medical corps during the campaign in Albania and Macedonia. After the war, he moved back to Prague. He was married twice.[6] He is the father of the actor Stanislav Neumann (1902–1975).[7] Neumann wrote his first poems in jail in 1893. He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist (I Am an Apostle of the New Life), anarchist (A Dream About a Crowd of Desperate People, and Other Verses), landscape lyric (The Book of Forests, Hills, and Waters), civilist (New Songs), communist (Red Songs) and others. He helped found the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[8] Neumann died on 28 June 1947 in Prague, aged 72. He was buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery, but in 2021, his grave was moved to Olšany Cemetery.[9]

His collections of poems include: • Jsem apoštol nového žití ('I Am an Apostle of the New Life'; 1896) • Sen o zástupu zoufajících a jiné básně ('A Dream About a Crowd of Desperate People, and Other Verses'; 1903) • České zpěvy ('Czech Songs'; 1910) • Kniha lesů, vod a strání ('The Book of Forests, Hills, and Waters'; 1914) • Nové zpěvy ('New Songs'; 1918) • Třicet zpěvů z rozvratu ('Thirty Songs of Times of Ruin'; 1918) • Rudé zpěvy ('Red Songs'; 1923) • Láska ('Love'; 1933) • Srdce a mračna ('Heart and Clouds'; 1935) • Sonáta horizontálního života ('Sonata of Earthly Horizons'; 1937) • Bezedný rok ('Bottomless Year'; 1945) • Zamořená léta ('Plague-ridden Years'; 1946) Neumann also devoted himself to translating works from French and Russian.[10]

He also worked under the names Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Antikrist and Apostata. The authorities additionally record the headings S. Neumann, Kostka Neumann and Stanislav Karel Neumann. His recorded languages were Esperanto, Czech, French and Russian. He was the child of Stanislav Neumann. He married Kamilla Neumannová and Božena Neumannová. 3 children are recorded: Stanislav Neumann, Kamila Značkovská-Neumannová and Soňa Škodová-Neumannová.

Stanislav Kostka Neumann worked in creative and professional writing, poetry, journalism, political activity and literary criticism. Recorded positions include member of parliament and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia. He worked at Řečkovice.

Stanislav Kostka Neumann is recorded as poet, esperantist, translator, journalist and writer.