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Jaromír Typlt

Jaromír Typlt (* July 25, 1973, Jilemnice) is a Czech poet, writer, essayist, performer, art curator, and editor.[1]

Life

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Typlt spent his childhood in Nová Paka. He comes from a family of a forestry worker and a nurse and is the third of four children.[2]

He studied philosophy and Czech literature at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, graduating in 1997 with a doctoral thesis on Czech surrealist poetry. After completing his alternative civilian military service at the Fokus MYklub[3] in Liberec association for the care of people with mental illness—where he also initiated several exhibitions and publishing projects—he became the curator of the Small Exhibition Hall (Malá výstavní síň) in Liberec in 2000. From 2008 to 2010, he was also the curator of the Gallery U Rytíře in Liberec.[4]

In 2017, he enrolled in a doctoral program in comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, during which he completed a study stay in Paris at the Université Sorbonne in 2020–2021. Since the beginning of 2018, he has also been collaborating with the Art Cultural and Community Center in Letná, Prague. In September 2022, he co-founded the gallery Art brut Praha, of which he is a curator.[5]

Works

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Typlt belongs in the new generation of Czech authors who, just after 1989, gathered around the magazine Iniciály.[6] The first period of his work is characterized primarily by an emphasis on imagination (Ztracené peklo, 1994), as well as an effort to capture the atmosphere of native region (Pohyblivé prahy chrámů, 1991) and (Opakem o překot, 1996).[4]

After 1999, he began experimenting with various crossovers between literature and other art forms (bibliophile editions and artist books, short films, stage performances, sound recordings, and improvisations), and compiled the results in Stisk (2007).[7] Since 2009, he has been performing in the sound-text improvisation project Škrábanice [Scribbles] with composer Michal Rataj.[8] As a performer and text author, he has also collaborated with other contemporary music composers – Vlastislav Matoušek, Jan Rybář, Miroslav Tóth, Tomáš Vtípil, Petr Wajsar, and others. He wrote texts for books created by Liberec graphic artist Jan Měřička (Vniveč, 1999; Hlavolomy, 2000).[7]

Typlt has appeared in several films and theater performances. In 1996, he played a role (Žvejkoun No. 4) in the film Code Name: Ruby directed by Jan Němec, and in 2020, he appeared in the feature-length documentary Krkonoše Pilgrimage (Pouť krkonošská) directed by Karel Čtveráček. He also performs with Pavel Novotný in a stage adaptation of Kurt Schwitters' poem Ursonate (premiered in 2006).[9]

In his theoretical work, Typlt focuses on several key themes: post-war Czech surrealism and so-called “total realism,” the work of writers and artists from his native region (Ladislav Zívr, Josef Kocourek, Jan Opolský, Josef K. Šlejhar, spiritualist mediums, and others)[3], and Czech art brut, including its written manifestations (so-called écrits bruts). In 2001, he was the first to introduce and theoretically comment on the drawings of Zdeněk Košek, who became one of the most internationally acclaimed expressions of Czech art brut with works included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.[10][11][12] Since 2018, he has also highlighted these topics in numerous popular lectures. The most significant achievement in this area is undoubtedly his book-length monography on sculptor Ladislav Zívr, published in 2013.[13]

He occasionally translates poetry from German and French, and in collaboration with Zuzana Li, also from Chinese (Jidi Majia: Words in Flames, 2016).

He has performed at international poetry festivals, including in Vilenica (1995), Vilnius (2012), Xichang (2016), Druskininkai (2016), Tbilisi (2017), Lima (2017), Bucharest (2019), and at the book fair in Leipzig (2019)

Bibliography

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Poetry a experimental texts

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Prozaic works

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  • Pohyblivé prahy chrámů, Mladá fronta, 1991
  • Zápas s rodokmenem, Pražská imaginace, 1993
  • Opakem o překot, Host, 1996
  • Víra v únavu, Herrmann & synové, 2003
  • Jedna věta, Revolver Revue, 2024
  • Pole nade mnou, Theo, 2006

Plays

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  • Dříve než vzápětí, edice Tvary, 1994 - scenically 2018, 2023 in antology České surrealistické drama

Essays and monographies

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  • Rozžhavená kra, Votobia, 1996
  • Kakofroň, edice Ještě teď, 2001
  • Jak se dělá počasí, Fokus Liberec 2001
  • Ladislav Zívr, Kant, 2013

Translations

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Translations of Typlt’s poetry have been published in various magazines and collections, including Hebenon (Italy, 2011), Die Horen (Germany, 2012), Wyspa (Poland, 2016), Nunc (France, 2016), and Akhali saunje (Georgia, 2017).[2]

  • oder schnurstracks, hochroth Leipzig, 2018 - in Czech and German, translated by Martin Mutschler
  • Michal über Nacht, Kant, 2019 - in German, translation by Max Zaloudek in collaboration with Nikola Mizerová
  • Sau aproape, Junimea, 2020 - In Czech and Romanian, translated by Mircea Dan Duță

Other works

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CDs

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In collaboration with Michal Rataj:

  • Škrábanice/Scribbles, 2015
  • Zaškrábnutí/Scribble More, 2020
  • Škrábanice ve Věži/Scribbles in the Tower, 2024

References

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  1. ^ "Jaromír Typlt". Nakladatelství Argo (in Czech). Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  2. ^ a b "English – Jaromír Typlt" (in Czech). Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  3. ^ a b MALÁ, Kateřina (2025). The Analogy in the Fictive Poetics and the Works of Josef Kocourek and Jaromír Typlt (Master thesis). Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Filozofická fak. p. 15.
  4. ^ a b Novotný, Vladimír; Piorecký, Karel; Košnarová, Veronika Košnarová (2025-09-12). "Jaromír Typlt". slovnikceskeliteratury.cz.
  5. ^ Brezina, Ivan (2025-04-03). "Umění je to, co za umění někdo považuje. Art brut někdy vzniká v transu, říká kurátor". iDNES.cz. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  6. ^ BALAŠŤÍK, Miroslav (2007). "Čekání na básníka: (mladá básnická generace na počátku 90. let 20. století)" (PDF). Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity (in Czech). 56 (V10): 195–201. ISBN 978-80-210-4686-3. ISSN 1213-2144.
  7. ^ a b Hruška, Petr, ed. (2008). V souřadnicích volnosti: česká literatura devadesátých let dvacátého století v interpretacích. Praha: Academia. pp. 132–137, 278–284. ISBN 978-80-200-1630-0.
  8. ^ RIEDEL, Jaroslav (2025-09-12) [June 2020]. "JAROMÍR TYPLT, MICHAL RATAJ: Zaškrábnutí". www.magazinuni.cz.
  9. ^ "Typlt Jaromír (bio ENG) | autor(ka) | 1 | iROZHLAS - rychlé a spolehlivé zprávy". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  10. ^ "Zdenek Kosek". christianberst.com. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  11. ^ "Zdeněk Košek". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  12. ^ "Býval to ústecký podivín, dnes je světovým tvůrcem art brut. Díla Zdeňka Koška právě vystavují v Paříži". Vltava (in Czech). 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  13. ^ TYPLT, Jaromír (2013). Ladislav Zívr (in Czech). Czech Republic: KANT. ISBN 978-80-7437-029-8.
  14. ^ s.r.o, JIROUT REKLAMNÍ AGENTURA. "Vítězem Ceny Jiřího Ortena 1994 se stal". WebManager (in Czech). Retrieved 2025-09-12.
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