Anna proletarka / Praha - Zizkov, CZ
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Velicenstvo
N 50° 05.292 E 014° 28.169
33U E 462048 N 5548572
Quick Description: CS: socha Anny proletarky, hrdinky stejnojmenneho romanu Ivana Olbrachta / EN: a statue of Anna the Proletarian - heroine of the same name novel by Ivan Olbracht
Location: Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
Date Posted: 2/3/2012 10:31:53 AM
Waymark Code: WMDN1Y
Published By: Groundspeak Premium Member TheBeanTeam
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Long Description:
CS: Socha Anny proletarky stoji v malem parku na prazskem Zizkove. Anna proletarka je postava ze stejnojmenne knihy Ivana Olbrachta.
Dej knihy z roku 1928 se odehrava po 1. svetove valce a lici pribeh mlade sluzebne Anny na pozadi vzniku delnickeho hnuti a komunisticke strany v Ceskoslovensku. Vetsich uspechu se dilo dockalo po nastupu komunistu k moci v roce 1948 a v roce 1952 vznikl stejnojmenny film.

Bronzovou sochu Anny proletarky vytvoril v roce 1962 sochar Ladislav Kovarik.

Ivan Olbracht (1882-1952) byl cesky spisovatel, publicista a novinar. Proslule jsou zejmena jeho knihy z prostredi Podkarpatske Rusi. Ve dvacatych letech byl clenem KSC a rovnez napsal roman Anna proletarka, ktery se stal jednim ze stezejnich del komunismu v Ceskoslovensku.

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EN: The statue of Anna the Proletarian is placed in a small park in Zizkov. Anna the Proletarian is a heroine of the same name novel written by Ivan Olbracht in 1928.
The story is about young housemaid on a background of formation of worker's movement and communistic party in Czechoslovakia after World War I. The novel had become very popular after 1948 - from the beginning of totalitarian communistic government. The same name movie was filmed in 1952.

The statue was created by Ladislav Kovarik in 1962. It is made out of bronze and stands on a granite pedestal.

Ivan Olbracht (1882-1952) was a Czech novelist and journalist. He became very popular because of his novels from Carpathian Ruthenia (part of Czechoslovakia between world wars, now Ukrainian territory). In 1920s Olbracht was a member of Czechoslovak Communist Party and also wrote novel Anna the Proletarian. This book then became one of the crucial writings of Czechoslovak communism.
Character Type: Literature

Character originator: Ivan Olbracht

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Address or Location:
in a park next to Jeseniova elementary school
(near an intersection of streets Jeseniova and Jana Zelivskeho)


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