Who is in exile: Paul Barton, or Jiří Veltruský? The twofold exile of a theatre scholar and political activist

DROZD, David. Who is in exile: Paul Barton, or Jiří Veltruský? The twofold exile of a theatre scholar and political activist. In Exiles from Hungary, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1989; Regensburg, November 17-18, 2023. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Who is in exile: Paul Barton, or Jiří Veltruský? The twofold exile of a theatre scholar and political activist
• Authors: DROZD, David.
• Edition: Exiles from Hungary, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1989; Regensburg, November 17-18, 2023, 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60403 Performing arts studies
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): Jiří Veltruský; Pražská škola v exilu
• Keywords in English: Jiří Veltruský; Prague School in elixe

Abstract

The paper was discussing life and work of scholar Jiří Veltruský and his twofold professional life in exile, which is divided between work for Independent Trade Unions and policital activist writing (under pseudonym Pau Barton) and publishing semiotics paper (under name Jiří Veltruský). The paper opens up question of contextualising Veltruský’s/Barton’s life and work. He operated within two very different exile communities: on the one hand, the Czechoslovak Social Democrats and trade unions members, while on the other, the Czechoslovak scholars of Structuralism (mainly former students of Mukařovský). Veltruský’s persona and his life story defy an easy summary and serve as a good testing point for analysing different strategies of activists and of academics in exile.

Links

• MUNI/A/1445/2022, interní kód MU: Name: Výzkum divadelní kultury v interdisciplinárních přesazích IV.

Investor: Masaryk University, Interdisciplinary Research of Theatre Culture IV.