Jiří Marek

Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (30 May 1914, in Prague – 10 December 1994, in Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

Books

 * Pečeť věrnosti (1944)
 * Vstup do strany (1952)
 * Pionýr Feďa (1953)
 * Střelnice (1962)
 * Blažený věk (1968)
 * Můj strýc Odysseus (1974)
 * Muži jdou v tmě (1946)
 * Vesnice pod zemí (1949)
 * Pohádky vzhůru nohama (1958)
 * Autopohádky ("Car Fairy Tales") (1965)
 * From The Princess Who Never Smiled in Marek's car world: "Once upon the time there lived three Kings: King of petroleum, King of gasoline, and automobile King..." His Petroleumness had a princess who never smiled. The hero of the story is Vendelín the Car Mechanic whose car had all superb equipment, "not to say about pedestrian catcher".
 * In 1983 a German comedy film Car Fairy Tales based on the stories was produced by Erwin Stranka
 * In 2004 the band Chinaski with the participation of Jiří Lábus and Lucie Bílá released a double audio CD, Autopohádky (album) with three fairy tales, and 8 songs
 * In 2011, a CD with 4 animated films was released, with three based on the original Marek's stories, the fourth being a new one. Music is by Chinaski and the narrator is Michal Malátný, the frontman of Chinaski.
 * Panoptikum starých kriminálních příběhů (1968)
 * Panoptikum hříšných lidí (1971)
 * Panoptikum Města pražského (1979)
 * OK 096 se nehlásí (1979)
 * Sůl země 1, 2 (1981)
 * Psí hvězda Sirius aneb láskyplné vyprávěnky o psech (1982)
 * Tristan aneb O lásce (1985)
 * Čas lásky a nenávisti (1986)

Filmography

 * The Sinful People of Prague
 * Panoptikum města pražského.