Samizdat magazine 'Vokno'

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On the vons.cz site, you can find a complete electronic version of the samizdat magazine Vokno, which was published between 1979 and 1989.

The samizdat magazine was published by František Stárek together with his friends, and it was the main periodical of the cultural underground. The members of the Defense Committee of Unjustly Prosecuted People (VONS) also contributed to this magazine. In 1981, František Stárek, Ivan Jirous, Michal Hýbek and Milan Frič were arrested in connection with the publication of Vokno (while preparating the sixth – incomplete – volume). All were convicted of unconditional sentences of imprisonment. When František Stárek returned from prison, the magazine was relaunched, and the Voknoviny newsletter and video magazine resumed publication. The subtitle "Magazine for Second and Other Culture" appeared from the seventh volume onwards.

On the vons.cz page, you can find the complete digitized version of Vokno, including all fourteen samizdat volumes. The originals are stored at the library Libri prohibiti.

Location

Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
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Languages

Czech

Website

http://www.vons.cz/vokno

Creator

Stárek, František

Author(s) of this page

Vrtálková, Anna

References

Časopis VOKNO má internetovou podobu: vons.cz — Události — iVysílání — Česká televize. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1097181328-udalosti/208411000101205/obsah/66159-casopis-vokno-ma-internetovou-podobu-vons-cz

Samizdatové Vokno je kompletně dostupné na internetu — ČT24 — Česká televize. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/1431090-samizdatove-vokno-je-kompletne-dostupne-na-internetu

Vokno, legenda pro Androuše. Hospodářské noviny (IHNED.cz). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-30690370-vokno-legenda-pro-androuse

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