Jaroslav Hutka

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Under the lamp in Pilsen was the largest dark!
When in 1989 sounded the city of Pilsen Namest words from singer-songwriter Jaroslav Hutka, a sort of unofficial anthem of the "Velvet Revolution", a few people at that time thinking about things past. Lyrics beginning "is a beautiful air, beautiful is the sea ..." While knew quite a lot of young, though predominantly from campfires or not official sources. Uncomfortable Mode singer was forced into exile and assumed his zapomněн. The truth, however, was the opposite.
The Chronicles of Plzen reveal that in the spring of 1976, the then rather daring independent Pilsen scene in the theater under the lamp, held several concerts Folk Association of members of Saffron. Member of this group was inconvenient mode in addition to other important songwriters also just Jaroslav Hutka. Like other concerts, and the lamp of the monitor Stb. Employees of the theater waiting for sanctions.
Jaroslav Hutka says:
I think if we were all performed, Merta, Tresnak, Lьtke, Voňkovб and I and some others. Pilsen was then an important place for Saffron, we looked in every major city of the regular scene on which we can rotate and thereby ensure the program one day a week, the day on which people get used to and I do not need publicity. It was succeeded in the Theatre under a lamp.
What was the saffron repertoire and how you approached the Pilsen concerts?
Downright subversive songs we had none, and we considered it as primitive. It was a free thinking and quality, although of course in that tension that the audience enjoyed, everything was somehow politically ambiguous. That I did not resist, it was also fun to experience what people understand and then develop it further. The songs that I played when I play now.
Did you feel under any pressure from the lamp of the State Police or the municipal party and cultural authority?
The problems were the same everywhere, but since the audience was on our side, so it always somehow matured. Of course I was surprised how many links and explanation I found in my estйbбckйm file just below the lamp of the theater, then I often joked that the lamp is dark. But I think it came later, as most performances took place unnoticed by the Bolsheviks.
He pointed out then someone you theater employees who helped especially the saffron?
That I can not remember, no names I did not write a precaution and to be sure everything is argued orally. But mostly it was a man who put it together, but long ago I do not know who.
You knew about that sanction or who and how for the production of saffron has been affected?
At that time I knew nothing about it, and I have to think too much, I also had their problems, interrogation, arrest and occasionally bed in his cell at St. Bartholomew's, you know that problems can be and sometimes were, but not enough to watch it, it was or how. It was about the courage to liberty.
Could you briefly close association Saffron? What was the purpose of his creation?
I put us together in 1972, when we try together, and not every man to better survive and so he did. The worst years of Soviet occupation after we have survived and then later when opposition arose, then it was easier.
Why was the association mode clearly a thorn in the eye?
We were a thorn in their eye because they were a thorn in our eye, and yet who knows where. We all lived through the Russian occupation and the mutilation of the future and hope of freedom, so we tried those Idee in itself to maintain and keep up the Protectorate regime. Therefore, we also had such a wide audience, people initially the occupation was not indifferent.
How was the end of the common speech of the association?
Saffron We disbanded until 1977, when we have some signed Charter 77 and others did not want to pull it, so we started again to play everyone on his own, but it was not such a problem, because the most important route had already been beaten, we had again a young audience and dissidents already at creating a feeling of conscience and the feeling that the anti-Bolshevik can do something. Although most people feared, but the majority does not decide about anything, she crawled and not visible.
When did you decide to stop suffering and harassment caused by the regime to emigrate?
I tried to emigrate to push the cops, then the Communists, since 1976, but in fact it persuaded me to my former wife, who did not want to tolerate it and was afraid that I will long zavřenэ.Ћenskэ to always have a little more rational view. He thinks less political and more practical.
What was the main focus of your creation in 1976?
It's hard to say. I was busy and I sang about everything, sadly and happily, philosophically, and naively romantic. It was kind of a meaningful life with the audience in a gray environment that did not make sense.
What you put in his work focus now?
It is similar, only the company has diversified options sentiment culture. I now have a large group krajinomalebnэch who say Watercolours, then conscience songs, historical songs are funny and then children. I started writing three years ago at the Domaћlice Holэљov and then I went on in France.
What is your relationship to folk music?
The real folk music can be just nice to have a relationship, but many did not survive her, revivalists of the nineteenth century it mostly distorted, somewhat silly poerbenљtili, so we know most of kitsch, which I imagine it was folk music, but it is a mistake.
You will present folk songs during his June concert at the castle Kozel near Pilsen?
At least two ballads'll play, it must be that people have an idea of ​​how they look original songs, but mainly my new songs.
What is your relationship to the West and Bohemia Pilsen? Apparently you have to Domaћlice and their chat.
Yeah, we have twelve years in a small cottage in the village Holэљov, it's beautiful there.
You play like in ancient monuments?
Very. The environment and atmosphere of historic sites can not replace anything, and it's always an experience, not only for the audience, but even for me. Such concerts are one big happy
Do you Kozel and looking forward to the concert in the environment of this castle?
I Kozel not know, but I'm looking forward to it very much, because my friends about it enthusiastically told.
After 1989, many of us, who we had as students jingling keys in Pilsen square, had to wake up from a period of euphoria and deal with some of the disappointment. What do you think? What went wrong?
The error is always about people. Certainly it was mainly a kind of passivity and inexperience expectations miracle, which then gave darebбčkům opportunity to better use. It corrects bad, but nothing else we can do. Life is just one and not worth it to drop due to scams and nafounkancům.
Do you think that in our democracy or rule - he said Karel Kryl - demokratura?
Democracy is here, but still a bit silly after the Czech Republic. Is what we have created it, or let you create faster. Dictatorship is different.
Do you have experience from staying in exile - from abroad? What are the differences between democracy here and there? We can say that somewhere is better or is the claim that "everything is something"?
Everything is just in the people and of course in tradition and in history. Although something is everywhere, but Europe is still the place from which we learn them and be grateful that you took us among themselves, even if we are behaving foolishly and buransky.
Do you believe that we have in the Czech Republic hopes that things sometimes move in a better direction? What is this possibly be done?
It's better each year, but one must not watch much just the political comedy or watch the news on television. It confuses and creates. You need to think independently and separately brandishing around. And if it proves ONU ability to make independent decisions about their lives, so it will improve much faster ..