Abstract
Lecture will briefly introduce Jan Procházka, author, reform communist and later the important representative of Prague Spring /Pražské jaro) in 1968. Jan Procházka was an author of scriptwriting templates of progressive movies of czechoslovak filmography in 1960s, he has also act as a head of the one of creative groups of Barrandov film studios.
Since 1968 he has act as a vice-chairman of the Union of Czechoslovak writers. At the begining of 60s he has been the writer with close contacts to the first secretary of Czechoslovak communist party (KSČ) and president Antonín Novotný, then the communists party office-bearer (member of the ideological commision and candidate of Central Committee, ÚV KSČ) but later the reforming communist.
He has acted in the role of engaged speaker, journalist and he was one of the iconics representative of 1968. After 1969 he was the victim of the early normalization media discriminatory campaign.
Culture will be presented as proreformist and critical. Especially on example of his critical re-evaluations of the past - specifically demytizative reflections of the end of the Second World War (Ať žije republika, Kočár do Vídně) and Stalinist era (Noc nevěsty, Ucho).
In this sense culture will is being viewed as a factor contributing the historical arguments for a political reform project. The presentation therefore aims not only to interpret the relativistic reflection of the traumatic past, but rather to concretize it as an influential politician and "contemporary" actor.