Ivan Martin Jirous

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Known for

• Sinister Assistant — Office Worker2023
• Olga — Self2014
• Rok bez Magora — Himself (archive footage)2013
• Citizen Havel Rolls Another Barrel — Self2009
• 13. komnata2006
• The Plastic People of the Universe — Self2001
• Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)2000
• Mordochór — Self1999
• What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government — Self1996
• New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood — Self1992

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Czechia

Active from

1944-09-23

Active to

2011-11-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

235

Total plays

1,359

Ivan Martin Jirous (born September 23, 1944) is a Czech poet, best known for being the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe and later one of organizers of Czech underground during the communist regime. He is also known more frequently as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "loony" or "blockhead" and is supposedly derived from "phantasmagoria", author of this nickname is "experimental" poet Eugen Brikcius. His wife, Věra Jirousová, wrote a

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Martin

Gender

male

Citizenship

Czech Republic

Place of birth

Humpolec

Place of death

Prague

Occupation

opinion journalist

Languages spoken

Czech

Religion

Catholic Church

Field of work

opinion journalism

Image

Ivan M Jirous2.jpg

Significant event

mass for the dead

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