Eugen Gindl has died – SME.sk

The journalist died at the age of 77.

BRATISLAVA. Eugen Gindl, a journalist and publicist, died at the age of 77 and was a long-time collaborator of the daily SME.

Gindl was a member of the first VPN Coordinating Committee and the first editor-in-chief of Verejnosť magazine.

Eugen Gindl was born on February 4, 1944 in Bratislava to a medical family. The family moved to Liptovský Mikuláš shortly after his birth, where he spent his childhood and adolescence, according to web Pametnaroda.cz.

“I live in Bratislava, but I consider myself a Mikulášan, a Lipták. I grew up here, here I grew up, here I learned columbian, Liptov Slovak, here I learned to walk in the mountains. To every peak of the” wreath of mountains “around Liptov I he has spoken at least once. To Kriváň eleven times, to Bystrá ten times, ” he talked about himself.

He studied journalism at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University, graduating in 1968 with a thesis on humor and satire.

After the Soviet invasion, he went to study at a university in Berlin for two years and then made a major trip to Asia. Upon his return, his passport was confiscated in Czechoslovakia.

He worked as a reporter for the weekly Život, where his reports were a success, but soon learned that they did not like the publisher and transferred him to the foreign department.

“At the time of normalization, new people came to all the authorities. Censorship was lifted, but self-censorship was even greater. They put people who were paid for it in management positions. And they were much stricter than they should have been. So these reports of mine, although they will seem innocent to you today, seemed to them that they were out of the required form, “Gindla quotes Pametnaroda.cz.

He gradually began working with Czechoslovak Radio, Television and the Koliba film studios. He created several plays, productions and films with progressive themes for them, which also named the shadowy aspects of life in the socialist dictatorship.

Therefore, many of them “safe” and introduced them later. “I wrote fifteen screenplays for feature films. Three of them, (Icelandic Blister, Triptych The Other Side of the Moon and Purgatory of Rusty Hearts), which I consider the best, were not approved for production at the time for political reasons,” he said.

In the eighties, he joined the protectionist movement and participated in the creation of the documentary Bratislava / Aloud. As a member of the VPN Coordination Committee, he was significantly involved in the revolutionary events and the subsequent effort to democratize the media.

After 1990, he became the editor-in-chief of Kozmos magazine, published Central European newspapers and founded OS, an extensive cultural and social monthly.

In recent years, he has been a regular external author of the SME daily. In 2020, he received for the text Is an environmentally fair policy possible? journalistic award.

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