Katerina Koehlerova

Reise durch das Leben/ Journey Through Life

BUCHLADEN und CAFÉ YPSILON, Berger Straße 18, D-60316 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

01.09.2010 - 26.09.2010- Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Drawings under the Title: "JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE"( Reise durch das Leben)in Café und Buchladen Ypsilon,(Coffee Bar and a Bookshop "Ypsilon") Berger Strasse 18, 60316 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Private View: 4th September 2010 at 6:30 p.m.

Spoken word by Mrs. Marzieh Taheri- Shad

Two poems in Czech by the Czech Poet Ivan Blatný (1919-1990)and /also in the 2005 German translation/ from the book: "Old Addresses" (Stará Bydliště), written in 1979, will be presented to the audience.

Blatný was declared shortly after 1948 Communist coup as a deserter and a betrayer, pronounced dead on Czechoslovak radio and his poetry was officially banned,.. therefore he lived a great part of his life in the emigration in Great Britain, collaborated on and off with the BBC and Radio Free Europe and spent the years from 1954 to 1990 in various institutions for the mentally ill in London, Claybury Hospital in Essex and also in other institutions in Ipswich while still writing poetry under the encouragement and a help of a nurse from Ipswich Miss Frances Meacham, who collected and stored his manuscripts and later passed them on to, the Czech writer and a publisher in exile, Mr.Josef Škvorecký in his "Sixty Eight Publishers" publishing house in Toronto.

Blatný spent his five last years at Edensor nursing home,in Clacton-on-Sea.