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Otokar Fischer
Otokar Fischer (20 May 1883 – 12 March 1938) was a Czech translator, playwright, poet and critic.
He was born in Kolín, Czech Republic. His family originally were of German minority ethnics in Kolin which had been assimilated into Czech people by intermarried.
He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague.
Died of a heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler
, Václav Černý, Otokar Fischer contributed to Přítomnost. Politician and publisher Jaroslav Stránský was the magazine's publisher.
After the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Peroutka was deported to a concentration camp in Buchenwald. After the War, "Přítomnost" was restarted as "Dnešek", but in February 1948 it ended. A number of young Czech intellectuals in exile tried to publish the magazine in its former incarnation and named it "Skutečnost". Amongst the contributors to this magazine were Pavel Tigrid, Jaroslav Stránský, Meda Mládková and