Ivan Stodola Explained

Ivan Stodola (10 March 1888 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš – 26 March 1977 in Piešťany) was Slovak dramatist and writer.

Biography

He was born in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš into a family of professional tanners and teachers. He was educated in his hometown, Prešov and Kežmarok, and later, he studied medicine at college in Budapest and Berlin, earning a degree in 1912. He started as a doctor in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, and during World War I he also worked as a wartime doctor. After the war, he returned to his hometown, and became an editor of magazine Boj o zdravie (Struggle for Health). In 1933, he became a regional health inspector and in 1938 - 1939 worked at the Ministry of Health in Prague. In 1946 he earned a degree of lecturer of social pathology. In 1951 while he was working in Bratislava, he was illegitimately sentenced and incarcerated for eight years, but he was freed on amnesty two years later. Since 1954, he lived in Piešťany as a pensioner. In 1967, he earned a title of national artist. He died at the age of 89 on 26 March 1977 in Piešťany. He is now interred in the National Cemetery in Martin.

Works

Comedies

1925 - Žarty (book form published in 1926)
1925 - Daňové pokonávanie (book form published in 1926)
1926 - Náš pán minister
1929 - Čaj u pána senátora
1931 - Jožko Púčik a jeho kariéra
1933 - Cigánča
1941 - Keď jubilant plače
1943 - Mravci a svrčkovia
1944 - Komédia

Tragedies

1928 - Bačova žena

Historical and romantic plays

1931 - Kráľ Svätopluk
1938 - Veľkomožní páni
1941 - Marína Havranová (book form published in 1942)
1946 - Básnik a smrť (it was later reworked and published in 1974 under name Zahučali hory)
1948 - Ján Pankrác
1958 - Pre sto toliarov

Other dramatical works

1928 - Belasý encián (book form published in 1931)
1930 - Posledná symfónia
1935 - Bankinghouse Khuvich and Comp.

Memoir and autobiographical works

1947 - Bolo, ako bolo
1968 - Náš strýko Aurel
1969 - Smutné časy, smutný dom
1972 - Z každého rožka troška
1977 - V šľapajach Hippokrata