Poet, lyricist, musician and artist Pavel Zajíček died. In the 1970s, he was one of the most important figures of Czechoslovak independent culture. Together with the musician Mejla Hlavsa, he founded the legendary music group DG 307, in which he worked as a lyricist and frontman. Zajíček, who was the author of approximately two dozen poetry collections and hundreds of song lyrics, died today at the age of 72 in Prague. His daughter Michaela Zajíčková announced it.
Pavel Zajíček, born in Prague, was one of the most important representatives of the Czech underground. In 1976, the communist regime arrested him together with the members of the band The Plastic People of the Universe and imprisoned him for a year.
After his release, Zajíček signed Charter 77 and subsequently became one of the targets of the Asanace action, the aim of which was to force inconvenient people to emigrate. In 1980, Zajíček went first to Sweden, and later to the USA. From 1995 he lived again in Prague.
In the 1990s, Zajíček with DG 307 released the albums Artificially flavored, Book written by Chaos or Whispers and screams. His texts were published in samizdat or in exile magazines, in anthologies, after the Velvet Revolution they were also published in books, as well as the poetry collection Kniha měst. He played small roles in the films Knoflíkári directed by Petr Zelenka or …and it will be worse by Petr Nikolaev. In October 2023, he was granted honorary citizenship of the capital city of Prague.
