Comrades, go beat him instead of me, I’m fed up with this
Stáhnout obrázek
MUDr. Vladimír Richard Piskáček was born in 1929 in Pilsen as the only son of his elderly parents. He grew up in Mariánské Lázně. His father was a lawyer who died before the outbreak of WWII, and his mother ran a bookshop. Vladimír describes himself as an intelligent child who had troubles with learning and who felt as an outsider since a very young age. In 1944 when he was fifteen years old he was interrogated and beaten by the Gestapo due to some anti-German signs he made. In 1948 he made an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate. A year later he graduated from secondary school and he began studying medical faculty, from which he graduated in 1956, specializing in psychiatry. In 1958 he emigrated to the United States of America via Turkey. In the USA he studied medicine again and he opened a psychiatric practice in Long Island in New York State. Vladimír spent more than forty years abroad. From his home in New York he often travelled all over the world and as an amateur he was interested in ethnology, cultural and social anthropology and spiritual practices of ‘primitive‘ tribes. In his free time he enjoys painting and photography. From the 1990s he began going back to the Czech Republic. He donated part of his ethnographic collection to Czech museums - to the Náprstek Museum in Prague and the Museum of West Bohemia in Pilsen. At present he lives in Rychnov nad Kněžnou with his wife who is considerably younger than him.
