Jiří Jun

“Well and of course, when I got to the applied arts school then and these anabasis ended, as I was not a good porcelain painter, I did not enjoy that and was preparing myself to the studies. And when I got to the school, it was a wonderful world, as we did not have to call our professors ‚comrade‘. That was the time when the teacher became comrade and no one could address him or her otherwise. And for us it was still Mr. and Ms. professor. And so I finished studies. But get ready for the fatal blast, as they say everything bad is worthwhile for something else and back then I realised it was rather bit truth. The fatal blast as I was in the last year of school in 1962 and I walked in the hallway, the director walked from the other side and passing me he just commented: ‚You should not even apply to high school. If I had known, you would not even finished here.‘ I got startled and asked: ‚But why, when I am one of the best here and should not apply to study further?‘ Well and that was the past, my father was an entrepreneur, my sister emigrated and I did not join the Youth association. And all together meant I was banned to study high school tough I was the best in the atelier.”

"I remember they came to me once to sign the Anti-Charter. And I asked: ´What kind of Anti-Charter?´And they said: ´Well you sign our Anti-Charter.´´And you know what, I will sign it if you give me the Charter to read. I don´t know what it is. And so they left again."