Doctor, advise, my son is free-minded!
Petr Tomíšek was born on July 29, 1953 in Prague into a working class family. In high school, he met a group of people who professed underground culture. After a well-known political trial with The Plastic People of the Universe, he became acquainted with the narrowest core of dissent. He helped with the distribution of samizdat publications, participated in alternative culture events, played in an underground band. In 1979, he signed Charter 77, for which he was immediately expelled from university. A year later, he was arrested and sentenced to nine months in prison under the pretext of spreading drugs, most of which he spent in custody in Prague‘s Ruzyně. After returning from prison, he had various manual occupations and started a family, but was still persecuted. The secret police repeatedly tried to get him to cooperate - without success. In the late 1980s, he became involved in the Civil Liberties Movement. After the revolution, he worked briefly in communal politics, later becoming an editor and publishing his own magazine.