Pavel Pecháček
(*1940) Czech Republic
Contribution to the dialogue of national culture
He was persecutioned by the Communist regime for a long-time. Later, he studied high school where also studied some other cadre loaded students as Václav Havel or Miloš Forman. In sixties, at a certain of liberalization he studied direction at DAMU in Prague. In 1958, he started to cooperate with Czechoslovak Radio as a sports editor, later as a director. After his emigration in 1968, he worked in Munich redaction of Radio Free Europe. From the mid-seventies he worked in Washington redaction of American Voice where he became a director of Czechoslovak department, in 1985. He started to work as a director of Free Europe in Munich before the Velvet Revolution, and later in Prague. Now, he is a counselor of the president of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
