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Námestie slobody 1
813 70 Bratislava
Tel.: +421 2 572 95 318 , 322
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E-mail: vicepremier@vlada.gov.sk
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+421 2 57295 186
Námestie slobody 1
813 70 Bratislava
Tel.: +421 2 572 95 318 , 322
Fax: +421 2 524 91 647
E-mail: vicepremier@vlada.gov.sk
Contact for media:
+421 2 57295 186
Biography
Rudolf Chmel
Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities
Date of birth: 11. 2. 1939
Place of birth: Plzeň
Permanent address: Bratislava
Marital status: married, 4 children
Education:
1952-1956
Secondary school
1956-1961
Graduated in Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
PhDr. (1968), DrSc. (1992), Doc. (1992)
Employment History:
from 1961
researcher of the Literary Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
1982-1989
secretary of the Association of Czechoslovak Writers
1988-1989
Editor in chief of the literary journal Slovenské pohľady
1989-1990
director of the Institute of Literary Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
1990-1992
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic´s ambassador to Hungary
1993-1997
Head of the department of the Hungarian Language and Literature at Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
1993-1998
Spokesperson of the Forum of Slovak Intellectuals, Editor in chief of Stredoeurópske noviny, supplement of daily newspapers SME, Gazeta Wyborcza, Lidové noviny, Magyar Hírlap, resp. Népszava
1993-2000 prezident
president of the Open Society Foundation
1994-2002
director of Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague
from 1997
Head of Editor´s Council of OS journal (from 2007 editor in chief)
2002-2005
Minister of Culture
2005-2006
Minister of Culture
2005-2006
Member of the Slovak Parliament
from 2006
director of Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague
from 2009
deputy chairman of Most-Híd party
from 2010
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Rights and National Minorities
Publications:
Literatúry v kontaktoch /1972/
Kritika a kontinuita /1975/
Dejiny v dejinách /1981/
Sondy /1983/
Paralely a konfrontácie /1986/
Dejiny slovenskej literárnej kritiky /1991/
Moja maďarská otázka /1996/
Moje slovenské pochybnosti /2004/
Romantizmus v globalizme /2009/
Slovenský komplex /2010/
Editing works of Ľ. Štúr, J. M. Hurban, M. Dohnány, M. Pišút, A. Matuška, also anthologys „Literárne vzťahy slovensko-maďarské“, „Slovenská otázka v 20. storočí“, published more than two hundred studies in Slovakia and abroad.
Laureate of Hungarian state award „Minority prize“ (1996), Ľudovít Štúr “Golden Medal“ award of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1999), prize of the foreign ministers of Slovakia and Hungary for „Understanding and good neighbourliness“ (2009).