I voted for something I had no interest in. And then I realized I couldn’t go on like this.
Libor Hörbe was born in Turnov on 27 January 1964 and grew up in Mnichovo Hradiště. Both his parents Osvald and Alena Hörbe worked in the local branch of LIAZ. His father came from the village of Dolní Krupá, where a large German community lived before the war. Several of his relatives married German partners and were deported with them after the war, so the family had contacts in the West. Normalization did not affect the Hörbe family significantly. Libor Hörbe lived a normal childhood with walks in the countryside, and at the age of twelve he fell for playing the guitar. He completed the grammar school in Mnichovo Hradiště and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, graduating in 1987. After a year’s military service in Janovice nad Úhlavou, he worked as an electrical designer at LIAZ in Mnichovo Hradiště, but he became frustrated working in a dysfunctional socialist enterprise. In November 1989, he became actively involved at the workplace and in the town’s Civic Forum. He left LIAZ in the late 1990s and now (2024) works as the head of development at Proseat in Mladá Boleslav. He continues to pursue music, and has written two novels and one collection of short stories.