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Petr Michálek was born on September 18, 1966 in Boskovice, grew up with his parents and sister Eva, who was just a year older. During the World War II his father, František Michálek, was involved in the resistance and in 1947 was awarded the title of Czechoslovak partisan. In 1949, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty years of high-treason and espionage in a fabricated trial with another 65 students in the group named “Vomela et al.” After elementary school, Petr Michálek joined the Secondary Agricultural Technical School in Boskovice in 1981. During his student years he visited his favorite author Jaroslav Foglar, and he was able to listen to current radio stations. After graduation he studied preliminary year at the Faculty of Arts, but was not accepted for further study. He spent the next two years with military basic service in Slovakia. In 1989 he signed the petition Several sentences and he and his friend handed over the signature sheet personally to the mail box at the Václav Havel apartment. During the Velvet Revolution, he participated in several demonstrations in Brno, co-founded the Civic Forum in Boskovice, participated in improving posters and preparing the general strike. After the revolution he began studying at the Palacký University in Olomouc in the field of history of dramatic arts and literature, where he also shot feature films with his classmates. He did not finish his studies, but together with his classmates he founded the civic association Laputa and ran an Art Cinema. Until 1998 he worked in the Museum of Boskovice. Since 1993 he has been one of the dramaturges of the Festival for the Jewish Quarter in Boskovice, organized by Unijazz Praha, z.s. In 2002 his son Ondřej was born. Later he had several jobs in various publishing houses. He currently works as a warehouse worker and driver for the Jota Brno publishing house and lives in Veverská Bítýška.
