Boris Hybner

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Boris Hybner with a red cap, seated, in 2009
Boris Hybner 2009

Boris Hybner (born August 5, 1941 in Vyškov ; † April 2, 2016 in Prague ) was a Czech pantomime, actor, dramaturge, director, playwright and pedagogue. Together with his partner Ctibor Turba , Boris Hybner was one of the most important representatives of modern Czech pantomime.

Life

After graduating from high school, Hybner began to work in a chemical factory in Litvínov , and also studied at the agricultural secondary school and the Pedagogical Institute in Zlín (then Gottwaldov), where he founded the “Reflektor” ensemble. Hybner was close to the so-called beatniks and the beat generation , oriented himself to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (whom he is said to have met during his visit to Prague in 1965), read Alfred Jarry , Dadaists, surrealists. Like many of his role models, he also made experiences with LSD , which was sold from 1962 to 1974 under the brand name Lysergamide was manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Spofa in the ČSSR.

His first appearance as a mime in the Divadlo Na zábradlí theater in Prague was in 1964 . In 1966 Hybner founded the Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho ensemble , also in Prague, together with Ctibor Turba , with which he won first prize at the 1st Mime Festival in Litvínov. He continued his pantomime activity in 1978 when he founded the Gag ensemble , which he revived in Prague in 1990.

In the 1980s he achieved great success with the trilogy Zahrada jménem Hollywood (garden called Hollywood) in the Netherlands, which he later edited as the television version Gagman and for which he received a prize at the Rose d'Or in Montreux . Later he headed the department for non-verbal theater at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague , where he had been a professor since 2008.

Productions (selection)

  • harakiri
  • idiot
  • Na konci zahrady jménem Hollywood
  • Concerto Grosso
  • Mim session
  • Gagman

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Údolie vecných karaván (listed as B. Hübner)
  • 1969: Bludiště moci
  • 1970: Harakiri
  • 1979: The Cat Prince ( Kocicí princ ; listed as Boris Hübner)
  • 1980: Julek
  • 1983: Jára Cimrman ležící, spící
  • 1983: Cuddle nests (Pelíšky)
  • 1987: Gagman (TV series, screenplay, and story)
  • 2006: Poslední vlak
  • 2009: Peklo s princeznou
  • 2016: Prístav (TV series, 20 episodes)

Web links

  • Boris Hybner , material from ČSFD, Czech-Slovak film database, online at: csfd.cz / ... , filmography, productions, directing, etc.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zemřel český mim, herec a pedagog Boris Hybner. In: lidovky.cz. MAFRA, as, April 2, 2016, accessed April 2, 2016 (Czech).
  2. ^ František Pokorný: Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho , in: Divadlo 1969/20, p. 50, quoted. according to: Karolina Plicková, Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (diploma thesis at the Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty), p. 31 f, online at: is.cuni.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Pavla Kremena: LSD made in Czechoslovakia , documentary of Czech Television from, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Boris Hybner , curriculum vitae on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (ČSFD, Czech-Slovak film database), online at: csfd.cz / ...
  5. ↑ a b Pantomima spáchala Harakiri , in: divadelni noviny 21/2009, online at: host.divadlo.cz / ... ( Memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Karolina Plicková, Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (diploma thesis at the Charles University Prague, Philosophical Faculty), online at: is.cuni.cz / ...
personal data
SURNAME Hybner, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huebner, Boris; Huebner, B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech mime artist, actor, dramaturge, director, playwright and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyškov , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2016
Place of death Prague , Czech Republic