František Miska

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František Miska (born on August 27, 1919 in Prague ; died on February 11, 2017 there ) was a Czechoslovakian theater and film actor , theater director and theater director.

Life

While still studying at the Prague Business School, Miska founded the amateur theater troupe “Young People” with Pavel Tigrid, Jiří Orten and Josef Schwarz. Shortly after the smashing of the rest of Czech Republic and the occupation of the country by the Wehrmacht in March 1939, Miska was caught holding anti-Nazi posters in his hands and was then taken to the notorious Pankrác prison for a good five and a half months . In the autumn of 1941 the occupying forces called the young Jew into a so-called reconstruction command, and on December 4 of the same year Miska was transferred to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There he was involved in several theater activities and worked with young mimes Gustav Schorsch , who was almost the same age . On September 28, 1944 he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp . When this extermination camp was "evacuated" at the beginning of 1945, German agencies moved Miska to the Bolkenheim and Buchenwald concentration camps . After the liberation in April 1945, he returned to Prague.

Miska's first post-war season as an actor in 1945/46 took him to the municipal theater in Kladno. Back at home in Prague, he found an engagement at the Realistic Theater in 1947 (until 1950) and was now offered supporting roles in films. Nevertheless, the stage remained Miska's main field of activity, and he was a member of the Prague City Theater ensemble for three and a half decades (until 1985), only interrupted by his foreign assignments from 1968. Since the mid-1960s, Miska's work has concentrated on theater management, but the crackdown on the Prague Spring ended by the troops of the Warsaw Pact in August 1968 suddenly his artistic work in his home country. Miska returned from a vacation in Yugoslavia with his family, the actress Ludmila Píchová (1923–2009) and their daughter Michaela Mišková, who was born in 1949, but settled in the Federal Republic of Germany .

There he subsequently worked as a theater director or director at venues in Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Münster, Switzerland and, most recently, from 1983 to 1996, at the Baden-Baden City Theater. Only in 1996 did František Miska return to the now post-communist Czech Republic and was appointed director and artistic director of the Antonín Dvořák Theater in Příbram until 1999 . He also founded and sponsored the First Prague Student Theater together with his wife Ludmila Pichová. Miska died very old at the beginning of 2017 in his hometown of Prague.

Movies

as an actor, unless otherwise stated

  • 1946: Muži bez křídel Nadlidé
  • 1947 musician
  • 1947: Nikola Šuhaj
  • 1950: New fighters are resurrected (Vstanou noví bojovníci)
  • 1951: Mordová rokle
  • 1952: The kidnapping (Únos)
  • 1954: Pane vrchní, platit!
  • 1956: Platit, prosím!
  • 1956: Zaostřit, prosím!
  • 1959: Where the devil couldn't go (Kam čert nemůže)
  • 1959: At the end of the road (Konec cesty)
  • 1959: Friends by the Sea (Poteryannaya fotografiya)
  • 1960: Smyk - towards the abyss (Benátská vdovička)
  • 1963: On the rope (Na laně)
  • 1965: Vajshoblhák a státní tajemství
  • 1965: Crimes in the girls' school (Zločin v dívčí škole)
  • 1967: Inzerát
  • 1967: Jak se krade milión
  • 1970: The Triumph of Death or The Great Massacre Game (German TV film, co-director of the stage adaptation)

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personal data
SURNAME Miska, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak actor, stage director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2017
Place of death Prague