Jana Štěpánková

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Jana Štěpánková with her granddaughters

Jana Štěpánková (born September 6, 1934 in Žilina , Czechoslovakia ; † December 18, 2018 in Prague , Czech Republic ) was a Czechoslovak actress .

Life

Education and theater

Jana Štěpánková came from a famous Czech family of artists. Her father was the actor Zdeněk Štěpánek , her mother Elena Hálková the granddaughter of the poet Vítězslav Hálek . Her half-sister Kristina Taberyová is a well-known theater director .

At the age of 14 she played theater for the first time. At the summer theater in the Czech summer spa town of Železná Ruda , where the local amateur club put Maxim Gorki's play on summer guests , she took on the role of daughter Polja at her father's side. In the autumn of the same year she began studying at the Žilina Conservatory and later continued her acting studies at the theater faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (Divadelní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze, or DAMU for short) in Prague .

After completing her studies, she started her first theater engagement in 1954 at the East Bohemian Theater (Východočeského divadla Pardubice) in Pardubice , where she stayed with the ensemble for six years. Here she played u. a. Roles like the Maid of Orléans, the Roxane in Cyrano by Bergerac and the title role in Lady Windermeres Fan .

From 1959 to 1972 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the SK Neumann Theater (Divadlo pod Palmovkou) in Prague, where she played classic stage roles such as Eliza Doolittle (in Pygmalion ), Desdemona (in Othello , 1959), Rosalinde (in As You Like It ) , Maria Stuart and as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case (1970).

In 1972 she moved to the theater in the vineyards (Divadle na Vinohradech). She worked there until 2000. In 1976 she was Queen Gertrude in a new production of Hamlet , and in 1988 she was the Iocaste in King Oedipus .

Jana Štěpánková also met her future husband, the theater director Jaroslav Dudek , at the theater . The marriage resulted in a son, Jan. After the death of her husband († 2000), her contract at the Theater in den Weinbergen was not renewed. From then on, Jana Štěpánková mainly devoted herself to various roles in the cinema and on television.

She later returned to the theater. She played for several years at the Divadlo Na Jezerce in Prague. In the 2017/18 season she appeared at the Ungelt Theater in Prague (Divadlo Ungelt) together with František Němec in Felix Mitterer's play The Panther ( Pardal ).

Movie and TV

Jana Štěpánková has been one of the "important personalities" in cinema and television in Czechoslovakia since the 1950s. She has appeared in around 80 cinema and TV productions. In addition to her cinema roles, which included films of all genres from comedy to thriller , she had appearances in numerous Czech television series, where she played mostly continuous and long-term series roles.

In the 1970s, she and her husband made films for Czechoslovak television . Such television works included the television series Alexander Dumas starsi about Alexandre Dumas .

She embodied her best-known role in German-speaking countries in the Czechoslovak TV series Das Krankenhaus am Rand der Stadt as anesthetist Dr. Dana Králová, which she played from 1978 to 1981, and in two further sequels in 2003 and 2008.

Honors and private matters

In September 2009, on the occasion of her 75th birthday, Jana Štěpánková received the gold medal ( Zlatá plaketa ) of the Czech Republic from President Václav Klaus for “her extraordinary artistic contribution to Czech cultural life in the last fifty years” .

Jana Štěpánková died at the age of 84 from complications from pneumonia .

Filmography

  • 1953: Nástup (cinema)
  • 1954: The wedding wasn't yet ( Jeste svatba nebyla, cinema)
  • 1955: The Dogs' Heads ( Psohlavci, Kino)
  • 1958: The Bomb ( Bomba, Kino)
  • 1960: The secret of the powder compact (Zpívající pudrenka)
  • 1963: Tarzanova smrt (cinema)
  • 1964: A crazy family ( Táto, sežeň štěně !, Kino)
  • 1967: The House of Lost Souls ( Dům ztracených duší, cinema)
  • 1970: Alexander Dumas starsi (TV)
  • 1970: Vec Makropulos (theater recording, TV)
  • 1971: Marie Stuartovna (theater recording, TV)
  • 1971–1972: Taková normální rodinka (TV)
  • 1976: Palette of love ( Paleta lásky, cinema)
  • 1978–1981: The hospital on the outskirts of the city (TV)
  • 1979: The tin cavalry ( Plechová kavalérie, TV)
  • 1983: The last train ( Poslední vlak, cinema)
  • 1984: The dream machine ( Bambinot, TV)
  • 1986: Synové a dcery Jakuba skláre (TV)
  • 1988: Ghosts from the skylight ( Strašidla z vikýře, cinema)
  • 1994: Královnina smecka psu (TV)
  • 1998–2005: Ranc U Zelené sedmy (TV)
  • 2003: The hospital on the outskirts of the city - 20 years later (TV)
  • 2008: Nemocnice na kraji mesta - nove osudy (TV)
  • 2015–2016: Doctor Martin (TV)
  • 2017: Kvarteto (cinema)
  • 2018: Doctor Martin: Záhada v Beskydech (cinema)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ACTRESS JANA ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ DIED . Death report on Radio Praha of December 21, 2018. Accessed December 24, 2018
  2. ^ A b The Czech actress Jana Štěpánková died . Death report with photo. Retrieved December 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Jana Štěpánková: První série Nemocnice byla zázrak, ty další už ne Novinky.cz of May 10, 2010. Accessed on December 24, 2018
  4. ↑ Karel Čapek: The Makropulos Case - Jana Štěpánková . Cold cuts on YouTube . Retrieved December 24, 2018
  5. ↑ "Láska dokáže divy. Možná. ”Víc Jana Štěpánková o Pardálovi neprozradí . Preliminary report of November 29, 2017. Accessed December 24, 2018
  6. ^ Nemocnice na kraji města: Hlavní role . Retrieved December 24, 2018.
  7. ^ Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech: Hlavní role . Retrieved December 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ Prezident Predal čestnou Zlatou plaketu Jane Štěpánkové . Official website of Václav Klaus . Retrieved December 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Štěpánková, Jana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Žilina , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2018
Place of death Prague , Czech Republic