Jiří Voskovec

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Jiri Voskovec (left) in 1926 with Božena Svobodová in the Czech silent film Pohadka maje

Jiří Voskovec (born June 19, 1905 in Sasau , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † July 4, 1981 in Pearblossom , California ; real name Jiří Wachsmann , later George Voskovec ) was a Czech actor and writer .

Life

Voskovec, as the bohemian form of his name is, studied in Prague and Dijon . In 1925, together with Jan Werich , he founded the Osvobozené divadlo , an avant-garde theater that used comic means to deal with political and social problems. Together with Werich, he formed a team of authors that became legendary under the acronym V&W. Since the Osvobozené divadlo was explicitly anti-fascist, Voskovec, Werich and the conductor Jaroslav Ježek had to close the theater as a result of the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938 and fled to the United States in January 1939 . After the war in 1946, Voskovec only returned briefly to Czechoslovakia . He then lived in France for two years and then went back to the United States. There he was interned on Ellis Island for eleven months on suspicion of communist sympathies .

Voskovec lived under the name George Voskovec in New York City , where he played on Broadway . In addition, he was often cast in feature films as a European foreigner. One of his most famous film roles is that of jury number 11 (in German dubbing a Swiss, spoken by Bernhard Wicki ) in the judicial drama The Twelve Jurors . He worked as an actor until his death. He has acted in a total of around 75 films, the first of which were shot in Europe as early as 1926.

Voskovec had his first marriage until 1945 with Madelaine Main, in the year of the divorce he married Anne Gerlette, with whom he had adopted two daughters. The marriage lasted until Anne's death in 1958. In 1961 he married Christine McKeown, with whom he was married until his death. He is buried in the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

His great grandfather was Adolf Maria Pinkas . The asteroid (2418) Voskovec-Werich was named after him and Jan Werich.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jiří Voskovec  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adriena Borovičková, Voskovec & Wachsmanni. Z rodinné kroniky a dopisů., Bookmann 2005, ISBN 80-903455-2-2
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0903667/bio
  3. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 10, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1971 UV. Discovered 1971 Oct. 26 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf. "
personal data
SURNAME Voskovec, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachsmann, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Sázava , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1981
Place of death Pearblossom , California, United States