Jitka Frantová Pelikánová

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jitka Frantová Pelikánová (born May 1, 1932 in Malhostovice , Czech Republic ; † April 20, 2020 in Rome , Italy ) was a Czech-Italian actress . She was married to Jiří Pelikán .

Life

Jitka Frantová graduated from high school in Brno . Afterwards she studied singing, dance and pantomime at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Brno . Vlasta Chramostová was one of her teachers . Already during her studies she performed in the National Theater in Brno and on Radio Brno. A scholarship enabled her to study in France with Jean Vilar and Gérard Philipe .

After completing her studies, she worked at the theater in Uherské Hradiště from 1952 to 1953 and from 1953 to 1959 at the Kolín City Theater . From 1959 to 1968 she played various leading roles in the Rococo Theater in Prague . She also had roles in film and television. In 1960 she played Aunt Boženka in the television series Robot Emil and the subsequent series Tale of Aunt Boženka. On the radio she had her own humorous series From the diary of a girl Barborka .

Jitka Frantová's husband was the director, politician and activist Jiří Pelikán . He was one of the main actors in the thaw period and the Prague Spring . In 1968 the military crushing of the Prague Spring took place by the troops of the Soviet Union , Poland , Hungary and Bulgaria . During the repressive measures that followed, Jitka Frantová lost her job at the Rococo Theater and had to leave the house within an hour. She then had a short engagement at the music theater in Prague until 1969. Then a ban on all artistic activity was imposed on them. She then followed her husband to Italy in 1969, where the couple applied for political asylum in the same year. Both received Italian citizenship.

In 1972 Jitka Frantová was sentenced to three years in prison by the communist rulers in Prague in absentia.

Jitka Frantová had very good language skills in German, Italian and French. As a result, she quickly got theater, film, television and radio roles in Germany, Austria and Italy. She played the leading role in Karel Čapek's play The Makropulos Case in Vienna . In Italy she played in Luigi Pirandellos Six people are looking for an author Madame Pace. She played Maria in Giorgio Albertazzi's TV film Gli angeli del potere , 1988. In 1996 she appeared in the Czech television series Konec velkých prázdnin (German: The end of the big vacation) based on a work by Pavel Kohout . In 2008 she performed her self-written piece My Prague Spring in Brno and Prague.

In 2015 she was awarded the Czech Medal of Merit by Miloš Zeman .

Relations with the secret service

The archives of the State Security of Czechoslovakia (Státní bezpečnost, StB) show that Jitka Frantová had been an agent there since 1961 under the pseudonym Barbora and later Helena . Their registration number was 11966, the archive number 811065, Z-136. In 1961 and 1962 she provided extensive and detailed reports on her colleagues at various theaters, including their private lives. In return, the State Security made it possible for her to travel to western countries.

When Jitka Frantová declared in 1962 that he wanted to marry Jiří Pelikán, the State Security stopped working with her. The State Security was prohibited from working with nomenklaturakadern and members of the National Assembly and their spouses. In 1965, 1967, 1968 there were still short collaborations. In 1973 she was listed in the files of the State Security as an emigrant. In 1976 she was re-registered as an agent under the code name Bába . The file on this was destroyed in 1989.

Jitka Frantová's husband, Jiří Pelikán, told friends that he did not know that his wife was a State Security agent.

When asked about these things in 2015, Jitka Frantová dismissed it all as a fairy tale made up by the State Security.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Zemřela Jitka Frantová Pelikánová at divadelni-noviny.cz. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ actress Frantová Pelikánová died (German) at radio.cz. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Svazek jako pohádkový pramen? at ustrcr.cz. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Frantová Pelikánová, Jitka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Malhostovice
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2020
Place of death Rome