Ladislav Fialka

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Ladislav Fialka around 1983

Ladislav Fialka (born September 22, 1931 in Prague ; † February 22, 1991 ibid) was a Czechoslovak mime artist , actor , choreographer , theater director and professor .

Life

Fialka was a trained ballet dancer. During his studies (1952 to 1956) at the Prague State Conservatory , he founded his first pantomime group in 1953. On August 1, 1956, the Czech public saw a pantomime performance for the first time in Prague: the first graduates of the dance department of the Conservatory performed their final thesis, Evening of the Three Mimes .

The modern Czech pantomime has existed since 1959, when Ladislav Fialka with a mime group at the Prague Theater Theater on the Balustrade moved (the idea was Pantomima Na zábradlí - Mime the railing ), which thus became one of the centers of the Czech pantomime, with pantomime and theater coexisted side by side. Since then he has been giving programs there, and Fialka has also worked for film and television, created choreographies for the drama theater and made guest tours to many countries on all continents. In 1969 he founded the first international pantomime meeting in Prague (the fourth in total after Berlin, Zurich and the Essener von Soubeyran ), in which Marcel Marceau , Dimitri , René Quellet and Samy Molcho took part.

Fialka died unexpectedly of heart failure.

Services

Fialka is just as advanced for modern pantomime as Marcel Marceau, for example, both of whom drew from the rich fund of classical pantomime. While Marceau preferred the solo pantomime, Fialka and Tomaszewski worked with larger ensembles and integrated elements of the dance. With his work he gave back its fame to a theater genre that was neglected in Czechoslovakia at the time . Fialka was almost always the host and player at the same time, appearing as Pierrot with white make-up . He gave numerous guest appearances abroad.

Prizes and awards

  • Winner of the State Prize
  • Professor at the Prague Academy of Arts

Performances

  • 1960: Nine hats in Prague
  • 1960: Studies
  • 1962: the way
  • 1965: fools
  • 1968: The button
  • 1971: Caprichos (after Goya )

Choreographies for the theater

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: Sen noci svatojanské (director: Jiří Trnka ; choreography)
  • 1960: Young Ramps
  • 1960: The shipwrecked
  • 1960: the poet
  • 1961: Kolik slov stačí lásce (Director: Jiří Sequens ; actor)
  • 1963: Malé hry und Koncert (Director: Vladimír Sís ; actor)
  • 1963: Az prijde kocour ( When the hangover comes and others) (Director: Vojtěch Jasný ; actor)
  • 1964: Behind the Stars
  • 1964: Muzeum zázraků ( Museum of Miracles ) (Directors: Vladimír Sís, Rudolf Jaroš ; actors)
  • 1968: Studies
  • 1973: Traumstadt (director: Johannes Schaaf ; choreography)
  • 1979: Koncert na konci léta (director: František Vláčil ; author)
  • 1980: Concert (Director: Jan Schmidt ; Author)
  • 1983: Putování Jana Amose ( The Wanderings of Jan Amos / My Whole Life Was Wandering ) (Director: Otakar Vávra ; Choreographer and Actor)
  • 1984: Komediant (Director: Otakar Vávra)
  • 1986: A long, quiet path (with Samy Molcho , Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault ; actors)

literature

  • Brochure: Theater "Am Geländer" Prague Old Town. Founded in 1454. Renewed in 1958, Ladislav Fialka and his ensemble perform “Nine Hats in Prague” and “Etudes” . Divadlo na Zabradli, Prague 1962.
  • Ladislav Fialka and his pantomime group . Theater am Geländer, Prague 1967.
  • Bari Rolfe: The Prague Mime Festival . In: Educational Theater Journal . Vol. 22, No. 1 (March 1970), pp. 87-90
  • Horst Schumacher: Fialka, Ladislav . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 201

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dream City at filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Fialka, Ladislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actor, mime artist and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1991
Place of death Prague