Vlasta Chramostová

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Vlasta Chramostová (born November 17, 1926 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ; † October 6, 2019 in Prague , Czech Republic ) was a Czech actress .

Vlasta Chramostová (2010)

Life

Vlasta Chramostová was the oldest of five children. Her father was the electrical engineer Vladimír Chramost. Vlasta Chramostová grew up in Skryje near Rouchovany . The village of Skryje was relocated and abandoned in 1976 for the construction of the Dukovany nuclear power plant . Vlasta Chramostová studied from 1941 to 1945 with Rudolf Walter and Zdeňek Gräfov at the State Conservatory in Brno.

While still a student, she performed at the Kammerspiele Brno from 1943. When the theater in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia closed in 1944, she took part in performances in private homes. After the liberation she played at the Moravian Theater in Olomouc in 1945 and 1946 and at the National Theater in Brno from 1946 to 1950 . She then performed in Prague at the Divadlo na Vinohradech for 20 years . From 1949 to 1969 she also starred in 25 films and television series.

In 1968 the military crushing of the Prague Spring took place by the troops of the Soviet Union , Poland , Hungary and Bulgaria . In the repressive measures that followed, the freedom of the arts was severely restricted.

In 1969 Vlasta Chramostová was banned from appearing in front of the camera and from 1972 onwards all artistic activities. In 1977 she was one of the first to sign Charter 77 . From 1976 to 1980 she ran a residential theater in which plays were performed in private apartments. In January 1989 she took part in a memorial service for Jan Palach and was sentenced to imprisonment for it.

After the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, Vlasta Chramostová was made an honorary member of the Národní divadlo in Prague. She then performed there in many roles until she ended her professional career at her own request in 2010. She also starred in various television films.

Awards

Vlasta Chramostová was nominated for the Czech film prize Český lev in 1998 for her role in The Bastard Must Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala) as best leading actress and in 1999 for the role in Kuře melancholik as best supporting actress. In 1989 she received the Paul Lauritzen Freedom Award in recognition of her efforts to uphold human rights in Czechoslovakia. In 1998, its president awarded Václav Havel the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order, 3rd class. In 2003 she received the Czech Film and Television Academy Award for her role in the TV film PF 77. In 2007 she received the Thalia Award (Cena Thálie) from the Czech Actors' Union (Herecká asociace) for her lifelong contribution to the theater.

Private life

In 1950 Vlasta Chramostová married her first husband Bohumil Pavlinec, an editor at the Czechoslovak Radio in Brno. Her best man was Otto Šling , who was sentenced to death and executed two years later in the Stalinist Slansky trial . After her divorce from Pavlinec, she lived with the Brno sculptor Konrad Babraj. With him she had a son, who was killed in a car accident when he was four years old. In 1971 she married the cameraman Stanislav Milot and lived with him until his death in January 2019.

Relations with the secret service

From 1962 to 1968 Vlasta Chramostová was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . She also worked for the State Security of Czechoslovakia (Státní bezpečnost, StB) in her youth . In her memoirs, which she later wrote down, she characterized this as stupidity and sin that she found hard to bear and that she had to do well all her life.

Works

Vlasta Chramostová wrote her memoir . These were published in two volumes in 1999 and 2018:

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theatre

Movie

  • 1949: The Great Opportunity (Velká příležitost)
  • 1950: Past - Director: Martin Frič
  • 1955: Rudá záře nad Kladnem - Director: Josef Mach
  • 1963: When the Hangover Comes (Až přijde kocour) - Director: Vojtěch Jasný
  • 1965: Bílá paní - directed by Zdeněk Podskalský
  • 1968: Objížďka - Director: Josef Mach
  • 1968: The Incinerator (Spalovač mrtvol) - Director: Juraj Herz
  • 1997: The Bastard Must Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala) - Director: Vladimír Michálek
  • 1999: Kuře melancholik - director: Jaroslav Brabec
  • 2003: PF 77 - directed by Jaroslav Brabec
  • 2005: Paralelní portrét - directed by Jaroslav Brabec
  • 2011: Odcházení - Director: Václav Havel

Web links

Commons : Vlasta Chramostová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Zemřela Vlasta Chramostová at divadelni-noviny.cz. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Vlasta Chramostová, biography at narodni-divadlo.cz. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d Vlasta Chramostová, Životopis (biography) at fdb.cz. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Chramostová: Život je nepřekonatelný dramatik at respekt.cz. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Chramostová, Vlasta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2019
Place of death Prague