In 2004 in Jirásková Hronov. Photo by Ivo Mickal
Jana Urbanová
10/11/1937 Teplice – 4/10/2023
Actress and director of the amateur Krupka Theater Ensemble. One of the last actresses of the children’s theater in the Terezín ghetto, where as a seven-year-old she performed the role of Ladybug in the production of Bugs.
Born Klačerová. She came from a volunteer family. Her father, MD Josef Klacer (1904 – 1973) was a director and for many years led an amateur theater for children and adults in Osek, Teplice theater shows bore his name in the 1970s and 1980s – Memorial dr. Clácera. After 1945, she performed in his productions. This family background influenced her lifelong relationship with amateur theater and artistic performance.
Her first – and probably fateful – meeting with the theater was in the ghetto in Terezín in early 1945, where she played the role of Ladybug in the production of Beetles as a seven-year-old. Here she found herself in the company of well-known artistic personalities, such as Robert Brock, Váva Schönová or Hanuš Thein, who became a lifelong friend of the Klačer family after returning from Terezín. In 1945, in Osek on the border, she played in the first performance for the benefit of the Czech school. In March 1957, she participated in the first year of Wolkrov Prostějova with a presentation of the fairy tale Princess of the Pea (H. Ch. Andersen).
With F. Kraft in Stroupežnického Zvíkovský rarášek (DS Stropník, Osek u Duchova, 1950). Photo archive of Jana Urbanová
After her father’s death in 1973, while she was a teacher in Krupka, she took over his baton. She moved to the file Krupka House of Culture, where she offered her services to director Miroslav Vladyk. After a short time, she began to independently prepare bands of poetry – e.g. Songs of sweet France, Čapka’s apocrypha, letters of B. Němcová, a committee from the work of J. Wolker, Lidice K. Šiktance. Later well-known volunteers Rudolf Rýsl, Jaromír Kejzlar, Václav Vašák and others performed in them. She also helped re-establish the local drama troupe. He was led by Dr. Kejzlar, she was a dramaturg and director.
With F. Kraft in the production of Chekhov’s briefcase Bear by the volunteer association Stropník v Osek (1970). Photo archive of Jana Urbanová
Her drama directorial debut was a production of a dramatization of Jan Očenášek’s novella Romeo, Julie a tma. In the dramaturgical selection of other tutels, socio-critical ones, which were characteristic of the amateur theater of the seventies and eighties, prevailed: Forget Herostratus (Grigorij Gorin), a dramatization of Vladimir Páral’s novel A young man and a white whale ad.
While employed, she completed a two-year distance learning puppetry-pedagogy course at DAMU and completed a two-year directing course at the Czech Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1975 she was a member of the Association of Czech Theater Volunteers (SČDO). In 1980, she became a methodologist for the theater and artistic performance of the Regional Cultural Center in Ústí nad Labem and became a judge at many amateur shows.
Judge of amateur shows (with Jiří Řericha – Josefův Důl, Zdenek Peroutka – Prague and Jiří Staňka – Plumlov, 1979 – 1981). Photo private archive of Jiří Řericha
In 1980, she staged a play by Jan Jílek Playing Otto, which resonated with the martial law situation in Poland at the time. It was the first use of the arena theater form by the Krup ensemble. Another production of Josef Bouček’s play Night of the shepherds was a reflection on the position of the intellectual in society. With a subsequent production of the play by Dale Wasserman Where the cuckoo has its nest about freedom in unfreedom, the Krup ensemble made it not only to the national show in Vysoké nad Jizerou, but also to the boards of the Jirásk Theater in Hronov. An extremely successful production was i The journey of Charles IV. to France and back (Jiří Šotola) with Miroslav Vladyka in the lead role. In 1996, the ensemble of the Krupka House of Culture, directed by Jana Urbanová, presented AP Čechov’s briefcase Courtship a Bear. He not only won an award at the National show in Vysoké nad Jizerou, but also represented our republic at the international show in Holzhausen, Austria. The briefcases were – each individually – a success at the National Show of single-case briefcases in Holice.
As part of the official opening of the 90th Jiráskova Hronova 2020, the Award of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for merits in the field of non-professional theatrical and verbal activities was announced and awarded. From the hands of the Minister of Culture PhDr. Lubomíra Zaorálka was taken over by Jana Urbanová. Photo by Milan Strotzer
Her second artistic love was poetry. She also trained a number of reciters who, under her guidance, participated in national recitation competitions in Prostějov, Valašské Meziříčí and Poděbrady.
She received several awards for her activities in the field of amateur theater. She was the holder of the SČDO Golden Badge. In 2004, she became the bearer of the JK Tyla gold badge /here/. In 2020, she received the Award of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for merits in the field of non-professional theatrical and verbal activities. At the official opening of the 90th Jiráskova Hronova, it was presented to her by the then Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek.
ARTAMA reported on her death on its website /here/.
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