Jiřina Švorcová
Jirina Švorcová ( born May 25, 1928 in Kociánovice, today Hradec Králové - Slezské Předměstí; † August 8, 2011 in Prague) was a Czechoslovakian actress.
Life
Švorcová came from a working-class and peasant family. After the father's death the family moved to Prague. Švorcová first studied for a career as a teacher, then wrote, however, the example of her brother, the Czech actor Václav Švorc (* 1919), following, for a study acting a. She graduated there at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the Academy of Performing Arts ( Divadelni facultative Academy múzických umění ) in Prague. In 1950, she closed her education with a degree in acting.
Švorcová began her career as a theater actress. In the season 1950/51 she was engaged at the Municipal Theatre of Hradec Králové. In 1951 she became a member of the theater in the vineyards ( Vinohrady ) in Royal Vinohrady. She remained there until 1990, until her retirement from the stage, a permanent member. Švorcová first played the role of the specialist adolescent heroine and youthful lover; later dramatic roles were added in the subject of the heroine. She played on the stage wives, mothers, and later the comic old. Early on, she took on character roles.
Her stage roles included, among others: Princess Eboli in Don Carlos (1955 ), the title role in a stage adaptation of Anna Karenina (1963 ), Fanka in The Robber by Karel Čapek (1972 ), Emilia Marty in Čapek's The Makropulos Case ( Vec Makropulos, 1976), Olga in Three Sisters (1979 ), the title role in mother Courage and Her Children ( 1984), Essie in O wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill ( Oh ta léta bláznivá, 1986) and the Melánie in the world premiere of the play Hlasy Ptáků by Josef Topol (1989).
In 1950 she made her debut in the Czech film. She played the role of the tractor driver Vlasta Tomesova in the romantic comedy The Road to Happiness ( 1951). She took some major roles in Czech film and developed into a good character actress. Her film appearances were made in total, however, rather sporadic; they always just stood in each long intervals before the camera. Mostly, they embodied the type of role the self-confident, modern and integrated into the communist society young woman.
Major film roles were the Stoßbrigadierin Marie in the movie About it convenes (1953 ), daughter and worker Toníčka in the film drama Pricházejí z tmy (1954 ), the saleswoman Marie Rysová in the crime drama King of the Bohemian Forest (1959 ), the physician Marie in the spy movie Smyk ( 1961) by Zbynek Brynych, Magda Muzikárová, the agricultural assistant ( zemědělská instruktorka ) and childhood sweetheart of a veterinarian in the film drama shackles (1961 ) and the writer Bozena Nemcova in the biopic Horoucí srdce (1963).
Her most famous role on Czech television was the role of the seller Anna Holubová in the television series The woman behind the counter (1978). Švorcová played the main role in the series, a saleswoman at a grocery store with shelves full, an embellished idyll of communism after the suppression of the Prague Spring. Švorcová recorded their role in the spirit of communist propaganda.
In the 1970s and 1980s Švorcová was several times President of the Association Performer in Czechoslovakia, 1976, she was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1977, she has made strong for so-called anti- charter. In 1989, after the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia, to Švorcová moved from the activity as an actress back. Also at the Vinohrady had been signaled to her that she was no longer welcome there because of their communist past. In 2000, she published her memoirs under the title byti Švorcovou.
Awards and honors
Švorcová received numerous state awards and medals. She was awarded the Klement Gottwald State Prize (1980). In 1970, she was ( práce rad) the Order of the work awarded. In 1978 she was awarded the Order of the Victorious February (RAD Vítězného února ). In 1984 she became a national artist of Czechoslovakia. In 1975 she was awarded the artist prize of the National Czech Radio.
Political commitment
Švorcová was convinced communist. In 1976 she became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Caused a stir in 1977 their public speech in which she, as " renegades and traitors" described the signatories of Charter 77, including authors such as Vaclav Havel and Pavel Kohout. In an interview in 2010 Švorcová reiterated her former position. You still believe today, that it was wrong, what people like Havel and Kohout did back then.
Even shortly before the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia 1989, she has continued to advocate censorship, repression of political dissidents and artists or their deportation and exit. Even after the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia they gave their loyalty to the communist regime not to. Švorcová was the figurehead and the " mascot" ultra - communist circles. She continued to attend party meetings and recited poems in cultural revolutionary party evenings.
In 1996, she ran unsuccessfully for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( KSČM ) for the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.