Pavel Landovský
Pavel Landovský ( born September 11, 1936 in Německý Brod) is a Czech actor, playwright and director.
Landovský studied at the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( DAMU ) and then played at regional theaters in Teplice, Olomouc, Klatovy and Pardubice. From 1965 he was then an ensemble member of the Prague theater Činoherní club in the Ve Smečkách close to Wenceslas Square, which had been founded in the same year by Ladislav Smoček and Jaroslav Vostrý. His first play Hodinový hotelier he wrote specifically for the Činoherní; it was premiered there on 11 May 1969, directed by Evald Schorm.
In 1971 he received game ban for film and television; his scenes in Jaroslav Dudek's television series Taková normální rodinka (1971 ) were then cut out and re-shot with Jaroslav Moučka.
The end of 1976 was one of the initiators of the petition Landovský Charter 77 and was led by Václav Havel and Ludvik Vaculik one of the official spokesman of the resulting civil rights movement. He was then assigned for the theater with stage ban and emigrated to Austria, where he led the 1978 ensemble member of the Burgtheater in Vienna and was participated among others in productions by Peter Zadek. Only after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 he was able to return to Prague and occur in January 1990 again in Činoherní club, as there the 16 years previously written piece of his Audience ( recently elected president ) friend Václav Havel, directed by Jiří Menzel its Czech premiere could celebrate.