František Salzer (30 August 1902,

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– 23 December 1974,

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) was a

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Theatre Director, Theatre Actor, Film Actor, University Professor and Translator.

Biography

He studied at

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(1920–1924). In the season of 1924/1925 he started his career at Olomouc Theatre as actor and later on as Theatre Director. In 1930 he came to Prague as Theater Director of

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. He stayed at Vinohrady Theatre till the end on the

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. During his time at the Vinohrady Theater, Salzer has directed over 120 plays by world and Czech authors (incl. W. Shakespeare,

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, G. B. Shaw, F. Schiller, Stefan Zweig, Jiří Mahen, J. K. Tyl, Viktor Dyk, V. K. Klicpera, etc.) From 1947 till 1963 he acted as Theatre Director of the

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. During the years of 1941–1945 he was professor of the

. He was one of the founders of the

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(DAMU) together with Jiří Frejka, František Tröster and Josef Träger. Then he was the Dean of this Faculty in three periods (1954–1955, 1958–1961 and 1963–1970) and acted as professor of this Faculty till his death in 1974. Salzer was also translator of theatre plays (e.g.

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: ''Ovečka chudých – Das Lamm des Armen'',

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: ''Tlustý anděl z Rouenu – Boule de suif'', etc. ). His first wife, Eva Adamcová (1895–1972), with whom he has been living for 42 years, was an actress and translator. From August 1923 she was a member of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava.BLAHOVÁ – MARTIŠOVÁ, Elena. ''Súpis repertoáru SND 1920–2010''. Bratislava : SND, 2010

References

Citations

Bibliography

* Vlastimil Blažek: ''Sborník na paměť 125 let Konservatoře hudby v Praze'', Vyšehrad, Praha, 1936, pp. 145, 461, 462, 464, 514 * František Černý: ''Theater – Divadlo'', Orbis, Praha, 1965, pp. 65, 71, 117, 119, 123, 144, 368–370, 378–9, 409 * Kolektiv autorů: ''Dějiny českého divadla/IV.'', Academia, Praha, 1983, pp. 82, 122, 178, 262, 277, 367, 369, 371, 373, 417, 478–9, 484–6, 504, 508, 512, 525, 610, 619, 626, 628, 635, 649, 659, 665–7 * V. Müller a kol.: ''Padesát let Městských divadel pražských 1907–1957'', issued by Ústřední národní výbor hl. m. Prahy, Praha, 1958, pp. 15, 36–8, 61, 100, 106–8, 110, 130–164, 180 * Redakce umělecké správy divadla: ''Čtvrtstoletí Městského divadla na Král. Vinohradech, jubilejní sborník'', issued by Městské divadlo na Král. Vinohradech, Praha, 1932, pp. 21, 34, 44, 56, 89, 116, 135–7 * Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová: '' Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl'', issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Praha, 2007, pp. 45, 50, 55–9, 61–2, 65, 69, 173–9, 193, * Jiří Žák a kol.: '' Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2007 – Vinohradský příběh'', issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Praha, 2007, pp. 157, 164, 188, * Jiří Žák: ''Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2017'', issued by Nakladatelství XYZ, Praha, 2017, pp. 212–3,

External links

František Salzer in Czech National Theater ArchiveFrantišek Salzer on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Czechoslovak film database)
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