Prague, Vinohradská Street, Czech broadcast

main building of the Czech broadcast · Vinohradská 1409/12, 120 00 Prague-Prague 2, Czech Republic

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They Did Not Acknowledge They Have a Vermin There

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Jiří Suchý, a co-founder of the Semafor theatre, remembers a peculiar situation in the Czech Radio. After signing the Dva Tisíce Slov (Two Thousand Words) document and Několik Vět (Several Sentences) petition in the 70´s and 80´s he had limited options where he could work. “There were curious conditions in the Radio. I was usually forbidden there, but because there were many editorial staffs, the personnel was changing very often, and nobody passed on the instructions, they invited me once to shoot something for them. So I did. They were broadcasting it until somebody noticed, and then they forbade it again. Meanwhile, a different department called me. I never told anyone I could not work and nobody told that to me officially, so I broadcasted series of shows on the radio until they always noticed they have a vermin in the house.” In such an absurd way Jiří Suchý managed to perform in the radio for almost two years.

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Semafor Theatre

The Prague Semafor theatre was founded in 1959 by Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr. The original idea of the theatre actors joined to Suchý and Šlitr was a linkage of the widest spectrum of theatrical and artistic genres. The name of the theatre is an acronym – Sedm Malých Forem (Seven Little Forms). The first act played here was a musical comedy Člověk z Půdy (A Man from the Attic) starring for example Miroslav Horníček, Miloš Kopecký, Pavlína Filipovská or Waldemar Matuška. At first the theatre was placed in today´s Drama Club in Ve Smečkách Street, then it was moved to the Alfa passage at the Wenceslas Square where it made its most famous times. Nowadays the theatre is placed in Dejvice. The most famous plays include Jonáš a Tingl-Tangl (Jonáš and Tingl-Tangl), Zuzana Je Sama Doma (Zuzana Is Home Alone) or Dobře Placená Procházka (Well Paid Walk). A lot of important Czech artists went through the theatre and the music, songs and formation of Suchý and Šlitr influenced several generations of artists and spectators.

Prague, Vinohradská Street, Czech broadcast

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The building of the Czech, (formerly Czechoslovak), broadcast on Vinohradská Street became the focus of heavy fighting at the end WWII, during the Prague Uprising. On May 5, 1945, the broadcast began playing Czech music and even its editors started speaking Czech again. The Germans tried to stop the broadcasting, but the editors managed to air a call for help of the Czechoslovak broadcast. A similar situation occurred again in August 1968, when the Soviet occupying forces tried to silence the Czechoslovak broadcast. A shooting again took place in front of the building of the broadcast.

Prague, Vinohradská Street, Czech broadcast

They Did Not Acknowledge They Have a Vermin There

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