Taťana Fischerová (better known as Táňa Fischerová) (6 June 1947 – 25 December 2019) [1] was a Czech actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. She was a candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election.[2]
Táňa Fischerová | |
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| Born | 6 June 1947 |
| Died | 25 December 2019 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Occupation(s) | Actress writer television host politician civic activist |
| Website | tanafischerova.cz |
Biography
Fischerová was born in Prague.[3] Her father, actor and theatre director Jan Fischer (or Fišer), was imprisoned in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during World War II.[3][4]
She studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno,[1][3][5] however, she did not finish her studies.[3] In the late 1960s, she worked with Prague's Drama Club.[3] She was sacked from the theatre during the period of normalization (in 1973).[6] She then worked with the Jiří Wolker Theatre for four years.[3] However, after her son Kryštof, whose father is the composer Petr Skoumal, was born with cerebral palsy, she left the theatre.[3][7] In the 1980s, she worked as a freelance actress.[6] During her acting career, she collaborated with significant personalities of Czech cinema, such as Jan Kačer,[1][3] Evald Schorm,[1][3] Antonín Máša, Jaromil Jireš, and Karel Kachyňa.[8]
In 1989, she signed the petition "Několik vět" (A Few Sentences) prepared by the informal civic initiative Charter 77.[6] At that time, she began participating in civic activities.[6]
In 2002, Fischerová was elected to a seat in the Parliament of the Czech Republic as an independent candidate running on the slate of the Unie svobody-DEU (Freedom Union – Democratic Union).[1] She served until 2006.[1][3] However, she did not succeed in the next election, this time to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.[3][9]
Fischerová was one of the three female candidates in the 2013 Czech presidential election,[1][10] along with Zuzana Roithová and Jana Bobošíková. She was supported by the Green Party.[11] Her team gathered around 65,000 approved signatures from citizens and met the quorum of minimum of 50,000.[12] In the 1st round of the election, she placed 7th with 3.23% (166 211 votes).[1][13] She did not qualify for the second round.
She was a member of the board of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97,[3] the Czech Helsinki Committee,[1][3] and a member of Amnesty International.[3][14] Along with the singer Marta Kubišová and film director Jan Kačer, she helped to organize the series of annual advent charity concerts broadcast by the Czech Television.[1][3][14]
Selected filmography
- Kohout plaší smrt (1961)[3]
- Hotel for Strangers (1966)[1][3]
- Prodloužený čas (Extended Time) (1984)[1]
- Lev s bílou hřívou (The Lion with the White Mane) (1986)[3]
- Svědek umírajícího času (1989)[3]
- Hanele (1999)[1]
- Drona (2008 film) (2008)
Selected bibliography
- Bílý den ... a jiné příběhy. Prague: Troja, 1999, 119 pp. ISBN 80-902-4282-0. (in Czech)
- Jeden čas seje, jeden plody sbírá. Illustration Ivan Svatoš. Prague: Svatošovo nakladatelství, 2002, 35 pp. ISBN 80-238-9785-3. (in Czech)
- Lydiiny dveře. Illustration Lýdie Hladíková. Prague: Porozumění, 1994, 84 pp. ISBN 80-238-1948-8. (in Czech)
- Táňa Fischerová: nežít jen pro sebe. Prague: Portál, 2002, 133 pp. ISBN 978-807-1786-542. (interview with Daniela Brůhová) (in Czech)
- Láska nevládne, láska tvoří: hledání cest k proměně společnosti. Hranice: Fabula, 2012, 177 pp. ISBN 978-808-7635-025. (co-authored with Radomil Hradil). (in Czech)
- Světliny 2: putování k polednám. Prague: Chvojkovo nakladatelství, 2006, 144 pp. ISBN 80-861-8352-1. (co-authored with Ludvík Procházka and Karel Funk). (in Czech)
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