Karolina Slunéčková
{{Short description|Czech actress (1934–1983)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Karolina Slunéčková
| occupation = actress
| birth_name = Karolína Olga Slunéčková
| image = Karolina Slunéčková.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|4|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Kladno, Czechoslovakia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|6|11|1934|4|8|df=yes}}
| death_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia
}}
Karolina Slunéčková, (born Karolína Olga Slunéčková) (8 April 1934 – 11 June 1983), working under the name Olga Sluníčková,Czech film, page 153 was a Czech actress, and wife of actor Rudolf Vodrážka.Czech Theater page 115
Life
Karolina Slunéčková was born on 8 April 1934 in Kladno.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmweb.pl/person/Karol%C3%ADna+Slun%C3%A9%C4%8Dkov%C3%A1-620412 |title=Karolína Slunéčková |language=pl|publisher=filmweb.pl |accessdate=9 November 2017}} She moved with her parents to Ústí nad Labem. During the German occupation of the Sudetenland, they were not able to emigrate, so throughout the war they went to the German school.
The essence of the acting was handed over by Professor Věra Petáková. When her love and passion for playing did not calm down during the years and her dream was not able to talk to her, she went to study in České Budějovice, where she studied at Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU).{{cite web |url=http://www.ahaonline.cz/clanek/trapasy/91527/tajemstvi-karoliny-sluneckove-byla-na-cernochy-ale-romanek-mela-s-munzarem.html |publisher=AHA Online |title=Tajemství Karoliny Slunéčkové: Byla na černochy, ale románek měla s Munzarem! |date=28 October 2013 |trans-title=The secret of Karolina Slunéčková: She was black, but she had a romance with Munzar|language=cs}}
In 1956, immediately after the end of DAMU, she got an engagement at the Vinohrady Theatre (at that time the Theatre of the Czechoslovak Army). From the very beginning, she played great roles, such as Natasha in War and Peace, starting with her long monologue to the audience. Each of her roles was always different but completely authentic and distinctive. She played dramatic and comedy. For her role in life we can consider the role of Margaret in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1966), where half the performance took place in a black jumpsuit. Only two performances were filmed, namely A Flea in Her Ear (1969) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1977).
Karolina got the biggest chance in the movie The Orange Boy (1975), where she played the mother of Otakar Brousek Junior's mother.Czech film pages 153–156.
Karolina met future husband Rudolf Vodrážka while still at school. After a few years they married and in 1960 their son Rudolf was born.
Just a week before her death, she came to the theatre, pleased to work again. Unfortunately she never looked at the stage. She died on 11 June 1983 at age 49.{{cite web |url=https://sedmicka.tyden.cz/rubriky/tahle-herecka-mela-nejkrasnejsi-nohy-v-ceskoslovensku_286128.html |language=cs|date=20 October 2013 |trans-title=This actress had the most beautiful legs in Czechoslovakia |title=Tahle herečka měla nejkrásnější nohy v Československu |accessdate=9 November 2017 |publisher=Sedmička Týden}}
Selected theatre roles
- 1977 George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Lorraine Sheldonová, Vinohrady Theatre, directed by Stanislav Remunda
Radio roles
- 1964 William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Czechoslovakian radio, directed by Ludvík Pompe{{Cite AV media |last=Velíšek |first=Martin |authorlink=Martin Velíšek |trans-title=Midsummer Nights Dream – Two archival recordings from 1950 and 1964 |title=Sen noci svatojánské – dvě archivní nahrávky z let 1950 a 1964 |url=http://www.rozhlas.cz/vltava/stream/_zprava/sen-noci-svatojanske-podruhe-a-potreti-respektive-poprve-a-podruhe--1622569 |date=9 June 2016 |accessdate=8 November 2017 |publisher=Czechoslavakian radio |language=cs}}
Gallery
Karolina Slunéčková.jpg|In the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1966)
Karolina v Broukovi.jpg|In A Flea in Her Ear (1969)
Karolina .jpg|In the television series Žena za pultem (1977)
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |title=Česká divadla: encyklopedie divadelních souborů |trans-title=Czech Theatre: encyclopedia of theatre ensembles |language=cs|location=Prague |year=2000 |publisher=Divadelní ústav}} {{ISBN|8070081074}}
- {{cite book |last=Fikejz |first=Milos |title=Český film : herci a herečky. III. díl : S–Ž. |trans-title=Czech film: actors and actresses. III. part: S-W . |location=Prague |publisher=Libri |year=2008}} {{ISBN|9788072773534}}
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Category:Czechoslovak actresses