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Milan Svoboda – muž v pozadí
MILAN SVOBODA – THE MAN IN BACKGROUND

Author(s): Vít Pokorný
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: Československá republika 1918 – 1938; Slovenské národné divadlo; Národní divadlo; Státní konzervatoř hudby v Praze; Protektorát Čechy a Morava; Divadlo Anduly Sedláčkové;

Summary/Abstract: The study represents the life and artistic career of today’s almost forgotten theatre director Milan Svoboda (1883 – 1948). It is based on the extensive Svoboda estate, located in the Theatre Department of the National Museum. It follows the artist from his amateur beginnings in Roudnice nad Labem, through his career as a pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory, theatre director at the Slovak National Theatre, guest director at the National Theatre in Prague, to his post-war effort to create high-quality stage art in the border villages abandoned by the Germans. Thanks to the substantial and rich material found in his estate, the study demonstrates the conflict of creative ideals and the desire to seek an aesthetic beauty in a world within a regimented state, grand political scheming, critics and “progressive” theatrical colleagues.

  • Issue Year: 66/2018
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 117-140
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Slovak