"Evening Meeting"
Martina Kociánová
Jaromír Hanzlík
Martina Kociánová
The mezzo-soprano and presenter originally studied history and museology at the Silesian University in Opava, and at the same time at the Ostrava People's Conservatory. During her studies, she began working as an editor and presenter of news for Czech Television. She hosted the main news program on TV Nova, the main news on TV Prima. In 2007, she hosted the live discussion program Side Effects on ČT24.
For almost three years, she interviewed the most important figures of our culture and science on Frekvenci 1 in the program Martina Kociánová's Afternoon Calm. She has been broadcasting on Czech Radio Two for more than eight years. She has invited Czech and foreign personalities to the program Host do domu. In 2018, she became independent, founded the online Radio Svobodné universum and is preparing the programs Kupředu do minulosti and Rada střechěch for this portal.
In parallel with this presenter and journalistic profession, she is engaged in singing. She has been a guest at the State Opera Prague, the F. X. Šalda Theater in Liberec, the South Bohemian Theater in České Budějovice, the Silesian Theater in Opava, and the Karlín Music Theater. She has collaborated with a number of musical ensembles and regularly performs with the Amadeus Wind Trio, with guitarist L. Brabec, with harpist K. Englichová, and violinist J. Svěcený. She has performed not only on domestic stages, but also in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Germany, Austria, France, and Japan.
In 2002, the European Union for the Arts awarded her the Gustav Mahler Prize for her work in the field of art. In 2019, she received the Kramer Prize for Independent Journalism for the audio series Forward to the Past from the Association of Independent Media.
Jaromír Hanzlík needs no introduction to theater, film, or television audiences. Since 1966, when he appeared at the Prague Vinohrady Theater as Troilus in Shakespeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida at the age of eighteen, he has worked on this stage for thirty-three years, creating countless roles in both classical and contemporary dramatic repertoire. His talent was innate, his grandfather was a military musician, his father František Hanzlík was an actor and cabaret artist who also appeared in several films.
Jaromír Hanzlík first stood in front of the camera at the age of seven, in 1955, in the film Hastrman based on one of Jan Neruda's Malostranské povídy; he played one of the boys who mock Mr. Rybář, nicknamed "Hastrman". Decades later, he appeared in two now-forgotten films by director Pavel Juráček. In the poetic Romance pro křídlovku, a film based on a poem by František Hrubín and directed by Otakar Vávra from 1966, it was already clear that Czech cinema had acquired a new face. Also from the same year is the film story from the end of World War II, A Coach to Vienna, directed by Karel Kachyna, in which Jaromír Hanzlík played the role of a German soldier. The frequency of film roles increased in the following years, he embodied both serious and comedic characters. Filmgoers will not forget the romantic comedy Summer with a Cowboy, in which he starred (as on many other occasions) with Daniela Kolářová, the films based on the stories of Bohumil Hrabal directed by Jiří Menzel, The Snow Maiden and The Snow Maiden, the film fantasy with a historical background The Delights of the Fatherland, in which he played the young Charles IV, and the musical film A Night at Karlštejn, in which he played the role of Pešek. Television viewers remember the series Sons and Daughters of Jakub the Glassman, or Cirkus Humberto based on the novel by Eduard Bass, and other television series.
In the seventies and eighties, Jaromír Hanzlík was one of the most popular actors. After finishing his work in the theater in 1996, he lived in Switzerland. He presented the memorial program "Smiles" on Czechoslovak Television, and the documents about him are collected in the publication Album úsměvů (2002). He will certainly remember his acting life with a smile this time too.
