RIP Martin Havelka

 

Martin Havelka has died

 

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October 3, 2020

Martin Havelka

July 10, 1958 Karlovy Vary - October 2, 2020 Brno

 

Actor, longtime member of the Goose on a String Theater, the Brno National Theater and the Brno City Theater.

 

He completed secondary vocational education. He started at the Goose on a String Theater in Brno, where he has been working since 1976, and thus experienced its stellar years. He started as a student without acting education (he was originally a waiter in Karlovy Vary) in the production Ballad for a Bandit. This was followed by a number of other emblematic productions of the Theater (Goose) on a String of the Time - Games and Puns, The Long Way, The Strike, Potato Day, Chameleon and many others.

In the mid-1990s, he moved to the National Theater in Brno. From August 1, 1999 he was a permanent member of the Brno City Theater. He has been nominated three times in theatrical productions for the Thalia Award - for his role as Che Guevara in the musical Evita (1998), for Truffaldine in The Servant of Two Masters (2000) and for his role as Darryl van Horn in the musical comedy The Witches of Eastwick (2007). In 2011, he returned to the Goose on a String Theater, where director Vladimír Morávek cast him in the role of Leoš Janáček in the production Leoš or Your Most Faithful.

He first appeared in the film in Ballad for a Bandit. The more famous films in which he has performed (these were never the main roles) include Po stubiži barefoot, The Teacher or The Story of the Godfather. From the 1990s, he began to appear a lot on television - in series such as Detective Martin Tomsa, Chetnické humoresky, Dobrá čtvrť, Redakce, Vyprávěj and later Kriminálka Anděl, Místo zločinu Plzeň, Polda, Specialisté or Rédl. He often took on the role of criminalists or, conversely, criminals. Most of his work in front of the camera was created in Brno.

He was married. He and his wife Iva had three children: Jana, Martina and Emília Emma. The wife works at the Brno City Theater as a prop and his son Jan is an illuminator there. His interests included carving wooden statues, everything about Indians, photography. He organized several sales exhibitions of his art objects. He lived near Brno in the village of Radostice.

He succumbed to a long-term serious illness. The information was published today on his twitter account by director Jan Hřebejk and confirmed by Kateřina Vižďová, spokesperson for the Brno City Theater 

 

HAVELKA, Martin

Born: 7/10/1958, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia

Died: 10/2/2020, Brno, Czech Republic

 

Martin Havelka’s western – actor:

Western Story – 2011 (Jerry)