photo: Vít Hassan for PrahaIN.cz/Dagmar Havlová
STB ARCHIVES: PrahaIN.cz has been dedicated to the archives of security forces for a long time. We select things that are interesting to the reader and to the period. Some have already been noticed by the media in the past, others have been overlooked. There’s also a part that doesn’t fit anywhere.
Here for today we include an entry regarding the actress Dagmar Havelová (née Veškrnová).
The secret police initially targeted her husband, radio director and broadcaster Radvít Novák. And also to his father, Jaromír Novák, a doctor from Brno.
At the same time, everything started completely differently and elsewhere.
At the beginning of the eighties, so-called anti-regime publications began to appear in various places in Czechoslovakia. These were typewritten pages where unknown authors criticized the regime’s approach to democracy. Immediately after the capture, the StB went to work.
She completed dozens of interrogations, checked who she could. “On March 3 – March 22, 1980, further investigations were carried out in the ‘Democrat’ event in Brno, where the tent tasks were specified and additional information was found about the persons passing through the event,” reads the official record from 1980. Secret the members then went mainly to Brno, Hodonín and also to Břeclav.
Dagmar Havelova. Photo: PrahaIN.cz
Disruption of the family
For example, at the secondary school in Klobouky, they completely checked the teachers and workers of the farm there. All with the help of regional office workers. The aim was to secure the typewriters on which the alleged anti-state activity could take place.
Among those questioned were also representatives of Jehovah’s Witnesses from Hradec Králové and the surrounding area.
After that, the StB began to focus on individuals. To those who could come into contact with the texts and spread them further. The family of Jaromír Novák mentioned above was also present, especially his son Radvít and his wife Dagmar Veškrnová. The secret police took a detour as usual. They requested information from the housekeeper. They wanted to know who Radvít Novák is, how he lives, what his reputation is. However, the confidante stepped on Dagmar Veškrnová rather than him.
At the time, the family lived in Prague 9, specifically on the third floor of an apartment building in Na Rozcestí Street. StB even had a floor plan drawn up for proof.
According to a confidant named Maruška (it was a fifty-seven-year-old woman whom the StB obtained during a background check, note ed.) the family lived in disarray. Because she knew everyone well, she first told the police the version of Dagmar Veškrnová. According to the actress, her husband was to blame for everything bad. He said he did not attend to family duties.
However, Maruška’s confidant did not believe these words.
She took it upon herself to search and interview to find out how things were.
Dagmar Havelova. Photo: PrahaIN.cz
Parents commute from Brno
“It’s the other way around. Veškrnová often comes home late and drunk,” she said in the official record. In addition, he is said to not take care of the household at all. Does not wash, does not iron, does not cook. “Which has to be taken care of by Novák, who cooks, washes and takes care of the child. Veškrnová is not popular in the house,” she added. As she obviously didn’t miss anything, she added that “only Veškrnová’s parents go to the apartment”. She even knew that they had a Warburg with a Brno license plate. “Radvít Novák’s father does not go to Prague at all, as stated by a confidant who often visits the Novák’s apartment and does not know the old man at all. About Radvít Novák’s mother, she said that she divorced the old man and married a certain Prokop, and they both live at Dimitrichov 56 in Ostrava,” StB quoted the housekeeper as saying.
In this case, too, verification occurred. This time at Radvít Novák’s place of work, where a staff member wouldn’t let him. She spoke of him only in superlatives.
The police left Dagmar Veškrnová alone. They only returned to her in 1986, in connection with her alleged affair with assistant director Jiří Ostrý.
In 1980, Dagmar Havlová was already known to the general public. She had roles in Bachelors, Killing Girl or Blockbuster. Dozens of other roles (The Octopus from the Second Floor, The Angel Seduces the Devil, The Embarrassment of Cook Svatopluk or The Inheritance or Kurvahošigutntag) were still waiting for her.
Radvít Novák, a respected personality of theater and radio, died in November 2015. He was sixty-three years old.
2023-12-16 08:23:59
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