Aleš Fuchs, Czech Writer and Playwright, Dies at 92 – Contributions to Film and Theater Remembered

The writer, playwright and screenwriter Aleš Fuchs died at the premature age of 92. He also worked as a film and theater publicist, and in the late 1980s he became the editor-in-chief of the Dramatic Arts Quarterly. The actresses Libuše Šafránková and Jana Paulová played in her film Blue Sparrow.

Aleš Fuchs, author of several art publications, died after a long illness. The editor of the website told about his death Theater newspaper Jana Soprova. He had several amazing titles to his credit, including the plays Night Escort or The War Ends Tomorrow and scripts for several films.

Fuchs received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bratislava and from the 1950s contributed to many Czech and Slovak journals, such as Hlas People, People’s Democracy or Theater and Film Newspapers. In 1957, he founded the Film and Theater Review.

He was also very active in the 1960s, during the Prague Spring he was at the birth of the weekly Zítřek. However, it was banned in 1969. After that, Fuchs devoted himself to creating scripts for several television films. However, in many cases he had to work under a pseudonym.

He wrote the film Blue Sparrow, starring Libuše Šafránková and Jana Paulová. It was thus at the birth of one of the biggest stars in Czech cinema, for Šafránková it was only her fourth leading role. In the eighties, he contributed to the magazine Scéna and became the editor-in-chief of the quarterly Dramatic Art. But you after melting The Union of Czech Dramatic Artists ceased to function.

Fuchs was later published in the New York Czechoslovak Weekly about political and social developments in Czechoslovakia. He worked actively until a very advanced age, nand towards the end of his career he was preparing, for example, a publication about Adina Mandlová.

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