The head of the art group: I have not experienced Jan Čenský’s approach with another famous person in 35 years

Photo: Jan Čenský Archive, with permission/Jan Čensky

PrahaIN.cz regularly writes about the expenses of some artists or music groups. The amounts vary greatly. While the young couple of rappers Yzomandis and Nik Tendo received 431,970 crowns including VAT at the Mosteck festival in September, Municipal Cultural Resources in Litoměřice paid 55 thousand crowns for Heidi Janků’s show. We found both amounts in publicly accessible contract records.

The last time we noticed the sums received by the actor Miroslav Donutil for some events for local governments. In two hours it was about 120 thousand crowns. On this account, we had the opportunity to talk to Jan Mark (JaMa Agency Art Group), who has been organizing concerts and social events for almost thirty-five years. Recently, he organized a show with the German singer Sandra at the Prague Congress Center. Songs like In The Heat Of The Night, Maria Magdalena or Heaven Can Wait probably don’t have to be mentioned.

However, Jan Marek has several other productions behind him. In 1999, he organized a concert with Daniel Hůlka, who was thirty years old, accompanied by a concert with Iveta Bartošová. Three years later, visitors to the Sports Hall in České Budějovice saw Martin Maxu. With him, they could sing Cest la vie or Morning in the streets. And so one could continue: Eva Burešová, Miroslav Donutil, Petr Spálený, Spirituál Kvintet, Ewa Farna or an evening of conversation with Jiří Kajínek.

“But if someone’s name is memorable like any other, it is Mr. Honza Čenský,” Marek told our editors. “He behaved several times in a way I’ve never experienced before, but I haven’t experienced him since,” he said. A moment’s silence then breaks down the memories of the storage in detail. “I organized large balls in Tábor, at that time a thousand people could participate. And I had chosen Jan Čenský as moderator. I called him. So the event was very interesting. Besides the co-hosts of Jan Čenský and Martina Kociánová. Beautiful evening on dance performances, many popular singers, groups and actors were playing here. And Honsa Čenský, as I called him, immediately agreed. I was a little surprised because Everyone immediately asks about the fee. He didn’t care what or what he would get. He just wanted to know the time and place to be there on time. As he said, so it happened,” said Jan Marek. And he repeated that he had not performed such a procedure before.

He is not the only witness who speaks of Jan Čenský in this way. PrahaIN.cz had the opportunity to speak with a man who once worked with him in advertising for the Czech swimming pools A&M Borovnička. “So it’s been a long time but I’ve spoken to him many times, he was a great guy. Accurate, quick, reliable,” said the man, who did not want to be named in this context.

However, hard work, humility and dedication are characteristic of the actor. As he told us, he hardly respects holidays and weekends, he always plays and plays. “Now we were in Slovakia, new things are being tried, sometimes it takes half a year,” he told our editors.

Jan Marek also organized special meetings for the South Bohemian elderly for his group. For example, Josef Vinklář or Zdenka Sulanová were very good at them (Madla sings to Europe, Lízina štěstí and others). The editors of PrahaIN.cz deal with the approach of some actors related to these themed nights in a separate article.