Biography

Blanka Fišerová was born in 1977 in Třebíč. She has gained a bachelor degree at the Silesian University in Opava, in the field of Czech Literature. At Masaryk University, at the Faculty of Social Studies she has gained a Master degree in the field of Media Studies and Journalism. Her studies of Theory and History of Drama at the Faculty of Arts, at Palacky University Olomouc were not finished. She is now studying Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting in PhD. study programme at Theatre Faculty of the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno.

She has been interested in poetry, prose and drama since her eighteen.

Presently, she is working as an assistant professor for theatre studies at the Sileasian University in Opava, where she has created a field called Cultural Dramaturgy Focused on Theatre.

She has dealt with the non-professional student theatre since the beginning of her studies at the Silesian University in Opava (1995). In the years 2003-2004 she was cooperating with the City Theatre Brno as an assistant director and a dramaturgist. Due to a cooperation with the director Zdeňek Černín she was allowed to start working as a dramaturgist in the Silesian Theatre Opava at the beginning of the year 2004. In September 2008 she has become an artistic director of the drama department.

In the years 2007 and 2008 she was externally taking part in two projects of Prague Studio Dva cooperating on inscenations of plays by a Croatian playwright Miro Gavran – All about Women and All about Men (Czech release). Both inscenations were directed by Jana Janěková.

She has cooperated, for instance, with the following directors and authors: Zdeněk Černín, Jana Janěková, Zdeněk Kaloč, Ivan Krejčí, Michal Lang, Hana Mikolášková, Oxana Smilková, Gustav Skála, Rudolf Tesáček and with many others.

She has gained a number of actor's opportunities – acting Masha in A. P. Chekhow´s drama The Seagull, Maria Stuart in the Shiller’s drama, Clara in Goldoni’s Servant Of Two Masters, an Angel in Between Worlds by E .E. Schmitt, or Célia in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Apart from dramaturgy and the text correction she is concerned with a dramatic writing. Her dramatic piece Zatím si nejsem jistá názvem was chosen for a final nomination in Alfréd Radok‘s Awards for the best original dramatic piece of the year 2007. Her writing is supplied by Aura-Pont agency, available at: www.aura-pont.cz, you can get there more detailed information about the content of this dramatic piece in English.

Zatím si nejsem jistá názvem /short annotation/

The text is constructed in a modern way, composed of a gradual dramatic mosaic, in which the main role is acted by the fate-tempted poet Anna, who was in an ex-regime pursuited for her writing, on the contrary, Anna is enquired for her work also at present, because of her alleged influence on anarchists.

From the present point of view, aging Anna, already without the husband, is still being – in a Kafka’s way – pursuited, and she is balancing her present life. The chamber drama is concentrated on Anna’s inner struggles and dilemmas, on her doubts about the meaning of writing (this is also visible in the character of the Investigator), on her doubts about the meaning of her relationship,. The drama gradually gives us pieces of survey of her life in the range of a few years. Other characters seem to be comming out of the foggy mist of memories, destroying boarders between the past and the future.

She has been writing poetry since her eighteen, however, she has decided to give them publicity much later. She has gained a number of awardings, for example: the third position in the poetry competition of Václav Hrabě’s Hořovice, in the year 2000. The Czech Radio 3 has broadcasted two programs with her poetry (as a part of the program Zelené Peří of M. Kovařík). She has participated in many author’s readings in Pragu, Brno and Ostrava (e. g. Poetry in Colours). Some of her poems were used in drama inscenations.