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Táňa Fischerová
Táňa Fischerová
Born	6 June 1947; Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	25 December 2019 (aged 72); Černošice, Czech Republic
Nationality	Czech
Occupation(s)	Actress; writer; television host; politician; civic activist
Website	tanafischerova.cz

Taťana Fischerová (better known as Táňa Fischerová) (6 June 1947 – 25 December 2019) ^[1] was a Czech actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. She was a candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election.^[2]

Biography

Fischerová was born in Prague.^[3] Her father, actor and theatre director Jan Fischer (or Fišer), was imprisoned in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during World War II.^[3]^[4]

She studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno,^[1]^[3]^[5] however, she did not finish her studies.^[3] In the late 1960s, she worked with Prague's Drama Club.^[3] She was sacked from the theatre during the period of normalization (in 1973).^[6] She then worked with the Jiří Wolker Theatre for four years.^[3] However, after her son Kryštof, whose father is the composer Petr Skoumal, was born with cerebral palsy, she left the theatre.^[3]^[7] In the 1980s, she worked as a freelance actress.^[6] During her acting career, she collaborated with significant personalities of Czech cinema, such as Jan Kačer,^[1]^[3] Evald Schorm,^[1]^[3] Antonín Máša, Jaromil Jireš, and Karel Kachyňa.^[8]

In 1989, she signed the petition "Několik vět" (A Few Sentences) prepared by the informal civic initiative Charter 77.^[6] At that time, she began participating in civic activities.^[6]

In 2002, Fischerová was elected to a seat in the Parliament of the Czech Republic as an independent candidate running on the slate of the Unie svobody-DEU (Freedom Union – Democratic Union).^[1] She served until 2006.^[1]^[3] However, she did not succeed in the next election, this time to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.^[3]^[9]

Fischerová was one of the three female candidates in the 2013 Czech presidential election,^[1]^[10] along with Zuzana Roithová and Jana Bobošíková. She was supported by the Green Party.^[11] Her team gathered around 65,000 approved signatures from citizens and met the quorum of minimum of 50,000.^[12] In the 1st round of the election, she placed 7th with 3.23% (166 211 votes).^[1]^[13] She did not qualify for the second round.

She was a member of the board of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97,^[3] the Czech Helsinki Committee,^[1]^[3] and a member of Amnesty International.^[3]^[14] Along with the singer Marta Kubišová and film director Jan Kačer, she helped to organize the series of annual advent charity concerts broadcast by the Czech Television.^[1]^[3]^[14]

Selected filmography

Kohout plaší smrt (1961)^[3]
Hotel for Strangers (1966)^[1]^[3]
Prodloužený čas (Extended Time) (1984)^[1]
Lev s bílou hřívou (The Lion with the White Mane) (1986)^[3]
Svědek umírajícího času (1989)^[3]
Hanele [cz] (1999)^[1]
Drona (2008 film) (2008)

Selected bibliography

Bílý den ... a jiné příběhy. Prague: Troja, 1999, 119 pp. ISBN 80-902-4282-0. (in Czech)
Jeden čas seje, jeden plody sbírá. Illustration Ivan Svatoš. Prague: Svatošovo nakladatelství, 2002, 35 pp. ISBN 80-238-9785-3. (in Czech)
Lydiiny dveře. Illustration Lýdie Hladíková. Prague: Porozumění, 1994, 84 pp. ISBN 80-238-1948-8. (in Czech)
Táňa Fischerová: nežít jen pro sebe. Prague: Portál, 2002, 133 pp. ISBN 978-807-1786-542. (interview with Daniela Brůhová) (in Czech)
Láska nevládne, láska tvoří: hledání cest k proměně společnosti. Hranice: Fabula, 2012, 177 pp. ISBN 978-808-7635-025. (co-authored with Radomil Hradil). (in Czech)
Světliny 2: putování k polednám. Prague: Chvojkovo nakladatelství, 2006, 144 pp. ISBN 80-861-8352-1. (co-authored with Ludvík Procházka and Karel Funk). (in Czech)