Patrik Hartl

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Patrik Hartl
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Born (1976-09-10) 10 September 1976 (age 45)
Olomouc, Czech Republic
EducationFilm and TV School, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Known forwriter, playwright, theatre and film director
Notable work
The Best Weekend; Moments of Happiness; The Prague Lexicon of Love; Doofus, Smarty, Dotty and Carl – novels An Adriatic Honeymoon; 4 Sisters; The Vacuum Cleaner; The Star; Private Talks About Happiness – theatre plays
Awardsthe Czech Best Seller Award (2014, 2016, 2018)
Websitepatrikhartl.cz

Patrik Hartl (born 10 September 1976 Olomouc) is a contemporary Czech novelist, playwright and theatre director.

Life and career[]

Patrik Hartl studied film and TV directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.[1]

He lives and works in Prague. He has written and (as his own director) staged eight comedies, all of which have become box-office hits.[2] Since 2000, he has been an in-house playwright and director at the Studio DVA theatre,[3] an independent theatre company based on Wenceslas Square in central Prague.

His novels have three times won the Czech Best Seller Award for the best-selling new book in the Czech Republic.[4]

Works[]

Theatre comedies[]

(Translations of titles for informational purposes only.)

  • Hovory o štěstí mezi čtyřma očima (Private Talks About Happiness; 2004)
  • Večírek na Seině (A Party on the Seine; 2005)[5]
  • Klára a Bára (Klára and Bára; 2006)
  • Soukromý skandál (A Private Scandal; 2011)
  • Hlava v písku (Head in Sand; 2013)
  • Hvězda (The Star; 2013)
  • Vysavač (The Vacuum Cleaner; 2015)
  • 4 sestry (4 Sisters; 2016)
  • Líbánky na Jadranu (An Adriatic Honeymoon; 2017)

Novels[6][]

(Translations of titles for informational purposes only.)

  • Prvok, Šampón, Tečka a Karel (Doofus, Smarty, Dotty and Carl; 2012)
  • Malý pražský erotikon (The Prague Lexicon of Love; 2014)
  • dvojromán Okamžiky štěstí (Moments of Happiness; 2016)
  • Nejlepší víkend (The Best Weekend; 2018)

References[]

  1. ^ "Životopis | Patrik Hartl" (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  2. ^ "Hartl Patrik « Studio DVA divadlo". www.studiodva.cz. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  3. ^ "Studio DVA divadlo". www.studiodva.cz. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  4. ^ "2014 | Český bestseller". www.ceskybestseller.cz. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  5. ^ divadloviola.cz. "Divadlo Viola" (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  6. ^ "Patrik Hartl |" (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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