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HANA FREJKOVÁ, She has been invited as a guest to many theatres and participated in a number of stage projects, such as Modche and Rezi, Tajbele, and The Diner, as well as in film and TV, i.e.:
For several years, she worked with English language theatre groups in Prague; among others, she played the title role in The Enola, staged to commemorate the end of WWII. She starred in American musicals Nunsense I
and Nunsense II by D. Goggin,she cooperates with Theatre in Dlouhá. Her book entitled /Strange Roots/ was published
by TORST.
She says: "I sing songs that are close to my heart, that tell about human sorrow, grief and joy. Often, these songs are ironic, sentimental, nostalgic and still witty. It is the contrast between the sorrowful and the ironic, along with melody, that create the unusual tension, that makes these songs so unique. Each song I have ever sung has its own addressee; I have experienced each situation. My choice of songs and my way of their interpretation express my attitude to life and the way I cope with it. 
Spring 2024 The performances "Secret diary of Adrian Mole in his age of 13 and 3/4" and "Instinct" are still going on, as well as concerts in Františkovy Lázně and in the Carpe diem Flora café, in May excursion to Děčín with "Invisible I. / Hannah“! 
January, February 2024 I am glad to say that the Czech television has put "Hannah - An Ordinary Life" back on the air and that Jan Šulc, significant Czech editor, determined the closing night of the "Invisible I / Hannah" as the greatest experience of the 2023 year in the January magazine "Roš Chodeš"! I really appreciate such an award!!! 
PF 2024 And my personal PF 24! 
November, December 2023 the Prague last performance of the "Invisible I./ Hannah" and a concert of the the group Yiddish THREESOME in the Akropolis palace. There I said good bye to my art-docu "Hannah", but I will still take it out of Prague. Here you are a short by Miki Křen – such a resumé of mine. 
September, October 2023 I was invited to to the 30th festival … příští vlna/next wave.On the occasion of its anniversary, a beautiful book, edited by Lenka Dombrovská, was christened at the 20th Festival Honours Ceremony and I returned to the Prague and Brno parts of the festival with Jacob Gordin's one woman show "Dément Lemach". 
Summer, autumn 2023 Concerts continue. Performances on festival in Třebíč, v Prachatice, Praha 
Spring 2023 Beautiful concert of the group Yiddish Threesome in May in the Carpe diem Flora café, , ongoing performance of the "Secret diary of Adrian Mole in his age of 13 and ¾" and "Instinct", I was invited to the night broadcast Mikrofórum of Tereza Boučková: Great and brave, humble and beautifully creative Hana Frejková in Mikrofórum yesterday. You can hear it here 
March, April 2023
Productions of “Secret diary of Adrian Mole in his age of 13 and 3/4”,
Instinct and Invisible I. / Hannah (April 25).
January, February 2023
At the invitation of Ms. Zuzana Jürgens, director of
Adalbert Stifter Verein, evenings with my book “Divný kořeny” (Strange
Roots)
PF 2023! 
December 2022
At the invitation of Mr. Pavel Kosatik, a "Home Concert"
took place in his
home environment, whether you imagine a living room or a salon - both are possible!
Autumn 2022 – I have repeated my visit in Frankfurt on the Main having been invited by the “Initiative 9. November” society. In the bunker built in 1942 on the site of the former synagogue, my author's evening with the screening of the film "Hannah – just an ordinary life" took place. Beautiful places and great people. 
Auguat, September 2022
My concerts continued in Čáslav, in renewed synagogue.
In Tachov on the "Dveře jízdárny dokořán”(
Doors of the riding hall wide open) festival and me and my daughter Marianna took part in
the Kunsthalle workshop with Michal Škapa a he incorporated our suggestions and those of
five other participants, into the final shape!!
April, May, June 2022
I took part in Jakub Jansa’s project for "Museum of Literature”,
and also in the pilot episode of the series "What won't kill you ..."
directed by Tomáš Pokorný, which is dedicated to patients with multiple sclerosis, and I
filmed with Jiří Chlumský "Steps to Power".
February, March 2022
The performance Invisible I. / Hannah is still being repeated and
ČT Art has bought our movie "Hannah - just an ordinary life "
and it was broadcast on
March 3 rd 2022!
February 2022 After seven months Invisible I. / Hannah.Despite corona-virus, people came! 
January 2022 - New video ze - Site-specific performance at Bubny Railway Station's Silence Memorial 
PF 2022 PF 2022 
November 2021 Critic Literární noviny 
October 2021
Tour to Bremen and Frankfurt-Hattersheim - where evenings with the film
“Hannah - just an ordinary life”, and talks with author of the book "Strange roots" and dicussions were organized.
September 2021
the festival … příští vlna/next
wave … She has got the Personality of the Year award dedicated
to publicist, Yiddish songs singer and actress Hana Frejková both artistic and personal exposure in her performance
"Invisible I. / Hannah" and in the movie “Hannah - just an ordinary life”.
August 2021 After a year pause we finally gave a concert in Mikulov and in the Komedie theater on the occasion of the launch of the book by Zuzana Augustová, "Experiment jako kritika nacismu" (Experiment as a critique of Nazism). 
PF 2021 
October - December 2020 in the sign of coronavirus. All concerts and performances have been canceled. We prepared the autobiography Hannah for camera and shot under the name Hannah - ordinary life, directed by Miřenka Čechová, camera Barbora Johansson. The premiere was on December 27th, 2020 and I can revaeal now that the video/film will be taken over by the ČTArt and it will be broadcasted in three years. 
August - September 2020
I took part in an international project - reading the play Jewish Enough for Hitler written by
Hadar Galron
which was organized by Israel + AJT (Association of Jewish theatres in the US). It was performed online with the
Theatre Ariel based in Philadelphia, PA.
by a group of people from all over the world, Chicago and Philly in the US, Israel, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Directed by Jeremy Aluma & Executive Director at Alliance
for Jewish Theatre.
It was performed via Zoom on Tuesday, August 18, 11am - 2pm Central Time (12pm - 3pm Pacific Time, 6pm - 9pm Central
European Time, 7pm - 10pm Israel Time).
September 2020 Invisible I. / Hannah - premiere of an autobiographic performance about a woman who solves her relationship with her mother, strives for her professional ranking, tries to have a comprehensive family, where both parents and children function properly, and last but not least, tries to assert even in the last period of her life! This time it 's in a different approach than in my book Strange roots and also it 's the first time I act under my native name - Hannah! Director Miřenka Čechová. 
Year 2020! Jewish Culture Week in Cheb! Great concert in Cheb!!! Facebook: Coming from France to Cheb for two weeks and arrived just the day before, I have been there in public library for your concert. It was wonderfull. Congratulations and thanks a lot for this pleasure to hear you! Salih Bozok. This time we played in the wine bar, Carpe Diem Flora. And again in permanent engagement in Františkovy Lázně. 
PF 2020 
Winter 2019 - The concert in the Divadlo v Dlouhé theatre, this time dedicated to composers. During the evening, the fates of authors of Yiddish songs and their life anabases, that has often ended in America, were introduced. International chanson festival "Burning Garden 2019” . Professional workshop for students of Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and the concert in the Kinosál SNP. 
Autumn 2019
- “Stavitelé písku” (Sand Builders) – an artistic collage, where fragments
and paraphrases of Arabic, Hebrew and Persian poetry are compared with diplomatic correspondence, speeches and
statements, daily news - in a framework of the Next Wave festival.
July 2019 - A concert in the frame of Chribská Cultural Summer. 
Summer 2019 - Joseph Roth Poster Street Exhibition. The concert at the opening of the exhibition "Unbreakable" from Franz Kafka to the Velvet Revolution, organized by the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery and the Municipal House in Prague. 
Spring 2019 - Shooting of the film "Landscape in the shade” - a story about the coexistence of Czechs and Germans during the Second World War and just after it ended. A story based on real events. Director Bohdan Sláma. 
March 2019 - Commemorative Concert "Platform Poprad - Auswitz”. The first transport from Slovakia with 1,000 women, one of them returned. Spring concert in Dlouhá, Františkovy Lázně, Plzeň - this time the concert was a part of the “Year of Jewish Composers”, their fates and living ways. 
New year 2019 - Pf 2019! 
December 2018 - Chanukah Concerts in the Maisel Synagogue and in Liberec. 
Summer - Autumn 2018 - Concerts in Plzeň, in Brno with book “Strange roots”, Olomouc. 
May 2018 - The book fair 'Svět knihy' at the railway station Bubny. Talking about strange roots with Jan Burian in occasion of launching the audiobook ‘Strange roots’. Spring concert in Theatre in Dlouhá, guest Zdenek Zelba, the violinist from the Czech Philharmonic. 
April 2018 - Meeting Hana Frejková. Presentation of the audiobook and discussion with the publicist Adam Drda. 
March 2018 - Václav Havel's Library: Presentation of the audiobook and the concert of Yiddish songs. Interview for the Téma magazine. 
New year 2018 - PF 2018 The new year 2018 again with the audiobook and concerts. 
November 2017 - Rumburk, Secondary graphic school. Meeting and discussing with students. Great atmosphere! Interview for the Vital magazine. 
October 2017 - The audiobook ‘Strange roots' is here! See the review: here The audiobook is based on my book with the same name and was created thanks to contributions of my fans on Hit-hit website. It was introduced in Old synagogue in Plzeň, then during the Book Fair in Havlíčkův Brod (with Radioservis, a.s., the coproducer) and finally in the Theatre in Dlouhá together with the concert of the group Yiddish Threesome. You can buy the audiobook in the Czech radio shop, Vinohradská 12, Prague 2, during our concerts, also on radioteka.cz and here. 
September 2017 - Concert in Potvorov in the St. Nicholas church. By visiting the concert people have contributed to the reconstruction of this Romanesque object. 
August 2017 - Jaroslav Fragner’s Gallery in the frame of Open-air-arena-betlemske-namesti-2017 'Dement Lemach’, one-act play by Jacob Gordin with a concert of songs in Yiddish. 
April, May, June, July 2017 - Preparing to launching of the audiobook ‘Strange roots’ and concerts in Polná, Theatre in Dlouhá and shooting the TV series 'Lady and the King’. 
April 2017 Author’s reading and discussion at the Philosophical Faculty of the University J. E. Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem and an interview in the Australian magazine Čechoaustralan. http://www.cechoaustralan.com/cechoaustralan-podzim-jaro-2017.pdf. 
Spring 2017 the Maisel synagogue again: the Yiddish sketch ‘Dement Lemach’ by Jacob Gordin, where Hana Frejková has returned to the naturalistic acting of the beginning of the twentieth century and of course Yiddish songs. The same great evenings a concert in Karlovy Vary and another one in a beautiful newly restored synagogue at Polná. 
December 2016 "Colourful Thursday", a meeting with creative people in the Central Library in Prague, Mariánské náměstí. 
The end of 2016 has caught us in Trutnov on the Nine Gates festival, November 9th at Třeboň in the newly reconstructed Štěpán Netolický's house laying the "stumbling stones" of the Brody family, Our autumn concert with our guest Honza Meduna and his trumpet in the “Divadlo v Dlouhé” theatre. 
September 2016 We have participated the Hawdal concert once more in the splendid synagogue in Wroclaw. 
Summer 2016 Concert in the newly reconstructed synagogue in Březnice also concerts in Františkovy Lázně, Plzeň and Jindřichův Hradec. 
June 2016 Maisel synagogue - Jacob Gordin: Dement Lemach - Theatre of one actor and Yiddish songs. That evening Hana Frejková returns to the naturalistic acting in the beginning of the twentieth century. Sixs roles played by one actress! 
Duben, květen, 2016
Author's reading of book Strange Roots - Olomouc, The Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for JewishStudies, the Shape - review. 
Jaro 2016 Acting in Czech serials 'Mordparta’ and ‘Bohemian'. Concert in the Theatre at Dlouhá - this time with trumpet! 
Happy New Year 2015! Sweeten with THREESOME 
December 2015 The first reading of the Martin Falář's play „Šťastnou cestu“ (Have a Nice Trip); Review 
November 2015
For the 20th concert in the Theatre at Dlouhá I've invited the first
leader of my band, the violinist Zdeněk Zelba.
October 2015 The conference named „Non-legal judicature in totalitarian state“ under the auspices of Robert Pelikán, the minister of justice. In cooperation with 'Bremen Association of Judges'. 
25-27.9 2015 'Jewish Culture days' in Mikulov - Author's reading of my book Strange Roots and the concert in the Efram Gallery. 
September 2015 Next Wave Festival evening, the theme of the festival was terrorism and devils. I joined it with Jacob Gordin's playlet 'The Wild Man' (in original 'Der wilde Mensch') - 'Dement Lemach' in our version, that inspired F. Kafka to write 'The Metamorphosis. 
Summer 2015 Shooting of the series „My little garden“ for children and the movie „Polednice“ (Noonday Witch) by M. Samir, J. Sládek and M. Chlupáček. 
June 2015 The evening dedicated to a Romanian authoress Lena Constante and her book Silent Escape. In a private club of the Babalon magazine on the Libeň Island in the area of the 46. base organization of the Czech Gardening Union. 
Spring 2015 During the spring months we have performed concerts in Kladno, Trutnov, Františkovy Lázně and also in the newly restored synaogogue in Plzeň. 
February 2015 Portrait in Broadcast weekly (PDF). Concert in the Theatre in Dlouhá. 
Happy New Year 2015! In 2014, I've opened a blog in the Divadelní noviny (Theatre News) with reflections of some cultural events 
Autumn 2014 was featured by festivals in Banská Bystrica dedicated to Chava Reich, Days of Jewich Culture in Český Těšín in athe well-known cafe Avion/niova, in the renewed synagogue in Čkyně and of course on aour home stage in the Theatre in Dlouhá. 
Rok 2014 Further in 2014, there were some more concerts and also several film roles, e.g. in TV series Judge A. K.'s Life and Time (Czech Television), The First Department (Czech Television), Reportress (Czech Television) and in the three-part German series for ZDF Tannbach, Schicksal eines Dorfes - Fate of a village. 
In spring 2014 we were traveling around Europe with our Yiddish THREESOME tour. We were singing in Zagreb in a frame of a festival "Jews in Europe - Berlin, Vienna, Prague". Concert was organized by the Czech Embassy in Croatia with the assistance of the ambassador Mr. Martin Košatka. At this tour we had a guest - clarinetist Pepíno Von Dráček, the frontman of a band "Trombenik". The Swiss concerts were following in Basel and Zurich. 
The beginning of the year 2014 was accompanied by Old Czech songs at birthday party in a bar. Further concerts were held in Prague and Liberec and new critic on our CD Jidiš VE TŘECH came out. 
Listopad 2013 Concerts in Prague and Berlin. 
October 31 2013 Theater in Dlouhá Concert with a presentation on new CD. 
Léto 2013 Recording studio Smečky, concert and book presentation in Slavonice. 
June 12, 2013 concert at the occasion of preparing "SOA Memorial " and the "Kaddish" exhibition. 
Spring 2013 5th concert of Yiddish songs in the Theatre in Dlouha, in frame of festival "Prague - The Heart of Nations" on Old Town Ssquare and in the Vinohradské divadlo, at the market at Charles Sguare and at the newly restored Synagogue in Kosova Hora. More... 
January, February 2013 Yaer has started with concerts in Maiselova street, Great Synagogue in Plzen, in Franzesbad and with reading from the book "Strange roots" in Municipal Library in Pisek. 
PF 2013 
November, December 2012 in addition to concerts also some Readings from the book "Strange Roots". Last one in Cologne. 
2.12.2012 Telefonoteka - invited by Marketa Vejvodova - talk show about the music and the book "Strange Roots". 
September 2012 Finally, we have finished video from our last concert! 
March 2012 concert in Schwalbach at Frankfurt am Mainz and purim concert in Düsseldorf. 
8.November 2011 - concert within the program "Stolpersteine 2011" by artist Gunter Demnig. Frankfurt am Mainz - Hattersheim. 
5.10.2011 - Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center of Jewish Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University. A video preview from the concert at the occasion of ceremonial initiation of new academic and Jewish year. 
June, July 2011 she sang with "Yiddish IN THREE" group in Frankfurt am Mainz, Munich, Mikulov and she sang also at the festival "Šamajim" in Třebíč. 
1.7.2011 the documentary "Čtenářský deník Hany Frejkové" (Reading diary of Hana Frejková) was broadcast by ČT2 (Channel 2). 
March, April 2011 Concerts in Weiden, Františkovy Lázně, Wroclaw. 
February 2011 "... but first of all the same bed. Did you mean abyss?" evening composed from poetry by Marina Cvetajeva. Director: Irena Žantovská, music: Tomáš Reindl November 2010 - First night of "Smart Sam and Dull Gimpl" based on motives from I. B. Singer's short stories at the "U Valšů" theatre. 
April 2010 - New project "Yiddish IN THREE" with clarinettist Milan Potoček and accordionist Slávek Brabec.. 
In 2009 she was engaged mostly in concerts. Among others in Rotterdam, in Nýrsko - for Adalbert Stifter Verein, also in Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje - organised by the Czech Embassy November 2008 - Rozhlas Weekly 1/2009, K. Vlčková "Hana Frejková, in the Modern story cycles on CR-Vltava radio, read her own short story - Klema’s Last Charwoman.."Strange Roots
November 2007 – her book entitled Strange Roots is published by TORST.
“In her search, Hana Frejková did not use the time-tested procedure employed by authors involved in the events
/.../ and did not rely solely upon her memory. When working on her biography /Strange Roots/, she had to deal
with a lack of primary information about her family and had to search not only in her family archives, but also
in state archives containing official and police documents or even documents concerning national security. She
did not find /life/ in them and, for that matter, not even answers to all of her questions, but she succeeded in
combining her memories and memories of persons close to her with the /imprint of life/ abstracted from those
archival documents. She worked with these official documents in a very personal and courageous way, despite the
fact that it must have been considerably painful for her. In my opinion, her dramatic and profound attempt at
catharsis is unparalleled in Czech memoir literature.” Reviews in press:
On September 2, 2007, she and Michal Hromek released Dire-gelt, a CD of songs in Yiddish, on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the synagogue in Děčín. 
In 2006, Hana Frejková performed at the reputable Memorial Friedberger Anlage in Frankfurt-am-Main. Video: large(7MB) / small(2MB) file 
Since April 2006, she has worked with Theatre in Dlouhá, acting in Masquerade, or Phantom of the Opera by Terry Pratchett, directed by Hana Burešová. Since May 2007, she has been involved in another project, Club of Lost Talents, featuring songs originally performed within the walls of the Jewish ghetto in Terezín during World War II. This production pays homage to all Terezín artists who lost their talents, as well as their lives, in the turmoil of history. 
In 2004 she sang at the " 9 gates" festival in "Duo in Three" group, to which she invited the violinist Alexander Schonert. 
Mrs Frejkova has been performing traditional Jewish songs for a number of years.She sang with Jioí Pavlica in the TV programme They meet (Sešli se) and in the Prague Season Festival in Paris in 2002 with the group Prager Tandlmarkt. 
She starred in American musicals Nunsense I and Nunsense II by D. Goggin and several years in the Jewish cabaret Long Live the Life written by Jacob Luria (Israel). The cabaret consists of scatches and songs by Karel Švenk, Leo Strauss and others who were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezín) and art became a way of survival in the ghetto. |
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