Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Department of Dramatic Theatre (Czech: Divadelní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze, abbreviated DAMU) is one of three departments at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (alongside the Film and TV school and the Department of Music). The academy was opened in 1945 immediately after the Second World War as a part of the newly created academy for the arts.[1] The department's teachers have included prominent personalities in modern Czech theatre, such as Otomar Krejča, set designer František Tröster, Ivan Vyskočil, director Jiří Frejka, and Miroslav Haller. DAMU is a member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) and the European network on cultural management and policy (ENCATC).

Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Divadelní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze
TypePublic
Established1945/46
DeanKarel František Tománek
Location
Prague
,
Czech Republic
Websitehttps://www.damu.cz/en/?
From "Hra", a theatre performance by DAMU students

Departments

The two main departments of the school are:

  • Department of Dramatic Theatre, which prepares students for the repertory theatre system and educates them in interpreting classic and contemporary texts
  • Department of Alternative Theatre and Puppetry, including a sub-department devoted to scenography and a division for alternative stage design

Other departments include:

  • Department of Stage Design
  • Department of Authorial Creation and Pedagogy, educating in performance, including an improvisational acting discipline developed by Professor Ivan Vyskočil, called "Acting with the Inner Partner".
  • Department of Drama in Education, educating in the role of theatre in education
  • Department of Theory and Criticism, educating in theatre criticism and theoretical subjects
  • Department of Arts Management, educating in theatre management

The Department of Dramatic Theatre has recently introduced doctoral studies in four areas:

  • Stage Creation and the Theory of Stage Creation
  • Theory and Practice of Theatre Creation
  • Alternative Theatre, Puppetry and its Theory
  • Authorial Acting and Theory of Authorial Creation and Pedagogy

Notable alumni

Deans of DAMU
  • 1946–1948 Jiří Frejka
  • 1948–1949 Klementina Rektorisová
  • 1949–1950 František Götz
  • 1950–1952 Jan Kopecký
  • 1952–1953 František Götz
  • 1953–1954 Vladimír Adámek
  • 1954–1955 František Salzer
  • 1955–1958 Josef Bezdíček
  • 1958–1961 František Salzer
  • 1961–1963 Antonín Dvořák
  • 1963–1970 František Salzer
  • 1970–1972 Jan Císař
  • 1972–1985 Eva Šmeralová
  • 1985–1989 Jana Makovská
  • 1990–1991 Jan Dušek
  • 1991–1994 Miloslav Klíma
  • 1994–1997 Miloš Horanský
  • 1997–2000 Vladimír Mikeš
  • 2000–2006 Markéta Kočvarová-Schartová
  • 2006–2013 Jan Hančil
  • 2013–present Doubravka Svobodová

References
  1. Various authors: AMU 60 years of existence (A book issued on the occasion of 60th anniversary of AMU´s founding), Praha, 2006, page 1-29, ISBN 80-7331-065-1
  2. "Obeti a vrazi - herci". Ceska Televize. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. Actor Peter Haničinec († 77) - The life of a fight from the beginning, 11 November 2007, AhaOnline.com, retrieved 26 April 2014
  4. Ellinger, Kat (20 June 2018). "Juraj Herz obituary: a one-man wave of Czechoslovak horror". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute.
  5. "Tomáš Klus". OSOBNOSTI.cz.
  6. "Plakáty — Autoři — Kubíček, Jan". Terryho Ponozky. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  7. Vlach, Pavel. "Karel Roden". FDB. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  8. "Government of the Czech Republic profile". Government of the Czech Republic. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  9. "Jan Svankmajer". World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry Arts. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  10. Brožová, Věra (1998). "Alena Vostrá". Slovník české literatury po r. 1945 (in Czech). Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR. Retrieved 1 May 2012.

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