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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 and she has been also performing traditional Jewish songs for a number of years. 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. 
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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