Marek Pivovar (26 June 1964 – 2 January 2021) was a Czech writer,

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

, playwright and radio director.

Biography

Pivovar studied the Czech language, history, and theatre studies at Masaryk University in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

. From 1994 to 2017, he was the dramaturge of the

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre ( cs, Národní divadlo moravskoslezské; NDM) is a professional theatre company based in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is one of ten opera houses in the country, and the largest theatre company in the ...

in Ostrava. He also became dramaturge of the

Mahen Theatre Mahen Theatre ( cs, Mahenovo divadlo) is a Czech Republic, Czech theatre situated in the city of Brno. Mahen Theatre, built as German ''Deutsches Stadttheater'' in 1882, was one of the first public buildings in the world lit entirely by electric l ...

. In 2017, he left the Moravian-Silesian Theatre due to illness and focused on freelance writing. Marek Pivovar died in Ostrava on 2 January 2021, at the age of 56 after a long illness from COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic.

References

1964 births 2021 deaths Czech writers Czech male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Czech dramatists and playwrights Czech directors Dramaturges Masaryk University alumni People from Brno Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub