Taťana Fischerová (better known as Táňa Fischerová) (6 June 1947 – 25 December 2019) was a

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actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the

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. She was a candidate in the

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Biography

Fischerová was born in

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. Her father, actor and theatre director Jan Fischer (or Fišer), was imprisoned in

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and Auschwitz concentration camps during

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. She studied at the

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in Brno, however, she did not finish her studies. In the late 1960s, she worked with Prague's

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. She was sacked from the theatre during the period of normalization (in 1973). She then worked with the

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Theatre for four years. However, after her son Kryštof, whose father is the composer

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, was born with cerebral palsy, she left the theatre. In the 1980s, she worked as a freelance actress. During her acting career, she collaborated with significant personalities of

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, such as

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, and

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. In 1989, she signed the petition "''Několik vět''" (A Few Sentences) prepared by the informal civic initiative

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. At that time, she began participating in civic activities. In 2002, Fischerová was elected to a seat in the Parliament of the Czech Republic as an independent candidate running on the slate of the '' Unie svobody-DEU'' (Freedom Union – Democratic Union). She served until 2006. However, she did not succeed in the next election, this time to the

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. Fischerová was one of the three female candidates in the 2013 Czech presidential election, along with

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and

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. She was supported by the

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. Her team gathered around 65,000 approved signatures from citizens and met the quorum of minimum of 50,000. In the 1st round of the election, she placed 7th with 3.23% (166 211 votes). She did not qualify for the second round. She was a member of the board of the Dagmar and

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Foundation VIZE 97, the

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, and a member of Amnesty International. Along with the singer Marta Kubišová and film director Jan Kačer, she helped to organize the series of annual advent charity concerts broadcast by the

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Selected filmography

*' (1961) *''

Hotel for Strangers ''Hotel for Strangers'' ( cs, Hotel pro cizince) is a 1967 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Antonín Máša. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. The film reconstructs the last days of murdered young poet Petr Hudec ( Petr Če ...

'' (1966) *''Prodloužený čas'' (''Extended Time'') (1984) *''Lev s bílou hřívou'' (''The Lion with the White Mane'') (1986) *''Svědek umírajícího času'' (1989) *' (1999) *''

Drona (2008 film) ''Drona'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language superhero film directed by Goldie Behl, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon and Jaya Bachchan. ''Dronas special effects shots were worked on by EyeQube, headed by Charles Darby and ...

'' (2008)

Selected bibliography

* ''Bílý den ... a jiné příběhy''. Prague: Troja, 1999, 119 pp. . * ''Jeden čas seje, jeden plody sbírá''. Illustration Ivan Svatoš. Prague: Svatošovo nakladatelství, 2002, 35 pp. . * ''Lydiiny dveře''. Illustration Lýdie Hladíková. Prague: Porozumění, 1994, 84 pp. . * ''Táňa Fischerová: nežít jen pro sebe''. Prague: Portál, 2002, 133 pp. . (interview with Daniela Brůhová) * ''Láska nevládne, láska tvoří: hledání cest k proměně společnosti''. Hranice: Fabula, 2012, 177 pp. . (co-authored with Radomil Hradil). * ''Světliny 2: putování k polednám''. Prague: Chvojkovo nakladatelství, 2006, 144 pp. . (co-authored with Ludvík Procházka and Karel Funk).

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