MEDIATHEK

Studied drama direction at the Janáček Academy of Arts in Brno. From 1993 worked at Brno’s HaDivadlo as a director, going on to become a playwright and the theatre’s artistic head. In 1997 he moved to Prague, where he taught, wrote scripts, translated and directed plays on a freelance basis. Since 2002, as a director and key author, he has been one of the two defining personalities – the other being Dušan D. Pařízek – of the Komedie Theatre. In addition to directing and writing plays, he also creates auteur-style films. 2004 saw the premiere of his full-length film Vaterland – A Hunting Logbook. He is also an artist and set designer. He realises practically all his plays himself, as the director. His most successful productions include his stage adaptation of Ladislav Klima’s novel The Suffering of Prince Sternenhoch (2007), his original plays Vodičkova – Lazarská (2005), Žižkov (2006), Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (2005) and Elfriede Jelinek’s Klara S (2004). David Jařab won the Literary Fund Award’s prize for the best film of 2004 with Vaterland – A Hunting Logbook, as well as the Czech Film Academy’s Český lev (Czech Lion) award for artistic achievement in Czech film in 2004. His producion Vodičkova – Lazarská was selected for the Neue Stücke aus Europa festival. Source: http://www.festivaldivadlo.cz/en/predstaveni/13/ dntz