Claim: Zdenek Mahler, a Czech writer and musicologist who was a student of Faculty of Arts in Prague, worked as a freelance writer and screenwriter and published several books.
Evidence: Zdeněk Mahler (7 December 1928 – 17 March 2018) was a Czech writer, musicologist, pedagogue and screenwriter. As a student of Faculty of Arts in Prague Mahler cooperated with Student magazines and also with Československý rozhlas where he get regular job after finishing his studies. Since 1960 he worked as a freelance writer. As a screenwriter Mahler contributed to the creation of several successful films, such as Nebeští jezdci (1968), Den sedmý, osmá noc (1969), The Divine Emma (1979), Concert at the End of Summer (1980), Amadeus (1984), Goya's Ghosts (2007), Lidice (2011) and many other films or TV documentaries. He published several books, such as Search for golden age (1965, translated to English in 1966) and biographies of famous persons, such as Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Antonín Dvořák, or Ema Destinová.