František Salzer

**František Salzer** (August 30, 1902, Sušice  – December 23, 1974, Prague) was a Czechoslovak theatre director, theatre actor, film actor, University professor and translator.

## Biography

He studied at Prague Conservatory (1920–1924).
In the season of 1924/1925 he started his career at Olomouc Theatre as actor and later on as Theatre Director. In 1930 he came to Prague as Theater Director of Vinohrady Theatre. He stayed at Vinohrady Theatre till the end on the 2nd World War.  During his time at the Vinohrady Theater, Salzer has directed over 120 plays by world and Czech authors (incl. W. Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Carlo Goldoni, G. B. Shaw, F. Schiller, Stefan Zweig, Jiří Mahen, J. K. Tyl, Viktor Dyk, V. K. Klicpera, etc.)

From 1947 till  1963 he acted as Theatre Director of the National Theatre (Prague).

During the years of 1941–1945 he was professor of the Prague Conservatory. He was one of the founders of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) together with Jiří Frejka, František Tröster and Josef Träger. Then he was the Dean of this Faculty in three periods (1954–1955,  1958–1961 and 1963–1970)  and acted as professor of this Faculty till his death in 1974.

Salzer was also translator of theatre plays (e.g. Stefan Zweig: _Ovečka chudých – Das Lamm des Armen_, Fritz Hochwälder: _Tlustý anděl z Rouenu – Boule de suif_, etc.).

His first wife, Eva Adamcová (1895–1972), with whom he has been living for 42 years, was an actress and translator. From August 1923 she was a member of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava.

### Bibliography

- Vlastimil Blažek: _Sborník na paměť 125 let Konservatoře hudby v Praze_, Vyšehrad, Praha, 1936, pp. 145, 461, 462, 464, 514
- František Černý: _Theater – Divadlo_, Orbis, Praha, 1965, pp. 65, 71, 117, 119, 123, 144, 368–370, 378–9, 409
- Kolektiv autorů: _Dějiny českého divadla/IV._, Academia, Praha, 1983, pp. 82, 122, 178, 262, 277, 367, 369, 371, 373, 417, 478–9, 484–6, 504, 508, 512, 525, 610, 619, 626, 628, 635, 649, 659, 665–7
- V. Müller a kol.: _Padesát let Městských divadel pražských 1907–1957_, issued by Ústřední národní výbor hl. m. Prahy, Praha, 1958, pp. 15, 36–8, 61, 100, 106–8, 110, 130–164, 180
- Redakce umělecké správy divadla: _Čtvrtstoletí Městského divadla na Král. Vinohradech, jubilejní sborník_, issued by Městské divadlo na Král. Vinohradech, Praha, 1932, pp. 21, 34, 44, 56, 89, 116, 135–7
- Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová: _Vinohrady Theatre 1907–2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl_, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Praha, 2007, pp. 45, 50, 55–9, 61–2, 65, 69, 173–9, 193,
- Jiří Žák a kol.: _Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2007 – Vinohradský příběh_, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Praha, 2007, pp. 157, 164, 188,
- Jiří Žák: ''Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2017, issued by Nakladatelství XYZ,  Praha,  2017, pp. 212–3,

## Other websites

- František Salzer in Czech National Theater Archive
- František Salzer on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Czechoslovak film database)
- František Salzer on Filmová databáze (Film database)

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: František Salzer
- **image**: Prof. František Salzer.JPG
- **caption**: František Salzer
- **birth place**: Sušice,  Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
- **death place**: Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
- **nationality**: Czech
- **occupation**: Theatre Director, Actor, University Professor, Translator
- **yearsactive**: 1924–1974