Karel Dostal - Czech actor and director.
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He was born in Nymburk in the family of the co-owner of the Leopold Dostal brewery and former theater actress Marie Horske-Kalmünzerova. The whole family was artistic - his brothers and sisters were also mainly involved in theater or painting. Karel graduated from the Czech real school in Prague, and then for two years he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University . He then entered the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Berlin with Emanuel Reicher. In 1908-1910 he played in Berlin with director Emil Geyer, and in 1910-1912 at the German Theater in Berlin Max Reinhardt . In 1912, he was a member of the Miningen Palace Theater in Thuringia, and in 1913 he performed poetry at the Goethe Festival in Düsseldorf.
In 1915, he joined the army. He fought on the Italian front and was injured. Until the end of World War I, he played on the New Vienna Stage ( Neue Wiener Bühne ).
In 1919, he acted as a guest on the stage of the National Theater . At the initiative of Yaroslav Kvapil in the season 1919-1920, he became the first director of the theater in Ceske Budejovice . In 1920, he was to become director of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. However, he preferred the place of actor and director in the theater in Vinohrady , where he worked in 1920-1922. From 1922 to 1955 he worked at the National Theater in Prague. After leaving the National Theater, he directed the municipal theaters in Prague, and in 1958-1959 he was director of the East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice .
He was buried in Prague at the Olshansky cemetery .