Everything is as it should be. And if it’s not, that’s okay, that’s the way it’s supposed to be
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Ivana Hubáčková, maiden name Vagnerová, was born on 2 July 1949 in Mladá Boleslav. Her parents, Jiří Vagner and Jaroslava Vagnerová, were originally teachers. Ivana Hubáčková graduated from two secondary schools, general education and pedagogical, schools and also trained as a bookseller. In 1992 she graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. She experienced the occupation by the armies of the five Warsaw Pact countries in Liberec, where the invasion claimed nine lives and many wounded. In 1972 she married Ing. Ivan Hubáček, the son of the world-famous architect Karel Hubáček, who designed the mountain hotel with a transmitter on Ještěd and won the prestigious Perret Prize for it. In 1976, she, her husband and daughter Lenka moved to Česká Lípa for a flat. After the birth of her son Petr in 1979 and maternity leave, she devoted herself to working in several cultural institutions. In 1989 the family returned to Liberec, where her husband Ivan got a job at the General Directorate of Civil Engineering. During the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she worked in the coordination centre of the Civic Forum and published a samizdat Li - forum informing about the events in Liberec at that time. Since 1990, she managed the parliamentary office of three Liberec MPs for the Civic Forum. At the same time she worked as a spokesperson for the Liberec City Hall. After graduating from university, she spent four years working as an editorial assistant at a regional television station. At the turn of the millennium, she started her teaching career, earned a living as a lecturer of retraining courses, taught at Charles University in Prague and since 2012 has been an external lecturer at the Technical University of Liberec.
