My grandfather Karel Hubáček and I had fishing and music together
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Petr Hubáček was born on 24th June in Liberec. His father, Ivan Hubáček, was a technician and later a businessman, while his mother, Ivana Hubáčková, whose maiden name was Vagnerová, worked in culture, in the media, ran a parliamentary office and was a teacher. Petr Hubáček’s grandfather was the architect Karel Hubáček, who designed the building of the century, a mountain hotel with a transmitter on Ještěd, for which he received the prestigious Perret Architecture Award in 1969. In his childhood, he used to go on trips and holidays with both grandparents. He also spent a lot of time fishing with his grandfather. He enjoyed playing the piano and listening to music with him. Petr Hubáček graduated from the Business Academy in Liberec and later from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen as a teacher for secondary schools - double major in psychology and music education. As part of the European Erasmus programme, he travelled to Oulu, Finland for a number of months before graduation, where he not only studied but also taught school children privately. He has played and performs in a number of bands in Liberec. After graduation he started working in a company dealing with instrumental ophthalmology. After 15 years he left the company and founded his own company with the same focus. In 2014, he co-founded the association Let’s Save the Warsaw Cinema, which aims to restore the legendary Liberec biograph more than 100 years old. Together with his entire family, he took care of Karel Hubáček, who fell ill with Alzheimer’s disease, from which he died in 2011. Now he is caring for the legacy of his famous grandfather.
