We accepted life as it went and we were happy with whatever had befallen us
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Anna Matějková, née Černá, was born January 3, 1925 in Brněnské Ivanovice. Thanks to her father’s job they lived in a small company-owned house on the ramparts of the Špilberk Castle in Brno. Anna completed a ballet school and already during the war she began dancing in the ballet ensemble of the Municipal Theatre in Brno. Later she transferred to the People’s Theatre. In 1944 she and her colleagues from the theatre were sent to do forced labour in the Adamov stamping factory. Anna witnessed a number of air raids on Brno by the Allied airplanes in 1944 and 1945. Among other places, she was hiding in a shelter in Špilberk with her family as well. She experienced the end of the war in Brno and the arrival of the Red Army. After the war she was a member of the People’s Theatre, a theatre in Olomouc and the theatre ensemble Na Hradbách. When she finished her career as a ballet dancer, Anna taught dance classes in the People’s Art School.
