We’re not here just for fun, I’d like to leave a mark before I’m gone
Vida Neuwirthová was born on 10 July 1962 in Teplice into the family of Vítězslav Mojše Abeles, a Holocaust survivor, and Vida Šimková. Her father told her the truth about the number tattooed on his forearm on her fourteenth birthday, thus influencing her future direction. In the 1980s, she founded the children’s theatre group Feigele at the Prague Jewish Community, which at the time was the only Prague activity intended for Jewish children. Vida Neuwirthová studied at a theatre faculty, then decided to become a puppeteer. However, the Czech public knows her primarily as the nosey princess Bosana from Werich’s fairy tale The Three Veterans. As of 2022, she has devoted herself to children’s theatre and guided tours of Jewish Prague and Terezín. She is the author of two fairy tale books for children with Jewish themes. In 2022 she lived in Prague.