Slovak audiences enjoy acting Zdena Studenkova they have been enjoying for decades. However, few people know that in 1968, she was also with her mother in a short emigration in Vienna. She solved a dilemma abroad. Stay in a free country or go back home and study in high school. She explained why she decided to return to Czechoslovakia
“We came to that Vienna my mother had friends there and they gave us a small apartment right away. My mother had already arranged for her to get a job in a factory, but I already knew that I had been accepted to an art school and now I was watching it all there. We had an apartment which was a 3 bedroom which was generous for that size. We weren’t rich, we didn’t have anything exclusive, no inheritance, no furniture, but it had a certain elegance because my mother had taste,” the actress described their situation and continued.
“In that Vienna, I was in some kind of ‘kutloch’, some horrible apartment and all the Austrians, who were terribly old to me… Such peasants were terrible for me. Now I imagined that what? Will I be washing dishes in a kitchen somewhere? In the end, I forced my mother, in fact, I had been forcing her to do something all my life, so we returned from that Vienna so that I could go to school.” concluded Studenková.
She became an actress thanks to her grandfather Maroš Kramár
With a Slovak actor Studenková has known Maroš Kramár practically since childhood and later they collaborated on many projects on television and in the theater. “Zdenka played my lover, my wife, and even my mother in the theater. We have known each other, one could say, since childhood. I was 10 and she was 15 when we met. She studied photography with my uncle and used to come to our house. My grandfather (Ján Klimo, editor’s note) talked her into acting,” said Kramár for .
Although Studenková is one of the most famous actresses in Slovakia, she never wanted to be one. “The only thing I didn’t want was acting. I went to art school for photography, and at that time Mr. Klimo was there. Since I was from a poor family and my classmate was his son Martin, I went to take photos with them. Uncle Jano told me for four years: ‘Zdena, come here, I’ll teach you Slovak and you’ll be an actress,’ because I spoke Bratislava, but I still refused,” Studenková spoke years ago in an interview on .
