Gabriela Preissová, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gabriela Preissová

Czech writer

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1862

Place of Birth: Kutná Hora, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1946

Profession: writer, playwright

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Gabriela Preissová, née Gabriela Sekerová, sometimes used pen name Matylda Dumontová (23 March 1862 in Kutná Hora – 27 March 1946 in Prague), was a Czech writer and playwright.
Her play Její pastorkyna was the basis for the opera Jenufa by Leoš Janácek, as well as a film by Miroslav Cikán.
His earlier opera The Beginning of a Romance was also based on one of her stories. Preissová mostly wrote stories full of optimism and the joy of life idealising village life.
Her stories first appeared in the early 1890s.
The more significant appeared in a three-volume collection.
Her books, written in the 1920s, were about the tragic rural life of the Carinthian Slavs, usually with a strong woman as a heroine.
These dramas didn't achieve the artistic spontaneity of her early work.
Themes of her stories were mostly the affairs of young lovers and the obstacles to their consummation.
Some tales were set to music, such as Eva by Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Jenufa, an opera by Janácek.



Alternative names	Jan Vilimek
Description	Austrian-Czechoslovak portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1 January 1860	15 April 1938
Location of birth/death	Žamberk	Vienna
Work location	Prague, Vienna
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