Petr Markov - Bibliography Scenarist, writer, playwright, journalist and lyricist. Member of The Czech Society of Writers (Obec spisovatelů ČR), The Czech Syndicate of Journalists (Syndikát novinářů ČR), FITES (Film and Televison Association), OSA (OSA for rights to musical works), deputy chairman of the DILIA supervisory board (theatre, literary, and audiovisual agency), member of the Board of Trustees of the Heřmansky Foundation. Petr Markov was born on 25 August 1945 in Prague. Graduate from FAMU (Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) and from The Department of Film and Television Screenwriting and Dramaturgy (graduation in 1971). Married, wife Dr. Jitka Markov Mildnerová, daughters Kateřina (1973) and Tereza (1976). 1971-82 worked as scenarist of The Barrandov Film Studios. Furthermore, with short breaks, freelance. 1995-96 he worked as a reporter for the Story magazine. In 1997 he became to a creative director of GHS Partner advertising agency. Three years lectured creative writing at Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy in Prague. As a screenwriter he’s the author of five feature films: How to Drown Dr Mráček or The End of the Water Sprites in Bohemia (Jak utopit doktora Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách; FSB – The Barrandov Film Studios Prague 1975 – hereafter “FSB” only), Sun, Hay and Strawberries (Slunce, seno, jahody; FSB 1983), Sun, Hay and a Couple of Slaps (Slunce, seno a pár facek; FSB 1988), Sun, Hay and Erotica (Slunce, seno, erotika; National film Prague 1991), Even Bigger Idiot Than We Hoped (Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali; B.o.s.k. Prague 1994). He’s also the author of a short story Candidate (Kandidát) that is part of a film consisting of three short stories Stronger than Fear (Silnější než strach, 1978). In 2008 he was the script editor of the film by the director Martin Dolenský Catch the Doctor! (Chyťte doktora!). He wrote altogether thirteen books, some of which were published in several editions: The first one was The End of the Water Sprites in Bohemia (Konec vodníků v Čechách; publisher Práce Prague 1980). Then followed the books Arabela (Die Märchenbraut - publisher Vgs Köln BDR – Germany 1982), The Flying Čestmír (Der fliegende Ferdinand - Vgs Köln 1984, in Czech publisher Dominik Trávníček Prague 1991 and publisher X.Y.Z Prague 2004), Arabela and Rumburak (Die Märchenbraut und Der Zauberrabe - Vgs Köln 1984, in Slovak publisher Pravda Bratislava 1987), in which he at the desire of the writer and scenarist Miloš Macourek transformed his successful television series into a literary form. Furthermore, Markov wrote a hundred and forty-page literary collage About Wine or Wine is Better Than Water (O víně aneb Lepší je vínečko nežli voda; Lidové nakladatelství Prague 1985 and 1987). In 1991, the 2nd edition of his book The End of the Water Sprites in Bohemia was published (Konec vodníků v Čechách, this time under the title How to Drown Dr Mráček, Dominik Trávníček 1991). Petr Markov, together with the director Zdeněk Troška, step by step transformed into literary form their films Sun, Hay and Strawberries (Slunce, seno, jahody; Dominik Trávníček Prague 1991), Sun, Hay and a Couple of Slaps (Slunce, seno a pár facek; Dominik Trávníček Prague 1991), Sun, Hay and Erotica (Slunce, seno, erotica; Dominik Trávníček 1992), that were afterwards published as a trilogy by Městské knihy Žehušice under the title 3x Sun, Hay… (3x slunce, seno...; Žehušice 2000). In 2011, this time under the title Sun, Hay, Troška (Slunce, seno, Troška), also the publisher X.Y.Z. launched it (Prague 2011). In Formát publishing, Markov published his books It Wasn’t that Way (Tak to nebylo; Prague 1997), Gossips from a Better Society (Drby z lepší společnosti; Prague 1997) and What Wasn’t in The Darlings (Co ve Zlatíčkách nebylo; Prague 2003). So far, his last book is a literary collage dealing with the prevention of cancer that was published by Epocha publishing under the title A Skeleton Came to See the Doctor (Přišel kostlivec k doktorovi, Prague 2005). Markov’s work has been very often tied with a musical expression. When the Žižkov Small Theatre brought on the scene musical From the Secrets of the Underworld Žižkov (Z tajností žižkovského podsvětí), to which he wrote a libretto and lyrics on the theme of the comic novel by Vlastimil Rada and Jaroslav Žák (music by Vítězslav Hádl), he was less than 20 years old. He graduated from FAMU with a musical libretto Despair after a Happy End (Zoufání po happyendu). On the theme of a famous comic novel by a French Author Gabriel Chevallier Clochemerle – together with the composer Jindřich Brabec – he made a successful musical Clochemerle (Zvonokosy, Karlín Musical Theatre Prague 1983 and 2001, The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava 2006 and in the meantime several theaters in Bohemia as well as abroad). In ČsTV, the director Jan Bonaventura shot the musical Clochemerle (Zvonokosy), as well as another Markov’s musical Million Love (Miliónová láska, 1988) made on the theme of a short story by Mark Twain Million Banknote (Miliónová bankovka), music by Zdeněk Marat. In the same television originated, in cooperation with the director Hynek Bočan, Markov’s three-part musical comedy Blow on My Strawberries (Pofoukej mi jahody, music by Karel Vágner). Together with the composer Zdeněk Barták, Petr Markov made meanwhile five musicals (libretto and lyrics). Musical One Night in Karlstein (Jedna noc na Karlštejně), which is a new original handling of a theatre play by Jaroslav Vrchlický, was released in November 2005 in the Těšín Theatre. In summer 2007, it was presented for the first time by Pikl Hluboká Theatre, part of which repertoire it is until today. Furthermore, Markov and Barták wrote a musical Playing with the Devil (Hrátky s čertem) on the theme of an eponymous comedy by Jan Drda (premiere on 27 October 2006 in Těšín). For the Polish scene of the Těšín Theatre, Markov and Barták made - on the theme of a famous novel by Jules Verne Arround the World in Eighty Days (Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní) – a musical W 80 dni dookola swiata (translated by Hanna Rybicka, premiere on 28 March 2008), that one year later (on 28 November 2009) introduced in Slovak translation by Daniel Hevier also J.G.Tajovský Theatre in Zvolen and on 15 May 2010 (in Czech, of course) J.K.Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. On 25 February 2010, their musical Baron Prášil (Baron von Münchhausen) was introduced in the Prague Hybernia Theatre – it was officially presented as An Unbelievable Musical (Muzikááál… k neuvěření). Their currently last musical is Casanova (Premiere in summer 2012 in Pikl Hluboká Theatre and on 23 May 2013 in Broadway Theatre Prague), with which the Pikl Hluboká Theatre also took part in, among others, the 7th DEAGU INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL in South Korea. For theatre and television he wrote several plays and fairy tales (e.g. Wandering Suitcase (Toulavý kufr), Matchmaker (Dohazovač), Roses for Pavlína (Růže pro Pavlínu), Lada, You’re a Princess! (Láďo, ty jsi princezna!), Square of Disappearance (Čtverec mizení), A Ruby Fairy Tale (Rubínová pohádka), Where the 55th Elementary School Has Gone? (Kam zmizela 55. ZŠ?). He was also a scenarist of the entertainment television programs The Darlings (Zlatíčka; Petr Nárožný in Nova TV 1998 - 2003), We Do Not Whistle on Girls (Na holky se nepíská, Czech Television - ČT), Sun, Hay, Helena (Slunce, seno, Helena, Prima TV 2004). Furthermore, he is an author of thirteen radio plays and around 450 lyrics. (The song Once My Children Ask - Až se mé děti budou ptát – recorded among others also the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias).