Jan Werich
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Born in Prague, Werich completed secondary studies at a local gymnasium before enrolling in law at Charles University, yet he abandoned his legal training in the late 1920s to pursue the stage. His partnership with Jiří Voskovec and composer Jaroslav Ježek defined a decade of avant-garde, left-wing satire at the Liberated Theatre, drawing on Dadaist absurdity to critique bourgeois values and the t…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
