Avia stood in front of the theater, and when we got out they took a picture of us through the window
Pavel Hekela was born on 3 March 1954 in Přerov. He came into the world as the younger of two children, Ladislav and Jiřina. The family lived in Krapkova Street in Prostejov. Both his parents died in his childhood. After graduating from high school he studied at the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague in the field of acting. He then worked in the Oldřich Stibor Theater in Olomouc (today the Moravian Theater) and then in a number of other theater engagements as an actor and later also as a director. He has worked mainly in Olomouc and Šumperk, but has also guested in Prague, Brno, České Budějovice or Hungary in Szeged and Pécs. In 1978 he married Chrisula Kazanzi and together they raised their two children Matthew and Martin. During the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he took part in a theater strike in Olomouc and organized discussion evenings at which experts discussed various topics. After the fall of the Communist regime, he co-owned the Olomouc recording studio Gulliver as a lecturer of moderators and later the director worked in the private radio Pohoda. In 2000–2013 he was the director of the Czech Radio Olomouc and in 2013–2018 he was the director of the Moravian Theater Olomouc.
