Life should be simple, then it can be beautiful, we don‘t need millions
Ivana Jeništová, née Pírníková, born on 5 December 1947 in Prague to parents Karel Pírník and Jiřina Pírníková, née Havlíčková. Her father was a soloist at the National Theatre in Prague, her mother worked in the library and as a worker. Her maternal grandfather, Věnceslav Havlíček, was a writer and educator of Sokol. After the establishment of the Slovak state, he and his family had to leave Bratislava for Prague. As a former Sokol, he was followed by the State Security. After her parents divorced, Ivana lived alternately in Slovakia and Prague. She graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Graphic Arts in Bratislava. She devoted herself to tramping. She lived with her first husband Rudolf Grym in Ostrava, in the tramp settlement Bílý Blizzard, and was editor of the magazine Tramp. In 1972 she moved to Olomouc. During the normalization period she participated in secret meetings of Christians in Olomouc, they organized camps for children. She worked at Moravské tiskařské závody, after the revolution as editor of the Olomouc newspaper Hanácké noviny, correspondent for Radio Free Europe, manager of the restaurant U Jeništů, then as editor of Moravskoslezský DEN, press spokesperson for the Archdiocesan Charity Olomouc and editor of the Katolický týdeník. She and her husband Lubomír raised four children. In 2022 she lived in Olomouc.