It was a beautiful sunny day. Then the bombs began to fall
Hana Lamková was born on April 11, 1934 in Prague in the family of Václav Ryšánek, an accountant at the Šolc a Šimáček publishing house, and his wife Ludmila, who worked as a teacher before she got married. Since her childhood she inclined to the theater. She often attended the Puppet Theater of Art Education and performed in Disman‘s children‘s radio ensemble. In February 1945, she witnessed bombing in Riegrovy sady in Vinohrady, of which she has retained very vivid memories. Her father and brother took part in the construction of barricades in the streets of Vinohrady during the Prague Uprising. She graduated from the Puppetry Department at DAMU and worked with her husband Josef Lamka for puppet theater, black theater and animated film. She is the author of many comic stories published in the magazine Čtyřlístek.