After the Velvet Revolution, she traded a comfortable apartment for life in an open-air museum
Stáhnout obrázek
Jarmila Mikešová, maiden name Sedláčková, was born on 11 April 1954 in Kolín. Her father, Antonín Sedláček, came from Bethlehem in Hlinsko and in the early 1950s served in the army in Kolín. There he met Alena Lahodová, married her and their daughter Jarmila was born. When Jarmila was one year old, the whole family moved to Bethlehem. Jarmila Mikešová spent her entire childhood in Bethlehem. After training as a painter in Hradec Králové, she married and had two sons. At first she took up a trade, but the conditions were not suitable in Hlinsko, so she started working at the local Elektro-Praga factory, where she stayed until her retirement. In adulthood she lived for years in an apartment on a housing estate. However, when her father bequeathed her the original cottage in Bethlehem, where she had spent part of her childhood, she did not hesitate to return to the house. She was one of the few in all of Bethlehem living there with her family at the time of the filming in 2023.
