Actors, singers and other personalities said goodbye to the entertainer Náhlovský in Prague
Updates: 04/14/2022 12:02
Released: 14.04.2022, 12:02
Prague – Actors, singers and other personalities said goodbye to the actor and entertainer Josef Alois Náhlovský in the ceremonial hall in Prague’s Strašnice. The mourning ceremony was held with great media interest. The second farewell to Náhlovský, who died on April 7 at the age of April 19 in the Church of St. Ludmila in Luhačovice. Náhlovský went to Luhačovice for treatment, and years ago he also bought a house there.
Today’s farewell was attended by actors Jiřina Bohdalová and Alois Švehlík, entertainers Karel Šíp and Aleš Háma, musicians Petr Janda, Jakub Smolík and Vašo Patejdl, hockey players Jiří Šlégr and Milan Hnilička or lawyer Tomáš Sokol. “I remember an explosion of laughter, it never spoiled any fun and it was very reliable,” said musician Karel Vágner, who was a colleague of Náhlovsky’s sports activities.
The mourning ceremony in the packed hall began with the song Nights in White Satin by the band Moody Blues. Then the family of Náhlovsky, Martin Plachý from Luhačovice, spoke. Náhlovský went to the local spa to treat his bronchi and five years ago he bought his own house there. “Pepa was a real ‘spa dude’, whose presence affected the Luhačovice guests like the local healing water as well,” Plachý said.
After Miroslav Žbirka’s composition What Hurts, It Hurts, moderator Aleš Cibulka took over the mourning speech. “You always made everyone happy, you gave out laughter, so you were saddened by the news that you were no longer,” he turned to the deceased Cibulka and accompanied his speech with a recording from the last Náhlovsky radio performance.
The farewell ended with Jiří Suchý’s song Na shledanou from the play Zločin v šantánu.
Josef Náhlovský was born in 1949 in Lom u Mostu, his original profession was a teacher. He graduated from the Faculty of Education at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, majoring in Czech and history.
He started working as a moderator together with Petr Novotný for the music group Fešáci. He later formed a comic duo with his acting partner and colleague Josef Mladý, and also collaborated with moderator and entertainer Karel Šíp. He is the author of a humorous theory about the fictional nation of the old Ore Mountains, which he elaborated in his book The Ore Mountains Chronicle. He also often referred to himself as the last living Ore Mountains. He appeared as an actor in Marie Poledňáková’s film How to Tame Crocodiles.
“Pepík and I have known each other for many years. He was a very educated and funny man and I am very sorry for him. Pepo, I will never forget you and I am glad that I was able to work with you and be on TV shows many times. Rest in peace and we will go for a beer somewhere up there, “the artist Štěpán Mareš, who illustrated, among other things, illustrated the Ore Mountains Chronicle, renewed on his Facebook profile.