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OTO Awards
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Osobnosť televíznej obrazovky, more commonly abbreviated as OTO, is a Slovak awards show recognizing the public figures and the work of popular culture in the country. Established by Art Production Agency in 2000, the television poll-based awards are voted on by the viewing audiences. The annual ceremonies of the accolades are screened live by the television network RTVS. The categories awarded regularly since, include Program, Actor, Actress, Male and Female Singer, Absolute OTO┼ • The overall winner with the highest number of votes per ceremony. Hall of Fame┼ • Honors individuals with outstanding contributions to the medium, plus 7 dní Award • A journalistic award formerly given by TV listings-devoted weekly EuroTelevízia, later by Život magazine. Note ┼ denotes a category awarded regularly since, the listed years are of television release, annual ceremonies are held the following year. Herman also holds the record for the highest number of wins per category. Including special achievements, Banášová lead with thirteen wins in total, besides, he is the only winner having scored at least in two categories per year, both the special and regular. The third participant with the highest number of OTO awards in general, is Actress Zdena Studenková with eight wins. Within multiple nominees, Žbirka himself remains the most successful to date, having earned sixteen nominations in a row to his credit and his runners-up are Sportscaster Lenka Čviriková with fourteen nominations, and journalists such as Zlatica Švajdová and Herman, the latter with thirteen nominating bids. During the first decade, the show attracted in average over 700,000 viewers per ceremony, subsequently held ceremonies marked the second highest numbers for the title as whole. The 9th and 10th season were watched by 731,000 and 778,000 people respectively, with the latter being televised on two STV sisters channels at the same time, Jednotka and Trojka. Since the 2010s, the format gains considerably less — roughly half a million audiences each year —. The 12th season of the TV poll, or rather the only aired on a Friday instead, produced also the lowest ratings ever for the program, peoples Choice Awards OTO Awards - Winners and nominees OTO Awards - Winners and nominees
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Slovak National Theater
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The Slovak National Theater is the second oldest Slovak professional theater. It was founded in 1920 after the creation of Czechoslovakia as a cooperative, between 1920 and 1945, there was also a musical ensemble. The Slovak National Theater has represented Slovak culture on its numerous tours abroad and it was created and, in the 1920s, also run by Czech artists. The first performance was the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana on March 1,1920, the ensembles were Slovakized only gradually. In 1932, the drama ensemble split into the SNT Slovak Drama Company led by Janko Borodáč, the Czech Drama Company ceased to operate when it was forced to leave Slovakia in 1938. Since then, the ensemble has performed in Slovak only. In recent years, operas have been presented in their original languages, initially, all 3 ensembles were active at the old Slovak National Theater building. From 1955 to early 2007, the company performed at the P. O. Hviezdoslav Theater. Since 2007, the ensembles perform only at the old Slovak National Theater building, the drama company was shaped by the directors Janko Borodáč, F. Hoffman, J. Jamnický, J. Budský, T. Rakovský, K. I. Zachary, P. Haspra, M. Pietor and the current one – Dušan Jamrich, the opera ensemble was led by conductors such as Oskar Nedbal, K. Nedbal, J. Vincourek and T. Frešo, and directors including V. Šulc and M. Wasserbauer. A great boom occurred after World War II, the SNT witnessed the rise of modern Slovak opera by Eugen Suchoň, Ján Cikker, Alexander Moyzes, Tibor Andrašovan, T. Frešo, and many others. Many singers from the SNT are famous abroad, e. g. Edita Grúberová, Lucia Popp, Peter Dvorský, R. Petrák, S. Kopčák, M. Hajóssyová, E. Jenisová, J. Galla, Jozef Kundlák, and many others. The ballet ensemble has grown from a group in 1920 to a huge ensemble today. It was opened as the City Theater on September 22,1886 with the opera Bánk bán of Ferenc Erkel, as a sign of this events importance Kálmán Tisza Hungarian Prime Minister and his all government, Mór Jókai took part on this ceremony. Gala performance was conducted by Ferenc Erkel himself, the original building was designed for 1000 spectators and was illuminated using 800 gas lamps, while the auditorium had a lustre with 64 lights. The interior was decorated, with frescos of by Pressburg/Pozsony native painter Kornél Spányik and by paintings by Munich artist Leo Lüttgendorf-Leinburg, the City Theater was hired by German and Hungarian professional theater companies, but beginning in 1919, it was used by Czech and later also Slovak ensembles. In 1920 it became the Slovak National Theater, the new building was constructed on the site of a previous Classic style theater built in 1776, the first permanent theater building in today Slovakia, which was demolished in 1884. Bratislava native sculptor Viktor Oskar Tilgner crafted the famous Ganymedes Fountain in 1888, the building has housed Slovak National Theater ensembles since 1920, but today only the opera and ballet ensembles are resident
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Bratislava
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Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia, and with a population of about 450,000, the countrys largest city. The greater metropolitan area is home to more than 650,000 people, Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia, occupying both banks of the River Danube and the left bank of the River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the national capital that borders two sovereign states. The history of the city has strongly influenced by people of different nations and religions, namely by Austrians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Serbs. The city served as the site and legislative center of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783. Bratislava is the political, cultural and economic centre of Slovakia and it is the seat of the Slovak president, the parliament and the Slovak Executive. It is home to several universities, museums, theatres, galleries, many of Slovakias large businesses and financial institutions also have headquarters there. The capital of Slovakia is the eighth best city for freelancers to live in, mostly because of fast internet, in 2017, Bratislava was ranked as the third richest region of the European Union by GDP per capita. GDP at purchasing power parity is about three times higher than in other Slovak regions, the city received its contemporary name in 1919. Beforehand it was known in English by its German name, Pressburg, as it was long dominated by Austrians. This is the term which the German, the pre-1919 Slovak, the citys Hungarian name, Pozsony, was given after the castles first castellan, Poson. The origin of the name is unclear, it come from the Czech Pos or the German Poscho. Hungarian speakers still use the Hungarian name, Pozsony, the medieval settlement Brezalauspurc is sometimes attributed to Bratislava, however the actual location of Brezalauspurc is under scholarly debate. The citys modern name is credited to Pavel Jozef Šafáriks misinterpretation of Braslav as Bratislav when analyzing medieval sources, thus coming up with the term Břetislaw, during the revolution of 1918–1919, the name Wilsonov or Wilsonstadt was proposed by American Slovaks, as he supported national self-determination. The name Bratislava, which was used only by some Slovak patriots. The name Pressburg was also used in English-language publications until 1919, in older documents, confusion can be caused by the Latin forms Bratislavia, Wratislavia etc. which refer to Wrocław, Poland – not to Bratislava. The first known permanent settlement of the area began with the Linear Pottery Culture, about 200 BC, the Celtic Boii tribe founded the first significant settlement, a fortified town known as an oppidum. They also established a mint, producing silver coins known as biatecs, the area fell under Roman influence from the 1st to the 4th century AD and was made part of the Danubian Limes, a border defence system
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Slovakia
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Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Slovakias territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5 million and comprises mostly ethnic Slovaks, the capital and largest city is Bratislava. The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries, in the 7th century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samos Empire and in the 9th century established the Principality of Nitra. In the 10th century, the territory was integrated into the Kingdom of Hungary, which became part of the Habsburg Empire. After World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a separate Slovak Republic existed in World War II as a client state of Nazi Germany. In 1945, Czechoslovakia was reëstablished under Communist rule as a Soviet satellite, in 1989 the Velvet Revolution ended authoritarian Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Slovakia became an independent state on 1 January 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The country maintains a combination of economy with universal health care. The country joined the European Union in 2004 and the Eurozone on 1 January 2009, Slovakia is also a member of the Schengen Area, NATO, the United Nations, the OECD, the WTO, CERN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Visegrád Group. The Slovak economy is one of the fastest growing economies in Europe and its legal tender, the Euro, is the worlds 2nd most traded currency. Although regional income inequality is high, 90% of citizens own their homes, in 2016, Slovak citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 165 countries and territories, ranking the Slovak passport 11th in the world. Slovakia is the world’s biggest per-capita car producer with a total of 1,040,000 cars manufactured in the country in 2016 alone, the car industry represents 43 percent of Slovakia’s industrial output, and a quarter of its exports. Radiocarbon datingputs the oldest surviving archaeological artefacts from Slovakia – found near Nové Mesto nad Váhom – at 270,000 BC and these ancient tools, made by the Clactonian technique, bear witness to the ancient habitation of Slovakia. Other stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic era come from the Prévôt cave near Bojnice, the most important discovery from that era is a Neanderthal cranium, discovered near Gánovce, a village in northern Slovakia. The most well-known finds include the oldest female statue made of mammoth-bone, the statue was found in the 1940s in Moravany nad Váhom near Piešťany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile gastropods of the Tertiary period have come from the sites of Zákovská, Podkovice, Hubina and these findings provide the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the Mediterranean and Central Europe. The Bronze Age in the territory of modern-day Slovakia went through three stages of development, stretching from 2000 to 800 BC
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Juraj Kukura
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Juraj Kukura is a Slovak actor. Kukura studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, since 1985, when he emigrated to Germany, his films were banned by the regime until the end of Communist rule in the 1989. Thanks to his personality he usually portrayed strong, leading characters. In 2004, he received DOSKY Award for performing Martin in The Goat, or, in 2003 he became managing director of Arena Theatre. Juraj Kukura at the Internet Movie Database
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13th OTO Awards
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The 13th OTO Awards, honoring the best in Slovak popular culture for the year 2012, took time and place on March 16,2013 on the New Opera stage of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. The ceremony broadcast live RTVS on Jednotka, the hosts of the show were Adela Banášová, television Music In the main categories, Ján Mečiar and Marcel Merčiak received two simultaneous nominations, respectively. Merčiak scored one win, having achieved two special awards as the first such recipient in the so far history of the poll. 2 nominations Ján Mečiar Marcel Merčiak The show has received an audience of more than 587,000 viewers. OTO2012, Absolútnu sošku má Merčiak, prekvapil triumf Bičana, majú Štefan Hríb a Róbert Bezák šance v ankete OTO. Absolútny OTO patrí M. Merčiakovi, v Sieni slávy je Magda Paveleková, Marcel Merčiak získal ocenenia OTO, Bičan porazil Rozborila. Ceny v ankete OTO2012 sú rozdané, OTO2012, Hilmerová prezradila, že bude mať syna Leonarda. Spoločnosť7 Plus, a. s. pluska. sk, anketa OTO bola dôstojná, kazil ju len nepatričný exhibicionizmus. Archive > OTO2012 – 13th edition Winners Winners and nominees Winners and nominees
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