Nora Houfová

In 1954, she joined the German troupe of the State Touring Theater in Prague-Hloubětín and worked there until its disbandment in 1962. At that time, the troupe toured the border region, the former Sudetenland, where it played for German-speaking residents. Nora's colleagues were, the later well-known director Otto Ševčík, Jindřich Narenta, František Pálka, Lenka Birková and others.^[5]

In 1960 she played in Jiří Krejčík's film Higher Principle^[6]  and in 1962 in Jiří Lehovec's drama Mykoin PH 510. After returning to Vienna in May 1963, she continued to work in theater and film. In 1999, she played a supporting role in one episode of the crime TV series Tatort. She was active in the theater until 2011.^[7][8]

In Karlovy Vary Nora met the photographer Jaroslav Houf^[9] and married him in November 1948. The wedding was conceived in a grand style with the participation of the townspeople, which did not quite fit in with the newly introduced order. Jaroslav continued to work as a private photographer and refused the offered position of chairman of the Fotografia cooperative, which was established in 1950.^[10] Two sons were born to the couple, Kristian in 1949 and Marcel two years later. In the turbulent post-February period, the peculiar photographer Houf became uncomfortable, in December 1953 he was arrested and in April 1954 he was sentenced to four and a half years of labor in the mines in the prison in Rtyn in Podkrkonoší. His sentence was later reduced, and after his release in 1957, the Houfs divorced.^[11][12]

In 1964, Nora married Vladimír Švancar, after changing his last name, which was not very suitable for a German-speaking environment to Vladimír Car. Her son Marcel died in 2022^[13] She retired from acting in 2018 and resided in Vienna, where she died on 29 May 2024, at the age of 99.^[14]