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We bring you another part of a memoir series, written exclusively for the Novy Cas (New Time; the most widely read Slovak tabloid paper) by the daughter of the legendary actor and writer Julius Satinsky (died age 61), Lucia Satinska (21).
Although the unforgettable actor left this world for good five years ago, his daughter still has a lot to say about her Dad. Today, she decided to share what she inherited from her famous father.
Many people ask me, especially after Dad's death, in what ways I am like him. Everyone expects answers like "I inherited acting, writing or comic talent." Unfortunately, I haven't noticed any of those in me yet, but I have noticed that, for example, I inherited eyes from Dad. Ever since my childhood, they would tell me that I have Dad's eyes, and he often bragged that his had a unique colour. I wouldn't know if he was not making it up, because when I was small, I would believe him that it's only us two who have that colour. But as I grew up, I noticed it at other people, too... For those, who haven't had time to notice, I will say that Dad's eyes were light brown, almost the colour of honey. Today, I often ponder, whether--together with the colour or the shape of the eyes--you can inherit the viewpoint. Sometimes I have no clue where some of my ideas, words, or points of view come from. Could it be the Dad's eyes? Dunno, dunno.
Last time I mentioned Dad's library. It was the most precious of the material things I inherited. At the time of Dad's death, it contained 2603 books. When I created a database from them in the following summer, I was surprised that he had presented some of them to himself, and he even signed some for himself. For example, by Hemingway...
The last thing I want to mention in this topic, is afternoon naps. I am afraid this is some kind of Satinsky gene that is passed even onto the spouses (I am sorry, I have no clue how to prove this scientifically). We simply have to take a nap every afternoon. Dad would allegedly even fall asleep on walks, even in thistle.
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#2: Lucia Satinská: Tatova sláva pre mňa nebola dôležitá
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Lucia Satinská: Dad's fame was not important for me
In December it will have been five years since the death of the comedian and writer Julius Satinsky. His daughter Lucia wrote a series of memoirs exclusively for the Novy Cas. In the third part she recalls how she started to realise her Dad's fame as she grew up.
At the time I started going to school, I started to realise something was not right with my Dad. All the kids made faces at him and took notice of him much more than of other fathers. First I was scared he was too fat, but then I realised it was just because one could see him so often on the TV or hear him on the radio.
More and more people would ask me: "So you are the daughter of Satinsky? How is it to have him at home? Must be fun, right?" And I only smiled. Dad was simply Dad--sometimes he was funny, other times, when there was a reasons, he would scold us, sometimes he was sad, other times happy. Just like other dads. And about people recognising him at the streets?
Well, when someone's father is a butcher or a doctor, his clients or patients also recognise him and the kids in school point fingers at them: "Look, this is the one whose father is a butcher; have you eaten his ham?" Or: "Hey, that's the doctor's girl, the one who did my appendix." That's how my father's spectators would point at me.
I only started to enjoy his fame in the last years of his life, when we started going to the Karlovy Vary film festival. That was a couple of days a year we enjoyed together. We would live in a hotel, let people take pictures of us, go to the best restaurants, and watch several films a day. It was always a beautiful experience; Dad would introduce me to his friends. But after those couple of hectic days, we would always agree that once a year is enough, and would be glad to be returning to the peaceful home of Dunajska Street.
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#3: Satinského Listy z Onoho sveta doručili na Zem
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Satinsky's "Letters from the Other World" have been delivered to Earth
What was he like? A heroic prince with good manners? An elegant man with a captivating smile of a defrauder? An unforgettable urchin with a sling in his pocket, or a wise sage, who can become quiet watching the world? - a friend of Julius Satinsky, and the author of his statue, Svetozar Ilavsky, asks rhetorically. And he goes on to recommend. Read...
For example a new book of a passed-away actor and writer, called "Letters from the Other world."
Greetings from the Giants
In [the book], you can find almost 100 short essays, fictional letters, which were supposedly sent to Satinsky by the giants of Slovak as well as international science, philosophy, or literature, like Denis Diderot, Jonathan Swift, Ludwig van Beethoven, or Margin Kukucin. But the author of all of them was Satinsky himself.
The book was collected by his daughter Lucia.
"Dad's archive was in a perfect condition, so it did not take much time--about two or three months--to select the texts. They are those written in the 90s, ones that had only appeared in the papers. Dad would be very happy to know that his texts are in books read by people. Who would search all the papers to find his essays?" - Lucia Satinska explains for Aktualne.sk.
Actor Become Writer
"In the latter stages of his life, when Dad's feet hurt and he did not feel like standing on the stage, he much preferred staying at home at his desk and writing," she adds, explaining that he sometimes preferred being a writer to being an actor.
Satinsky died in 2002, but according to his daughter, he left behind so much material, that more books can be expected.
"Julo was a phenomenon, an example, a person dearly missed. At least he wrote all these beautiful things and they remain," said the godmother of the book, the actor and a family friend of the Satinsky family, Zuzana Kronerova. "We never had time to finish some discussions. Perhaps up there. I can't wait," she adds.
Julius Satinsky published short essays in newspapers and radios for many years. The most famous were published in four books. After his death, memoir books called "I am currently dead, please call back later" and "Light-blue world" were published too.
His books are still selling well: more than 82,000 copies have been sold so far.
