Janko Kroner

This article is about a Slovak actor. For his father, see Ján Kroner.

Janko Kroner (born 1 June 1956) is a Slovak film, television and stage actor. Once a regular cast of the Slovak National Theater (SND) (1987–2009), Kroner began his acting career as part of the New Scene (1982–86). In the mid 1990s, alongside staging for his home theater, he gradually began appearing in a local VA-based ensemble called a.ha. In the most recent decade, he has been known as the frontman of the Malá scéna STU, a body supervised by Kroner through 2010-2011.^[7][8]

Janko Kroner
Kroner as Miňo Demovič in Profesionáli series
Born	(1956-06-01) 1 June 1956 (age 69) Považská Bystrica, ČSR
Other names	Króner (commonly misspelled)
Education	SPŠ, Považská Bystrica (1975)[1]
Alma mater	VŠMU, Bratislava (1982)[2]
Occupations	Actor host stage director
Years active	1975–present
Employers	NS (1982–86)[3] SND (1987[3]–2009)[2] MS STU (2010–11)
Spouses	Adriana Kronerová Lenka Košická ​ (m. 2002⁠–⁠2014)​ [4]
Children	Jakub (1987)[5] Paulína (2002)[6]
Parent	Ján Kroner
Relatives	Jozef Kroner (paternal uncle) Zuzana Kronerová (cousin)
Website	Slovak National Theater

As a member of the Slovak acting "dynasty" that span three generations to date,^[5][9][10] Kroner himself has received numerous nominations in his native country, including two LitFond Awards for Performing Arts in Drama, as well two television-focused OTO Awards as TV Male Actor, respectively. Amongst others, he is the only son of Ján Kroner, or rather a nephew of Jozef Kroner.

Filmography

I was a first-year student on elementary school in Považská Bystrica, when amateur actors came to our school to play The Salt Prince fairytale. My father played the King. He was very funny, I remember [that] all children would have a good laugh of him. So I'd wished for all the children to know [that] the King was my father. No one would believe me, though, and I felt too badly for that."^[11]

— Kroner on his first experience with acting, Webnoviny, 2010

Film

• 1982: The Emotional Education of a Daša (as Julo)
• 1984: The Brave Blacksmith (based on a Němcová's fairytale; as Matěj)
• 1984: Farewell, Sweet Slumbers
• 1986: The Edelstein Action (as Filo)
• 1986: Hothouse Venus (as Peter Vrchovský)
• 1986: Icing (as Igor Krška)
• 1987: The Devil's Smile (black-and-white; based on The Tales of Hoffmann, as Lt. Jurko)
• 1989: Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself
• 1989: Nebojsa (based on a Pavol Dobšinský's fairytale; title r. as Ondrej "Nebojsa")
• 1991: Fly of the Asphalt Pigeon (voice r., as Dodo)
• 1996: Jašek's Dream (based on a Chrobák's story)
• 1997: Orbis Pictus
• 1997: Blue Heaven (voice r., as Viktor)
• 2000: Victims and Murderers (as Josef)
• 2002: Cruel Joys
• 2002: Quartétto (as Peter)
• 2007: Half-life (as Viktor)
• 2009: You Kiss like a God
• 2009: BRATISLAVAfilm (as Milanko)

Awards

Chronological list of received awards and nominations

Year	Nominated work	Award	Category	Result
1995	Karate Billy in Return (by Pohl; title role)	LitFond Awards	Performing Arts in Drama – Male	Won	[12]
1997	Becket or The Honour of God (title role)		Performing Arts in Drama – SND	Shared┼
	A Crazy Day (by Turrini; as Count Almaviva)
2001	Himself (Various performances)	OTO Awards	TV Host – Children's Program	Nominated	[13]
2002				Nominated	[14]
2004			TV Male Actor	Nominated	[15]
2005				Nominated	[16]
2006				Won	[17]
2007				Nominated	[18]
2008				Nominated	[19]
2009				Won	[20]
	Marysha (as Lízal)	LitFond Awards	Performing Arts in Drama – SND	Shared┼	[21]
2010	Himself (Various performances)	OTO Awards	TV Male Actor – Comedy	Nominated	[22]
			TV Male Actor – Drama	Nominated
2011				Nominated	[23]
┼ The LitFond Awards are usually bestowed to a larger numbers of VA per category.

See also

• List of Slovak films
• List of people surnamed Kroner

Further reading

• Šmatláková, Renáta, ed. (2000). The Catalogue of Slovak Full-length Feature Films 1921-1999 (in English and Slovak) (1st ed.). Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovak Film Institute. p. 435. ISBN 80-85187-17-5. OCLC 47705882.
• Bakošová-Hlavenková, Zuzana (2010). "Ján Kroner". Elixír smiechu: Jozef Kroner a Kronerovci. Series "Osobnosti" (in Slovak and English) (1st ed.). Bratislava, Slovakia: Academy of Performing Arts, Theater Institute. p. 353. ISBN 978-80-89439-03-4. OCLC 714879495.