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Katarína Kolníková (* April 20, 1921, Radošina -- † May 29, 2006, Radošina) was a Slovak actress. Since 1971, she has worked in the Radošinsk naive theater. She acted in almost all of Stanislav Štepka's productions. She grew up in Radošin in a poor family of a railway worker. She had eight siblings. She went to school in her hometown. For a while, she worked as a seasonal worker on the bishop's property in Radošin, then for several years in Pieštany. In 1941, she married Michal Kolník from Nitrianská Blatnica, with whom she had four children. After 1945, when her husband left her, she was left alone with her children. Until her retirement, she worked as a school teacher and nanny in a kindergarten in Radošin. However, she sacrificed her whole life not only to children, but also to the theater. Already in 1932, she made her debut as an 11-year-old in the play Jezuliatko. After volunteering in the theater years, when she tried out her theatrical work in her native Radošina in the plays of Ferk Urbanek, Jozef Gregor Tajovský and Agá Christie, she came to the Radošinsk Naive Theater in 1971, where she formed and permanently defined herself in her first play, Človečina (1971) her stage appearance and acting and human philosophy written in a single word -- human. With her unique and unrepeatable personality, an unpretended poetic fluid entered the Slovak theater, the charm of the spirit of a simple, yet internally rich person. With Katarína Kolníková, a simple, recognizable human message about man and life came to the stage of the Radošinské Naiv Theater, a life message that is easy to read, understandable -- in short, human. She became an unforgettable icon of the Radošin Naive Theater and one of the most outstanding actresses not only of the Radošin, but also of the Slovak professional theater.