- Ctibor Turba was born on October 16, 1944 in Marienbad, Nazi Germany [now Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Pet muzu a jedno srdce (1971), Giro di vita (2001) and Údolie vecných karaván (1968). He died on June 30, 2025 in Hamr, South Bohemian, Czech Republic.
- From the age of four, Turba performed in the National Theatre Opera, where his uncle and aunt were soloists. After the family moved to Brno, he played in a children's theatre group and exchanged the stage of the "Golden Chapel" for smaller roles on various Brno stages.
- In 2004, he founded the Studio of Clown Stage and Film Production at the Theatre Faculty of the Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts and led it until 2008, when it was taken over by the French dancer and choreographer Pierre Nadaud in September 2008.
- In 1968, he studied theatre science for two semesters at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.
- Together with Boris Hybner, he became a co-creator of a new pantomime movement in the late 1960s, which was different from the classic Marceau pantomime represented by the work of Ladislav Fialka.
- His work has been described as the first and pioneering Czech contribution to the global "Contemporary circus' movement.
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