Marek Skála was born in 1990, and he has two brothers. He grew up with his mother and stepfather in Český Broth (Central Bohemia), where he also attended primary school and secondary school of economics. During his studies, he also worked part-time as a construction worker. During these times, he had many short romances with girls, drank alcohol, and spent three months as a homeless man. He coped with these times, and then he went to university in Pardubice (Eastern Bohemia) to study humanities. However, he was expelled from the university after three years. Then, he applied to the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University for contemporary history and at the same time began working in the wholesale of alcohol, his stepfather’s firm. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Humanities, he applied for an M.A. program in oral history – contemporary history at the same faculty. Today he is a doctoral student in Contemporary European Cultural History at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. He lives with a partner, and they have a small son, born in the summer of 2020.