Although she is not one of the best-known Czechs in history abroad, Milada Horáková has come to represent the sufferings of a great many people under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, especially during the 1950s. Milada Horáková was born in Prague on Christmas Day in 1901. After graduating, Milada married Bohuslav Horák, and joined the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in 1929. She later worked for the City of Prague, and Women’s National Council, preparing legislative proposals supporting women’s rights, such as the equality of women in society and social issues. With the Munich Agreement and Nazi rule, she joined the underground movement. She and Bohuslav were arrested on July 2, 1940; Milada was held in Prague’s Pankrác district for two years before being sent to the concentration camp Terezín. Although the Nazis used brutal interrogation methods, she did not reveal any information. Sentenced to death, then to life imprisonment, she was moved to one prison after another in Germany. In October of 1944, she was tried and sentenced to the death penalty, but a Dresden court changed the decision to eight years’ incarceration. When the US army liberated Horáková, she was in a concentration camp in Germany. In May of...
In this century, coronavirus will mark pretty big time in history and it has already resulted in many changes. In such “big times,” people get creative and come up with a whole new vocabulary that reflects their current reality. Such words can be found in Čeština 2.0. and now also in Vocabulary Miner Project Čestina 2.0 covering a variety of the modern Czech language with its slangs and new words has joined forces with Flashcard app Vocabulary Miner. They are bringing new words not only to Czechs but also to expats in two corona-themed Word lists that can be found in the app under the keywords corona or #sayMoreInCzech. “Language is like a fingerprint of a nation, it consists of everything and everybody,” says Martin Kavka, founder of Čestina 2.0. “Thanks to Martin Kavka, Čeština 2.0. mirrors the spirit of our times. Čeština 2.0 with Flashcard app Vocabulary Miner has created space to #saymore, as our motto goes, and to play with words and one’s imagination. Coronavirus affected everyone so we wanted to include expats because the life of the Czech language touches the lives of half a million foreigners in Czechia, too,” adds Zuzana Pápayová. Czech is playful,...
On May 25th at 20:30, the Czech start-up Artinii and Klub Lávka are organizing a screening of the film Owners on the Vltava. Viewers will enjoy the film directly from the paddle boats.
The Czech Senate condemned the crimes against humanity committed by Nazis during WW2 and the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire 105 years ago in a resolution on Wednesday, Ceske Noviny reports. “At its plenary session on May 20, the Senate of the Czech Republic unanimously adopted a resolution on the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the atrocities committed against humanity during the two world wars, including the condemnation of the Armenian Genocide,” the statement noted. The resolution was presented by Senate Vice-President Milan Štěch. In April 2017 the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament approved a resolution, condemning the genocide of Armenians and other religious and national minorities in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. About the Armenian Genocide The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust) was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government between 1914 and 1923. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Angora (Ankara), 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered....
Temir Asanov-Anglo American University It is commonly known that the word “robot”, introduced in the 1920’s play R.U.R., was the brainchild of Czech playwright and novelist Karel Čapek. However, in 1937, Čapek wrote another prophetic play, in which he described our current state of the world — a pandemic. Starring and directed by Hugo Haas, the film “Bílá nemoc” (“The White Disease”) shockingly resonates with the current era of COVID-19. Today, as scientists from around the world are involved in the fight against coronavirus, this film could be a source of hope for all of us. Beautifully shot in striking black and white, and with English subtitles, the film reflects our current anxieties, carrying a very real warning for our times. The film is about a nationalist leader, Marshal, who plans to attack a small country when a strange and highly contagious illness begins spreading through his nation. Originating from China, the infection turns people’s skin into white marble and kills the infected within three weeks. The disease only affects those older than 45 years, and it is so contagious that people are discouraged from shaking hands. This is hitting a little too close to home, isn’t it? This film...
The Prague Castle complex will reopen to the public on May 25, 2020, as part of a relaxing of anti-coronavirus measures. The interiors will be open daily from 10.00 to 18.00. The government had originally planned to open all such facilities on June 8. During the weekend from May 29 to June 1, you can visit for free: – Cathedral of St Vitus, Wenceslaus, and Adalbert (last entrance into the Great South Tower 20 minutes before the closing time) – The Old Royal Palace (including the exposition “The History of Prague Castle”) – Basilica of St. George – Rosenberg Palace – Golden Lane – Exhibition at Queen Anne’s Summer Palace In 2018, over 2.4 million tourists visited the Prague Castle and its St. Vitus Cathedral. Discounts are available for children under 16, students or seniors over 65, while children under the age of 6 and disabled people, among others, can have access the whole complex for free. Other state castles, and chateaux are opening also on May 25. Visitors will allow to enter the public buildings in compliance with strict hygiene rules. More information: [email protected], tel.: +420 224 373 238.
Today’s the 111th birthday of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the escape of 669 children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia in the lead-up to World War II. Nicholas Winton was born Nicholas Wertheimer on May 19, 1909, in West Hampstead, England, and baptized as a member of the Anglican Church by decision of his parents who were of German Jewish ancestry. He was a stockbroker by profession. In December 1938, Martin Blake, a friend and an instructional master at the Westminster School in London, asked Winton to forego his planned ski vacation and visit him in Czechoslovakia, where he had traveled in his capacity as an associate of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. This committee had been established in October 1938 to provide assistance for refugees created by the German annexation of the Sudeten regions under the terms of the Munich Pact. Convinced that a European war was imminent, Winton decided to go. In Prague, Blake introduced Winton to his colleague, Doreen Wariner, and arranged for him to visit refugee camps filled to capacity with Jews and political opponents from the Sudetenland. After Munich, Winton had been certain that the Germans would occupy the rest of Bohemia and Moravia before long. He...
The Drum & bass festival Let It Roll was supposed to take place at the beginning of August in Milovice, Central Bohemia. The organizers announced today to have moved this year’s edition to August 5-7, 2021. “This year’s summer festival was supposed to be the biggest in its history, and with this vision, the entire LIR crew has been working on it since last summer. We simply went “all in” this year because we wanted to prepare a festival you will never forget. We are all sorry that we have to inform you with heavy hearts that due to recent pandemic situation and official information from the Czech Government we are forced to postpone this year’s Let It Roll 2020 for the summer of 2021, specifically for August 5-7, 2021,” stated the official website. All tickets, including services or tickets won, remain automatically valid for the next year, and tickets do not need to be changed in any way. About Let It Roll Let it Roll is recognized as the biggest and most influential drum and bass music festival across the globe. As the fulcrum of the worldwide drum and bass, Let It Roll’s lineup represents the most important artists...
“Terezín became a victim of its own haunted past… with a future frozen in time like a soul trapped in the purgatory of history. Its collective memory would fade from a fortress of lies… to a city of ghosts.” – “Terezin: The Fortress Of Lies” Two expats, American Writer Rick Manore and Romanian Engineer Florin Radoi, were simply trying to occupy their time during the start of the relaxing of quarantine restrictions and decided to drive to the Garden of Bohemia to hike or explore nature, and maybe shoot some video with Florin’s drone. A stop in the town of Terezin changed not only their itinerary but in a way, their lives. Taken by the somber and lonely place, they began to quickly Google the history of a town with a very strange and dark past. “We just started shooting everything we could,” said Manore, the film’s writer and narrator, “then we came back the next week after doing more research on the Ghetto and the manipulative facade that the Nazi’s created with the town, and we started to put together a narrative.” They did it with no museum access due to the quarantine, and the thought of interviewing any...
The exhibition “Art Behind the Line” is the first project that shows Prague metro stations as a space open for contemporary art. The project was launched on May 11 as a cooperation between the Prague Public Transport (DPP) and the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) at four metro stations: Můstek (line A), Florenc, Náměstí Republiky and Karlovo náměstí on line B. The exhibition runs through December 31, 2020, and showcase 16 works by 8 different artists. Passengers can enjoy photographic works by Jiří Kovanda, Markéta Othová, Krištof Kintera, Timo, Lucia Sceranková, Ondřej Přibyl and the artistic duo Lukáš Jasanský – Martin Polák and Hynek Alt – Aleksandra Vajd. Guided tours are also being prepared for those interested in both the works and the history and architecture of the metro stations.
The winners of the 15th annual BBC Music Magazine Awards have been announced, with the Gabrieli Consort’s performance of Purcell’s King Arthur winning both the Opera Award and overall Recording of the Year. This year’s BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year Award went to American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who has had a triumphant year, appearing at the Last Night of the Proms and making her title role debut as Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera. Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek has won his very first BBC Music Magazine Award in the Concerto category for his recording of concertos by Dvořák and Martinů with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša (Supraphon label). Composed some 80 years apart, Dvořák’s Piano Concerto in G minor and Martinů’s Piano Concerto No. 4 ‘Incantation’ represent two cornerstones of Czech music. BBC Music Magazine is one of the world’s best-selling and most respected classical music magazines. Published in the UK, each issue contains the latest news from around the world, interviews with artists respected all across the globe. Every month fans of classical music eagerly await the decision of the BBC Music Magazine reviewers on which of the records out of the vast global production will be selected as their “Choice” in each category (orchestra, chamber music,...
On Tuesday, May 12, the National Gallery Prague reopens the following exhibition locations to the public: the Trade Fair Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, and the Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia.
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