Events: March 2012
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Havel’s “The Garden Party”
March 1, 2012, 19:00
A lecture by theatre studies specialist Lenka Jungmannová on the genesis of Havel’s first produced play, “The Garden Party” (1963), including presentations of five preserved versions (one newly discovered), the tracing of its motifs through the playwright’s previous work, and discussion of the influence of other theatrical personages on the creation of the play.
How to Find a Way Forward
March 5, 2012, 17:00
A public debate hosted by the weekly Respekt, this time on the subject “When There’s No Work in the Czech Republic” Guests: Škoda Auto manager Radek Špicar and Jana Hamanová, director of the SC&C polling agency. Host: journalist Tomáš Sacher.
Public Debate on The Subject: The Judiciary
March 6, 2012, 18:00
A debate between journalist Jan Macháček and Eliška Wagnerová, one of the last judges appointed in Václav Havel’s era, on the work and position of the Constitutional Court in Czech society. The meeting takes place on the occasion of the conclusion of her mandate as a judge and deputy chair of the Czech Constitutional Court.
Glorious Nemesis!
15/03/12 – 01/02/12
Ceremonial launch of the first English language edition of the novel “Glorious Nemesis” by Ladislav Klíma, a philosopher of “extreme subjectivism”, translated by Marek Tomin and illustrated by Pavel Růt. More
Czechoslovaks in the Gulag
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An exhibition by Adam Hradilek and Jan Dvořák on the fate of Czechoslovak citizens hauled off to Soviet concentration camps. The historians two interviewed dozens of former prisoners and gathered numerous materials from the archives of the NKVD, along with authentic items from labour camp life. Prisoners’ testimonies, photographs and artefacts from the camps are on display in this unique exhibition, which the Václav Havel library is running in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
Brno Literary Invasion
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Photographs from an evening of readings by Kateřina Tučková and Petr Čichoň, which took place at the permanent exhibition of the Václav Havel Library on Thursday 29 March 2012. The novelist Kateřina Tučková made a splash with the 2009 novel “Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch” (“The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch”), the dramatic story of a German expellee. The book took the Magnesia Litera readers’ prize in 2010. The author will present her freshly published novel “Žítkovské bohyně” (“The Žítková Goddess”), in which she traces folk magic in the White Carpathians, at the VHL. Petr Čichoň is best known as a poet. He will present his 2011 extensive prose piece “Slezský roman” (“Silesian Novel”) and the 2006 collection “Pruské balady/Preussische Balladen” (“Prussian Ballads”), which he has put to music, and other texts.