* 5. 10. 1936 Prague ✝ 18. 12. 2011 Hradecek
Writer and Dramatist; One of the first Spokesmen for Charter 77; Leading Figure of the Velvet Revolution of 1989; Last President of Czechoslovakia; and First President of the Czech Republic
Collection of texts from 1986 in which members of Kampademie association reacted to Havel's play Temptation. The book includes works of Ivan M. Havel, Radim Palouš, Martin Palouš, Daniel Kroupa, Pavel Bratinka, Helena Webrová and Zdeněk Neubauer. It is accompanied with contemporary transcription of interview Kampademics led with Václav Havel. Till now, it has been published only in Samizdat series Expedice.
„I don’t believe in that Fate at all and I think that in the first instance we are engineers of our own fate… After all, what happened did not happen because we are Czechs and Czechs always have to suffer at the hands of their neighbours (because that is their “Czech Fate”), but for quite different , more specific reasons.“
Václav Havel:
The Czech Fate – essay, February 1969
