Culture
-
New book of soldiers’ letters and memoirs brings personal account of WWI
One of the new books out marking the anniversary of the end of WWI is a collection of soldiers´ letters, diaries and memoirs giving a personal account of life in the…
-
Czech folk artist’s award from Vladimir Putin sparks controversy
On Sunday, one of the most famous Czech folk singers, Jaromír Nohavica, received the Medal of Pushkin in Moscow from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nohavica’s…
-
Exhibition highlights the best of Czech toy design
One of the many successful exhibitions marking the 100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia is Mini Wonders, which explores the evolution of Czech toy design over the past…
-
Food Film Festival gives Prague moviegoers a taste of science
The fourth Food Film Festival brought documentaries from around the world to Prague’s National Technical Library over the weekend. Morgan Childs visited the one-day event…
-
Pierre Pe’er Friedmann and the challenges of bringing Czech writing to readers in Israel
Pe’er Friedmann is currently the only active literary translator from Czech into Hebrew. It was his enthusiasm for Karel Čapek, the best-loved Czech writer of the 1920s…
-
100 years of the Republic - Dining at Prague Castle
Dining is one of the most important manifestations of material culture. At state dinners the quality of the porcelain and glass used represents a given state. On the…
-
Presidential vote and Czechoslovak past among themes at 22nd Jihlava documentary festival
This year’s edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival gets underway on Thursday. While the country’s top documentary event opens with a film focused…
-
Comic book tells tale of post-1948 Czech emigrés
Historians rarely publish comic books, but Martin Nekola is an exception. In cooperation with illustrator Jakub Dušek he has just published a comic book about the fate of…
-
NaFilM: Czech film students’ National Film Museum project set to premiere
The Czech film tradition dates to the very beginnings of the medium itself, and the country’s film archive is among the world’s oldest. Yet the Czech Republic had no…
-
Valuable Dvořák score comes home to New York
The manuscript of Antonín Dvořák’s famous cello concerto has gone on display at the Czech Centre in New York, launching a month-long celebration of the centenary of…
-
Karel Hašler, the man whose songs are engraved in Czech cultural memory
Karel Hašler, was a famous Czech actor, director, film producer as well as film music composer. But most of all, he was the author of more than 300 songs, many of which…
-
New film recreates encounter between Masaryk and Karel Čapek
Little over a week before the centenary of the establishment of Czechoslovakia, a freshly released film brings the state’s founder to the big screen. Talks with T.G…
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 170
- 171
- 172
- 173
- 174
- 175
- 176
- 177
- 178
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »