Landsmannschaft honours Meeting Brno festival

At its weekend conference the Landsmannschaft, an association for Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after WWII and their descendants, awarded a human rights prize to the Meeting Brno multi-genre festival, which has spearheaded reconciliation efforts between the two nations.

Since 2016 Meeting Brno has organized an annual Reconciliation Pilgrimage commemorating the displacement of the German-speaking inhabitants of Brno after the end of the Second World War. Symbolically, the march leads in the opposite direction than in 1945: from Pohořelice to Brno.

At the conference, festival director Petr Kalousek reiterated his invitation to the Sudeten Germans to hold their next congress in Brno. He received a standing ovation.