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09/18/2023
Students from a German secondary school are to perform the children’s opera Brundibár at the former Terezín ghetto in Bohemia, 80 years after it was first staged by Jewish inmates there during World War II, a spokesperson for the Terezín Memorial said on Monday. Interest in the event is great and few spaces remain for the event at the Magdeburg Barracks.
Brundibár, which was written by Hans Krása, was first performed on September 23, 1943.
The school company and orchestra from Germany’s Wülfrath have already staged the children’s opera elsewhere, including in Israel with survivor Zvi Cohen, who took part in it in Terezín during the Holocaust.
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09/18/2023
While countries on the outer edge of the EU’s Schengen Zone are banning the entry of cars with Russian license plates, Czechia only has an “air border” with Russia and a ban on flights from the country is already in effect, the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said on Monday.
Poland prohibited cars with Russian registration from entering the country at the weekend, following similar moves by Finland and the Baltic States.
Mr. Rakušan told reporters that the Czechs had brought in a ban on Russians with Schengen visas at its airports. He said his government had been the first to suspend the issuance of visas to Russian citizens, the day after the full invasion of Ukraine began.
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09/18/2023
Construction work on a new CZK 6 billion multi-functional hall in Brno began on Monday. The hall, located at the site of the Brno Exhibition Centre, will have a capacity of 13,000. It will be used by the city’s Kometa ice hockey club but will also host a range of other events.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in Brno on Monday that the project showed that the city had major ambitions.
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09/18/2023
Some 14 percent of nurses in Czechia are aged 60 or over, says the head of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics. Ladislav Dušek made the comment at a meeting of health sector trade unions on Monday.
At present there is a shortage of around 2,000 nurses in the field of acute and long-term care. However, with the aging population, far more nurses will be required in future, Mr. Dušek said.
There are around 84,000 nurses in Czechia.
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09/18/2023
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has risen to 10th in the women’s singles world rankings. The 27-year-old – whose career-best placing was second – climbed three places after winning the San Diego Open on Sunday.
Krejčíková also lifted the women’s doubles title in San Diego and her partner Kateřina Siniaková has returned to number one in the doubles rankings.
The top ranked Czech woman in singles is Markéta Vondroušová, who is sixth.
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09/18/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be sunny.
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09/18/2023
The Northwest Bohemian town of Žatec and its surrounding hop-growing landscape have been granted UNESCO World Heritage status. Monday’s announcement means that Czechia now has 17 entries on the prestigious list.
Žatec, known in German as Saaz, is internationally famous for growing high-quality Saaz hops. It has seven centuries of tradition in the field and is responsible for a large part of Czechia’s total hop production.
World Heritage Sites are selected by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance.
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09/18/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský landed on American soil on Sunday evening for the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, which starts on Monday. Mr Pavel is leading the Czech delegation at the General Assembly for the first time since taking office. It will also be the first time a Czech president has addressed the assembly in six years, as since 2017 Czechia has been represented at the UN by either the prime minister or the foreign minister, rather than the president.
The main topics at the assembly are expected to be the war in Ukraine and climate change. Mr Pavel is due to give a speech on Monday at a summit about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and again as part of the General Debate of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Mr Lipavský will deliver a speech regarding the upcoming Summit of the Future.
President Pavel also has about a dozen bilateral meetings planned on the sidelines of the assembly, including with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and Liechtenstein's Grand Duke Hans Adam II.
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09/18/2023
A short animated film by Daria Kashcheeva, a student of Prague’s Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), has won the Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. Her film Electra, which doubles as her master’s thesis project, explores the ramifications of a father's absence with regard to his young daughter's psychological, emotional, and sexual development.
Kashcheeva previously won a student Oscar in 2019 for her short animated film Daughter, which was also nominated for Best Animated Short at the American Academy Awards and was shown in Short Cuts at the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year.
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09/17/2023
Around 185,000 people attended NATO Days over the course of the weekend, around 75,000 more than last year, the Czech News Agency reports. Around 100,000 attended on Saturday and 85,000 on Sunday.
The event, taking place at Ostrava’s Mošnov Airport, is the biggest air, military and security show in Central Europe.
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