The town of Liberec in northern Bohemia is a special place. When you approach it on the motorway from Prague at first the outline of a mountain ridge appears with the silver tower of a television mast and a hotel on the hill called Ještěd, which belongs to the town. In the car you can then reckon for an hour what the weather is like down on the streets.
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In the woods on the border of the Czech Republic the Slovak social worker Ludmilla Irmscher battles against women traffickers, ignorant “customers”, insulted authorities and everyday naked violence. Sometimes she gives women who have been forced to become prostitutes a new life.
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The “Revolver Revue” was first published illegally in “samizdat” (self-print) in Czechoslovakia in 1985. This magazine for literature and art that appears four times yearly has managed to survive to the present day. We talked to Michael Špirit, for many years a member of the editorial staff and co-founder of the “Critical Supplement to the Revolver Revue” and known for his precise and critical reviews, about censorship, the shock caused by the political changes in Eastern Europe and the situation of literary criticism in the Czech Republic today.
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Svatopluk Karasek, who was born in Prague in 1942, was a Protestant pastor before he joined the wild Underground movement in the early 1970s and started to preach rock. He was forbidden to practice his profession, imprisoned and subsequently he emigrated to Switzerland. He has lived again in Prague for some time now and since 2004 has been the human rights commissioner of the Czech government. An interview with a wanderer between different worlds.
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And now listen carefully. The best part of a party is the moment when it's over. You go out, the clean air makes you a bit dizzy but you manage...
A short story by the young Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš.
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Czech products in the 1960s and 1970s between reform and normalisation.
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„Bis zu dem spannenden Ende, wo man sich entspannen kann,
lobt man ohne viel Umstände den blendenden Panenka“
(z autorovy kampaně při volbě nejlepšího fotbalisty Rakouska za rok 1983)
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The arrest of the rock group “Plastic People of the Universe” at a concert in February 1976 led directly to the formation of Charter 77. The Viennese author Sebastian Fasthuber and the former confidant of the band Abbé Libánský spoke and drank for Report with the two band members Jiří Kabeš and Vrata Brabenec in Prague.
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Jiří Gruša, a Czech intellectual, author, companion of Václav Havel, president of the International PEN club and director of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, explains what his generation has done wrong after 1989, why an East German like Angela Merkel has shrewder policies in the East and why Westerners do not want to take the slightest risk for the new European freedom.
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For a number of years now Česká spořitelna has placed the emphasis in its private sponsoring activities on the area of music. Vienna-based culture journalist Nina Schedlmayer talked to Jarmila Plachá, the new Head of Corporate Marketing und Sponsoring at Česká spořitelna, discussing the Stones after the revolution, student film festivals that run all night and jazz clubs in Prague.
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Viennese market researcher Rudolf Bretschneider, director of the Fessl & GFK - Institute, collects data about eastern Europe. What does his mountain of information reveal about the people in eastern Europe?
Florian Klenk in conversation with Rudolf Bretschneider.
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The ViennAfair art fair was celebrating its premiere this April. Over two dozen galleries from Eastern and South-eastern Europe have come to Vienna for this occasion. Nina Schedlmayer introduces six of the most interesting ones.
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Outline portraits of four members of the international jury for Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group of contemporary and modern art: Silvia Eiblmayr, Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipanić, Adam Szymczyk, Georg Schöllhammer
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Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group has been newly organized and is now monitored by a jury of international experts. Since 2004 greater emphasis has been placed on acquiring art from Eastern and South - eastern Europe, works dating from the sixties and seventies and, above all, contemporary works.
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About fifteen years ago in the former Czechoslovakia the era of the Samizdat became history. Until 1989, in most of communist Europe the writing, printing and distribution of literature had been suppressed or outright banned by censors.
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Every language has its own emotional code. Whoever can decipher the code of a foreign language can then understand the mentality and the culture of the people who use it. A literary essay.
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A portrait of the Czech artist Jiří Skála, who was taking part in the artist-in-residence programme of the Museumsquartier in Vienna 2005.
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Classic texts of post-modernism in Czech, lectures and workshops in Slovakia, discussions about nowadays in Vienna next year.
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Bert Rebhandl in conversation with Ivan Jachim, director of the film festival Finále Plzeň that shows annually all the feature films made that year in the Czech Republic, about the developments of the film scene in his country, its political origins and the involvement of the private economy.
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The current situation of the film scene in the Czech Republic.
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We introduce the people who devised this trans-disciplinary subsidy programme and those who organize and curate it.
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In tranzit to Vindicate Contemporary Art. A Comment by Vladan Šír
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The end of the year 2005 tranzit.cz organized its biggest and boldest event so far in the Czech Republic: The symposium "Authentic Structures" in Prague
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As the word itself implies, “tranzit” is the act of passing over, across, or through something. The word also refers to this process - “tranzit” as a conveyance, a vehicle for movement.
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For five years now the Prague and New York-based culture organisation, Tamizdat has been making a name for itself as a kind of central switchboard for labels, bands and distributors from the so-called Eastern European reform countries. What started off in 1999 as a non-profit making project has turned out to be so eminently suitable for development that one or two investors could potentially make a small fortune out of it.
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In its 59th year the Prague Spring Festival celebrates masterpieces of Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák with national and international luminaries. Prague remembers its place as one of the true Central European capitals and honours the beginning of a new epoch.
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In its 59th year the Prague Spring Festival celebrates masterpieces of Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák with national and international luminaries. Prague remembers its place as one of the true Central European capitals and honours the beginning of a new epoch.
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The contemporary art platform tranzit has been dedicated to forging art and culture networks between East and West since 2002. But who are the persons at the bottom of tranzit? Here we present a portrait of the curator Vít Havránek.
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