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Sunday, 15th November at 8 p.m.
Cultural centre Dunaj, Nedbalova 3
Reflexion of the communist period up to the present days in literature, film, philosophy and journalism (guests from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Profiles of the guests:
Sunday, 15th November at 8 p.m.
Cultural centre Dunaj, Nedbalova 3
Reflexion of the communist period up to the present days in literature, film, philosophy and journalism (guests from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Profiles of the guests:
Peter Juščák (1953) / Slovakia
Writer and publicist. He graduated from the University of Transport in Žilina. He worked in various technical professions and in media. He was employed as a journalist in radio, reporter in the daily newspapers Smena and Sme, from 2004 to 2010 he was a member of the Radio Council. Since 2007, he is the chairman of the Community of Writers of Slovakia and in 2015 he became the editor in chief of the magazine Pamäť národa (The Nation´s Memory). For more than twenty years, he as the publicist has devoted himself to the theme of citizens dragged to the work camps called GULAG. His most important publications in this area are: Odvlečení (Dragged)- fate of the citizens of Czechoslovakia in the work camps GULAG and the novel... a nezabudni na labute! (…and do not forget about the swans!). He was also one of the authors (theme) of the documentary film Môj otec GULAG (My father GULAG). |
Lenka Procházková (1951) / the Czech Republic
Prose writer, signatory of the Charter 77, the daughter of the significant Czech writer Jan Procházka, author of the short story Ucho (The Ear) made into a film which became a banned film for many years. She published her first sketches in newspaper under the pseudonym Lenka Burianová. As a single mother, she finalised her studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University and at the same time she took care of her daughter Mária. She wrote one of her first novels Ružová dáma (The Pink Lady) under her own name. At that time she was already the signatory of the Charter 77 and therefore the book was not published. The novel Ružová dáma (The Pink Lady) was published for the first time in the samizdat edition Petlice, what had a fateful significance for her –she established a friendship with the writer Ludvík Vaculík who later became her life partner. After this samizdat publication the novel was published also in the exile publishing house Index in Cologne and was awarded the American Prize of Egon Hostovský. |
Andrzej Jagodziński (1954) / Poland
Philologist, diplomat, journalist and former dissident. In 1973 – 1978, he studied the Czech and Slovak philology at the University in Warsaw. During his studies, he started to cooperate with the Polisch and Czechoslovak democratic opposition. He participated in the work of the Polish independent periodicals, illegal publishing houses, as well as with the Czechoslovak emigration magazines in Great Britain, France and Germany. Besides his own texts and translations of Slovak and Czech books, he was also the founder of the Association of the Polish writers and he published interview with the Czech writers in exile under the title Vyhnanci (Expatriates). After November 1989, he worked as a correspondent for many Polish newspapers, he was the director of the Polish Institute in Prague and the cultural consultant of the Polish Embassy in the Czech Republic and he had functions in several institutes focused on the Visegrad bloc. Currently, he works as the director of the Polish Institute in Bratislava and the cultural consultant of the Polish Embassy in Slovakia. |
Christian Mihr (1969) / Germany
Director of the organisation Reporters without Borders in Berlin. Christian Mihr works for this non-governmental and international organisation since 2012. He deals with the issues of internet safety and right to free access to information. He is interested in particular in countries like Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, Belorus and Russia. Before his activities for the organisation Reporters without Borders, he worked, beside others, in the non-governmental German organisation Netzwerk für Osteuropa (Network for the Eastern Europe), as well as the head of the editorial office Euro|topics. He works in printed and online media in Germany, he is also active in further education of journalists and he works with the press and the public for development and political Think Tanks. Currently, he is the senior lecturer for further education of journalists, he lectures on the topics like regulation of internet and media at several universities. He studied journalism and American studies of the Latin America countries in the cities of Eichstätt and Santiago de Chile. |
Momčil Metodiev (1969) / Bulgaria
Editor in chief of the magazine „Christianity and Culture“ and a research worker of the Institute for Research of the Near Past. He studied history at the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He participated as an investigator in several Bulgarian and international projects devoted to research of the communist past. He worked also in a project about the history of the Cold War for the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington and he studied the archives of the Bulgarian communist party. He is author of many books: Between the Belief and the Compromise, 1944 - 1989; Machine for Legitimacy. The role of the Secret Service in the Communist State; Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Communist State. He also participated in development of several documentary collections of the communist past. |
Further discussions will be held after the theatre performances and selected movies.
You can get more information in the programme of the Festival of Freedom.
You can get more information in the programme of the Festival of Freedom.