“While the Prague Castle, above, is a must-see for visitors, a bus tour of a variety of city sites known for corruption has been a growing tourist attraction, according to the tour operators.” >full text (c) NYT, 2013; photo (c) Mlan Bures, IHT
Archive for Prague
Guided Tour to a City’s Corruption
Posted in Uncategorized with tags corruption, Czech Republic, guided tour, Prague, tourism on 14 August 2013 by delclem“Scandal in Bohemia”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bohemia, Café Slava, cultural analysis, Czech Republic, politics, Prague, scandal on 10 July 2013 by delclem
The Absinthe drinker’s “temptress seems a fitting muse for a city where the absurdities of the public realm have often encouraged a retreat into the alcoholic and the erotic.” Very good article by one of the leading Bohemists of our day (c) NYT, 2013
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
Prague, Capital of the 20th Century
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, cultural history, Czechoslovakia, Derek Sayer, Prague, review on 18 March 2013 by delclem
A Surrealist history by Derek Sayer >review (c) ART DAILY, 2013
“A Personal Story of Remembrance & War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, interview, Madeleine Albright, memoir, Prague, USA on 17 March 2013 by delclem
Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson interviews Marie Jana Korbel(ová) – aka. the US ex-foreign minister Madeleine Albright – about her latest book, a memoir of her childhood days in Prague (c) ASPEN INSTITUTE / YOUTUBE, 2012
“The artist who would be president”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags arts, Czech Republic, Prague, presidency, tatoos, Václav Klaus, Vladimír Franz on 11 January 2013 by delclem
“It is impossible to miss Czech artist and composer Vladimír Franz in a crowd: the professor, who teaches Music in Theatre Performance at DAMU in Prague, is tattooed on all visible parts of his body, including his face and hands. Now Mr Franz is also one of the country’s most unusual – and most unexpected – candidates for president.” >text
(c) RADIO PRAHA, 2013
“A Requiem for Europe’s Worst Prejudices”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Czech Republic, gypsies, Music, Prague, prejudice, Riccardo Sahiti, Roma on 3 December 2012 by delclem
“The concert is sold out, and Maestro Sahiti’s appearance is met with a long round of applause. On the podium, he looks the musicians in the eyes, smiles, and they smile back. Nearly 10 years ago to the day, Sahiti founded the Roma and Sinti Philharmonic. It started out as a small project, which was hardly taken seriously. Now Sahiti stands before 60 musicians, from Germany, Romania, Hungary. All the orchestra members belong to the ethnic minority called Roma or Sinti: Gypsies; some of them have been abused, others bullied. At the Rudolfinum, they are playing for the public, but also for themselves – and against centuries of stereotypes.” >full text (c) SZ / Wordcrunch.com 2012
Districts: Karlín, Prague
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Karlín, Prague, urban history on 14 July 2012 by delclem
“The 8th district of Prague extending from the centre to the northern city limits has over 100,000 inhabitants. Apart from industrial estates in Bohnice and Kobylisy it has ten nature conservation areas. Slightly off the beaten tourist track and yet quite close to the city centre, the district of Karlín has undergone positive changes in the last decade. Its history and present status are examined in this article.”
(c) wieninternational.at, 2012
HHhH
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Germany, history, Operation Anthropoid, Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, Second World War on 27 May 2012 by delclem
“HHhH is Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘butcher of Prague’, a man who physically and ideologically embodied the Nazi regime. His immediate superior was Heinrich Himmler, and rumours were whispered in the shadows of the Third Reich that ‘Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich’ – in German, Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, or HHhH.
The book traces the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Anthropoid, the resistance’s successful plot to assassinate Heydrich in Prague, the city he commanded as Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. The two heroes of the novel are Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, the almost unbearably brave assassins, but Heydrich, in all his horror, is the central character. “All the characters are real. All the events depicted are true,” asserts the book’s cover. And hence Binet’s dilemma.” Read the full review in THE IRISH TIMES, 2012
PS. Heydrich was assassinated exactly 70 years ago.
>Another review (guardian.co.uk)
Umberto Eco: “People are tired of simple things”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Czech Repulic, Italy, Literature, Prague, review, Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Eco on 2 December 2011 by delclem
The author of The Name of the Rose on why it is human to lie, how Berlusconi has used conspiracy theories to stay in power – and Eco’s love/hate relationship with his most famous book. With a link to a review of his recent novel The Cemetery of Prague (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011
delirium clemens 