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Optimism at the time of fear and lack of freedom
Madlová, Ivana ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
The student attempts in her thesis to reveal the essential problem of the formation of public opinion, based on the example of the oppositional satirical magazine Der Simpl, that was published in Prague in the time of the expansion of nacism in Germany in the years 1934- 1935. The title of the thesis characterizes the effort the oppositional journalists in some kind of "emotional relief" in the time of intensified censorship and repression on one sinde, on the other side it is headed for the problem of creating media constucts with emotional aspect, on the side both system and opposition. The author tries to summarize the instruments of creation of the so called "optimistical illusion" in the society and the methods of their influencing the formation of public opinion. Based on the theoretical framework and the analysis of some caricatures, the student tries to demonstrate, in which way the oppositional journalist in Nazi era tried to balance the current issues. As the student summarizes in the final part of the thesis, satire and oppositional journalistics does not change very much in the human life. We are pleased to laugh about them, but we do not change our lives because of them. In spite of her own conviction about the fundamental importance of politics in the everyday life of democratic...
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Central Europe as an ideal space (illustrated with the works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Libuše Moníková)
Pelíšková, Klára ; Zelená, Alena (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
This bachelor's thesis addresses the topic of myths occuring in the Central European literature. It focuses on two particual myths, the Habsburg Myth and Bohemia lying by the sea, and on the way these myths are used in the literary works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Libuše Moníková, two German-language authors of the second half of the twentieth century. The first section of the thesis includes a chapter that discusses the ambiguity of Central Europe and another one that introduces the theory of myth. The second section offers a general characteristic of the Habsburg myth and the myth of Bohemia on the sea and it describes the historical context of their origins as well as their development and variations throughout the time. Based on the analyse of selected works of Bachmann and Moníková, the author of this thesis seeks to define the function the researched myths fulfil and to expose the potential parallels between them. She also examines the connection between the specific form of the myths in the analysed works and the historical and political circumstances of the time these works were written. The thesis concludes with comparison of both researched myths as well as their adaptations in the works of Bachmann and Moníková.
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Optimism at the time of fear and lack of freedom
Madlová, Ivana ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
The student attempts in her thesis to reveal the essential problem of the formation of public opinion, based on the example of the oppositional satirical magazine Der Simpl, that was published in Prague in the time of the expansion of nacism in Germany in the years 1934- 1935. The title of the thesis characterizes the effort the oppositional journalists in some kind of "emotional relief" in the time of intensified censorship and repression on one sinde, on the other side it is headed for the problem of creating media constucts with emotional aspect, on the side both system and opposition. The author tries to summarize the instruments of creation of the so called "optimistical illusion" in the society and the methods of their influencing the formation of public opinion. Based on the theoretical framework and the analysis of some caricatures, the student tries to demonstrate, in which way the oppositional journalist in Nazi era tried to balance the current issues. As the student summarizes in the final part of the thesis, satire and oppositional journalistics does not change very much in the human life. We are pleased to laugh about them, but we do not change our lives because of them. In spite of her own conviction about the fundamental importance of politics in the everyday life of democratic...
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The role of partial incubation in birds
Březinová, Monika ; Javůrková, Veronika (advisor) ; Sedláček, Ondřej (referee)
It was documented that many species of birds incubate their clutch before the clutch completion. This behaviour called partial or intermittent incubation usually takes only few hours per day. Eggs in clutch are from the time of laying until the time of full incubation exposed to many negative environmental factors and disturbances. These factors may reduce the viability of the embryo and brood survival. It is therefore predicted that birds use partial incubation as a protection against these negative factors. Most probable functions of partial incubation are a protection against clutch predation, intraspecific and interspecific brood parasitism, and antimicrobial actions linked with reduction of potentially harmful microorganisms on the eggshells and/or activation of proteins with antimicrobial potential in egg's yolk and albumen. This bachelor thesis summarizes overall knowledge of partial incubation, with special emphasis on its incidence and functions in birds. Moreover, this thesis reviews the problematics of synchronous and asynchronous hatching of partially incubated clutches. Although, based on literature review, partial incubation has strong impact on overall reproduction success in birds, study of this incubation behaviour is still neglected and more attention should be paid on comparative...
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Non-institutionalized political Protest in the GDR and the East Germany: from Montagsdemonstrationen till left- and rightwinged extremism
Fridrich, Tomáš ; Březinová, Monika (advisor) ; Kučera, Jaroslav (referee)
This paper deals with the non-institutionalised political protests in the new federal states beginning of the 1990s. Starting point are the vast experiences, that the population had made with such kinds of demonstrations (massdemonstration of 1989). The paper wants to answer questions with the help of specialist literature dealing with the influence of these experiences on the possibly later non- institutionalised protest and furhter, what kinds of protests one can observe in Eastern Germany during the beginning of the 90s. The 1989-experience is only briefly mentioned in this paper, the core is formed by the analysis of the different non- institutionalised political protest reforms in the new states. The most numerous form of protest appears to be the left- and rightwinged extremism. This paper follows the development which has amounted during the 1990s and mentions certain cases that are connected with extremism. The chapter concerned with rightwinged expremism also deals with its roots of origin that go back to the 1980s. The up-to-dateness of this topic is determined in the last chapter which is concerned with the medial repercussion in the Czech press (journal Respekt).
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Construction of Emperor Wilhelm II. after the reunification of Germany
Doležal, Tomáš ; Březinová, Monika (advisor) ; Rak, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Constructs of the Emperor Wilhelm II. after the year 1990" deals with different theoretical ways of interpretation of the emperor's person, published after the year 1990. The main source for this thesis is the classification, made by Wolfgang J. Mommsen in 1990 in one scientist article. Mommsen defined three different categories, in which the literature can be subsume in. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to verify the validity of the Mommsen's classification for books of different authors, written after the year 1989. The thesis is a historiographical analysis of chosen boooks from chosen authors. The thesis concludes that Mommsen's classification could be applied to chosen literature, but not unreservedly. The thesis modifies the original classification a defines two new categories, which can be used by evaluation of the books about Wilhelm II.
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Christa Wolf and her book "Was bleibt" as a beginning of German-German literary confrontation and the reflexion in selected Czech media.
Bláhová, Jana ; Březinová, Monika (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
Aim of the thesis "Christa Wolf and her work "What Remains" as a start of German-German literature dispute and its resonance in the chosen Czech media" is to describe reception of the book "Was bleibt" from Christa Wolf accenting the socio-political context at the time of its publication and the immediate origination of the literature dispute between East and West Germany. Thesis discusses the grounds which led to begin of the dispute, as well as the process of the dispute and its main actors. Moreover, importance of the dispute and role of Christa Wolf and her work "Was bleibt" is sought. The first two chapters serve as an introduction to the literature dispute, where the first one concentrates more on the life and both social and political engagement of Christa Wolf, and the second one deals with her fundamental work "Was bleibt" and its context in the political situation at that time. The main part of the thesis discusses public responses to publication of the "Was bleibt", the origin and the process of the German-German literature dispute. Critiques of West German feulletonists, which started the literature dispute, are investigated in this part of the thesis too. The last chapter then addresses resonance of the dispute in selected Czech literary papers and magazines.
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Discussion about Wilhelm II. after the year 1945 and his onus for the First World War
Doležal, Tomáš ; Březinová, Monika (advisor) ; Rak, Jiří (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is the person of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II, who was considered very controversial even during his lifetime and opinions on him varied greatly. A particular point of interest of many experts was and is especially the question of Wilhelm's II share of the blame for starting the First World War. This thesis is a historiographical analysis pursuing interpretations of Kaiser Wilhelm II in relation to the events before 1914 in selected titles by leading authors concerned with this issue. The aim of this thesis is evaluating the development of the discussion on Kaiser Wilhelm II after 1945, when a vigorous debate on the topic of Wilhelm II and his guilt on World War I gradually sparked in expert circles. The output of the thesis is a summary of main interpretation streams of the selected authors as well as the monitoring of changes in the opinions on the last German Emperor after 1945 and determining the distinctiveness of this changes. While the question of the guilt on World War I was very damped shortly after 1945, it was reopened over time and an ever more active discussion took place, though being slightly damped again in recent times.
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