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Exodus of East German refugees in Prague 1989 and its reflexion in the official newspapers in GDR and CSSR
Procházková, Tereza ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis entitled "The East German Exodus in Prague in 1989 and its Reflection in the Official Press of the GDR and CSSR" deals with the development of the East German exodus in Prague in 1989 and its reflection in Rudé Právo and Neues Deutschland. The objective of the thesis is to outline the situation in the GDR during the Honecker era (1971-1989) and to introduce the related phenomenon of occupation of German embassies in the 1980s. The following part of the thesis discusses the individual development stages of the East German exodus in Prague in 1989. The final part of the thesis examines the reflection of the refugee phenomenon in the above mentioned periodicals in the period of September 5 to November 7, 1989.
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The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne 1956
Veselková, Ivana ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Dimitrov, Michal (referee)
Diploma thesis "The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne in 1956" describes the process of making the united german team, which has begun in 1955 and which was . Thesis deals with the mutual negotiations of both olympic teams and also describes the goals, which the sport officials and politics were trying to reach during the whole process of making the united team. The next part of the thesis deals with the real experience with the united german team at the summer olympic games in Melbourne in 1956 and also tries to answer the question, whether in reality this united german team was not more or less just two autonomous teams, which only had a few visible symbolic things such as clothes and flag together.
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The role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the process of Reunification of Germany
Karnitskaya, Helena ; Šmidrkal, Václav (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the process of reunification of Germany" aims to analyze the position of the last Soviet leader in the negotiations towards eliminating the division of Germany into two German states - Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and German Democratic Republic (GDR). The work analyzes the changes in the Soviet-German relations after the election of Gorbachev as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This thesis focuses on the foreign policy of the Soviet leader inspired by the concept of the "New Thinking" and its influence on the fate of divided Germany. The greatest attention is paid to the attitudes of the last Soviet statesman in several aspects: the possibility of a German reunification, NATO-membership of the reunited state and the conditions of withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the GDR territory. The last part of the thesis is a reflection of the negotiations on the reunification of Germany in the Czechoslovak press (Lidové noviny).
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The Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on RAF
Matějková, Nikola ; Renner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Daňková, Šárka (referee)
The terrorist group Red Army Fraction ("RAF"), which jeopardized the public security with their attacks in West Germany since the seventies and killed more than three thousand people, issued a statement of official closure on April 20, 1998 after 28 years of its activity. This thesis tries to answer the question whether the fall of the Berlin Wall brought the final dissolution of the group. In addition to geopolitical changes it is also necessary to take into account the instruments of the national security policy and the split of opinion within the group. The geopolitical reversal in 1989 had two negative impacts on the RAF. Firstly it meant a devastating ideological defeat for them, even though the former GDR or any other Eastern Bloc country did not respond fully to their expectations. Another shock for them was the arrest of ten former RAF-members who were hiding in the GDR under a false identity. They eventually filed an extensive testimony, so that their sentences could be commuted. Federal Republic of Germany, which had not been too successful in the fight against terrorism up to this time, used the internal weakness of the RAF caused by political circumstances and it finally introduced new instruments to further destabilize the group and led to a rift between prisoners and members at large....
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The reaction of the Czechoslovak and East German leadership on the crisis of the 1980s
Chrpa, Jiří ; Kučera, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Tůma, Oldřich (referee)
This B.A. thesis called "The reaction of the Czechoslovak and East German leadership on the crisis of the 1980s" deals with the situation in Czechoslovakia and the GDR, two countries similar in many of their characteristics, in the period of 1985-1989, when these communist regimes were facing a crisis caused by a complex of economic, social and political reasons. Firstly the main three fields in which the problems of both regimes manifested are defined - economic difficulties, relation between the leadership and the society and the crisis of elites. The thesis deals also with external impacts affecting those countries, which include particularly the changes in the USSR after the emergence of Michail Sergejevich Gorbachev. Further it decribes the form of the reaction on the effects of the crisis and the measures taken in this context. While there occured limited reforms, concerning especially the economy, inspired by the Soviet perestroika for the first time in 1987 in Czechoslovakia, the reaction of the GDR mainly consisted of maintaining the current course and of the effort to gain financial resources to keep living standards. A major problem for both regimes in addition to the economic stagnation and the need to respond to the change of the course of the Soviet policy was as well the activisation...
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The picture of the GDR in German prose after 1989
Běličová, Alžběta ; Weinberg, Manfred (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
The work deals with pictures of GDR in German prose written after 1989 by authors coming from GDR and born after 1960. Literary pictures of GDR could be perceived as reflections of memories of individuals or as fictional images of this country. These pictures can't be compared with analyses researched by historians. The main aim is to show how these pictures create the collective memory of this state and how can the collective memory influences picture of GDR, that plays dominant role in today's German society. The case study compares nine literary texts and shows different aspects of reality of life in GDR. Humour and nostalgia were used as an important part of this picture. The comparison includes parallels and differences, in picturing this country, used by two last generations of authors in GDR.
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Book and its adaptation-Thomas Brussig "At the shorter and of sonnenallee" and the film "Sonnenallee" directed by Hausmann. Comparison
Bílková, Alžběta ; Haupenthal, Thomas Maria (advisor) ; Poimer, Christiane (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to confront the book "Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee" by Thomas Brussig with its filmization "Eastie Boys" by director Leander Haußmann. The thesis is divided into several chapters. Besides the summary of the story and the actual comparison, it for example deals with the individual producers and actors cooperating on the book or film. One can also find here information about the origination of the film and the book. In the appendix you can see some photos and film reviews. Key words: Eastie Boys, Thomas Brussig, Leander Haußmann, East Berlin, DDR, seventies, socialism.
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The Phenomenon of Ostalgie in the New German Federal States
Vágnerová, Vendula ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis deals with the phenomenon of ostalgie in the new federal states of FRG. This is a specific form of nostalgia for everyday life in the GDR, which became a basis for a retro style, later expanded into many areas of everyday life in Germany. To understand this nostalgia it is necessary to take it into context with the issues that the residents of the new federal states in Germany had to face. Ostalgie was a result of disappointment with the situation in early 90's, and therefore this paper firstly discusses the troubled process of German reunification. The central point of interest of this thesis are the different forms of ostalgie: so-called Ostalgie-Partys, the return of old East German products, Ostalgie on the Internet, its role in German film, so-called Ostalgie-Shows and another forms. The aim is to show that Ostalgie focuses on the culture and the everyday life of the GDR, and does not desire to return its regime. The work also points out the problem of differences between East and West Germans and depicts Ostalgie as a phenomenon that could be a support to German unification, rather than an obstruction.
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Opposition in the GDR and its Connection to the Czech Dissent. Mutual Contacts at the Turn of 1970s and 1980s
Procházková, Lenka ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Vilímek, Tomáš (referee)
Bachelor thesis Opposition in the GDR and its Connection to the Czech Dissent. Mutual Contacts at the Turn of 1970s and 1980s offers a new point of view on the oppositional movement in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, as it is based on the comparison with the oppositional movement in Czechoslovakian Socialistic Republic (CSSR). The work concentrates on the contacts between the representatives of the opposition from both countries and on the possible topics of their cross-border cooperation in the period between the Final Act of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975 and the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. Although the traditions of the East German oppositional movement were different to the traditions of the opposition in the CSSR, there were intensive contacts between both groups (usually individual) at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. One of the crucial topics of the East German oppositional movement was the question of peace. The space for moulding of the independent peace movement (and later also for other civic initiatives) was created under the protection of the East German protestant church, which was the only institution that was independent from the state structures. There was no such...
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East Germany press agency ADN
Francová, Pavla ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Trunečková, Ludmila (referee)
This thesis deals with the establishment and development of the East German press agency Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst (ADN). History and main development changes and tendencies of the agency are described here from its foundation in 1946 till the beginning of 1990. The chapter about cooperation between the East German agency ADN and the Czechoslovak News Agency CTK is part of the main body of the text about the ADN. The paper also gives a brief outline of history of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1945 till the end of 1989. Further, the view on the media sphere of the GDR and its main attributes and characteristics form a part of the paper. Regulation and control system of the media in East Germany in the second half of the 20th century is also introduced in this part.
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