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Regional identity: The Role of the Czech Republic and Poland in maintaining Sorbian identity
BARÇON, Maëla
This master thesis focuses on the Sorbs, a small Slavic minority living in Lusatia, Germany. The Sorbs are only 60 000, and their identity is currently threatened. This research aims at knowing to what extent the Czech Republic and Poland, as Slavic neighbours, can help the Sorbs maintain their identity. 6 semi-structured interviews were conducted with Sorbian, Czech, and Polish people. Several topics were addressed: the Sorbian identity, the personal experiences with the Czech Republic and Poland, the Sorbian-Czech and Sorbian-Polish relations as well as the Sorbs' relations with Germany. The results show that Sorbian identity is highly threatened and provide a state of play of the current Sorbian-Czech and Sorbian-Polish relations. Finally, the role that the Czech Republic and Poland could have in maintaining Sorbian identity in the coming years was discussed.
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Activities of the Public Library Varnsdorf in the area of The Lusatia culture
Chalupná, Vladimíra ; Slámová, Hana (advisor) ; Buřilová, Marcela (referee)
7 Abstract The bachelor theses deals with the cooperation of Lusatia and the Czech Republic. It focuses mainly on the cooperation of Lusatia and town of Varnsdorf and with the Varnsdorf public library. There is a brief description of Lusatia and Lusatian Sorbs. Then follows presentation of development of the cooperation of the Czech Republic and Lusatia, beginnings of the cooperation of Varnsdorf are mentioned as well as specific examples of activities and organizations. The bachelor theses focuses on activities of Varnsdorf public library which has long lasting history of cooperation with Lusatian Sorbs. Therefore a brief history of the library and description of its departments is a part of the theses. Next, the theses describes history and activities of the library concentrating on Lusatian Sorbs including three year project of the public library called "Varnsdorf public library - Meeting over the border ". For practical part of the theses was chosen questionnaire survey with two independent questionnaires, one for Varnsdorf library members and second for North Bohemian libraries members. Both questionnaires listed questions about the knowledge of Lusatia, Lusatian Sorbs and activities with lusatiasorbian topics. Questionnaires were in a graph form and their results are described and evaluated. Keywords:...
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The Lusatian Sorbian Grammar Schools in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War
Juricová, Vladimíra ; Váňová, Růžena (advisor) ; Valenta, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the history of Lusatian Sorbian grammar schools in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. The grammar schools existed in Česká Lípa, Varnsdorf and Liberec from 1945 to 1950. It also outlines the history of Lusatian Sorbs to the post-war period and describes the meaning of the Czech help for Lusatian Sorbian schools in the historical situation of the rise of German Nazism in 1933 and the complicated situation in Lusatia after 1945. Including the chapter about destinies of former Lusatian Sorbian students. Key words Lusatia, Lusatian Sorbs, grammar school, 1945 - 1950
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Lusatia in the Plans of building the New Czechoslovakia great expectations and early disillusionment of the Czech Slavistis
Chodějovský, Jan ; Kvaček, Robert (advisor) ; Harna, Josef (referee) ; Kaleta, Petr (referee)
Lusatia in the plans of building the new Czechoslovakia. Great expectations and early disillusionment of the Czech Slavists. During the Great War, especially in the last year of the war, a number of representatives of Czech political and cultural life reflected upon an idea of a renewal of the Czech state in a historical borders of the former Czech crown lands. The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on October 28, 1918, by the Czechoslovak National Council in Prague. Only several years before, an independent Czechoslovakia had been a dream of a small number of intellectuals and politicians. The transformation of the dream into reality was a formidable task. While the creation of Czechoslovakia was based on certain historical precedents, it was, nevertheless, a new country carved out of disparate parts of the old Hapsburg Empire. This study deals with the matter of how Czechoslovak scientists, first of all slavists, intervened in the forming of Czechoslovak political programme. Slavists' role in the communal life of Czechoslovakia has been transforming due to changes that took place in both local and international politics. For a long time before they had no chance to participate at official state politics as there was not a sympathetic for Slavonic cooperation on an international level...
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Levels of identity of young Lusatian Sorbs
Dvořáčková, Tereza ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Korecká, Zuzana (referee)
This paper focuses on identity of young Lusatian Sorbs and it's manifestation on social networks and on the Internet. Theoretical part presents various attitudes to identity to point out ambiguity of this concept. There are presented and evaluated realized researchs of Lusatian Sorbs identity. Practical part concerned with analysis of virtual data on internet and social networks to describe, how Lusatian Sorbs communicate there and how they present there their identity. The identity research is introduced in context of actual happening in Lusatia. The important sources of informations for this paper are informal interviews with Lusatian Sorbs and my own observation and fieldwork. Keywords Lusatian Sorbs, identity, Lusatia, social networks, internet, Facebook
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Adolf Černý and his Explorational Trips in Lusatia
Kaleta, Petr
Travelling had an important place in the life of Adolf Černý. He became familiar with many parts of pre-war Europe as well as the new countries which came into being following the First World War, however his most thorough trips were through Slavic Lusatia. His research trips to Lusatia in the 1880s and 1890s were one of the final phases of his collection of ethnographic material in this part of the Slavic world. His brilliant knowledge of the Sorbian language helped him to penetrate into the world of the Sorbian rural inhabitans, which at that time was rather archaic. The base for his trips was always Budyšin (Bautzen), where the central Sorbian institutions were located, and the home of Michal Hórnik, the leader of the Sorbs at the time.
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