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The application of language law and language policy in the protection of minorities in Germany. Exemplified by the dispute of the Wendish municipalities Crostwitz and Radibor with the state of Saxony in the years 2001-2006
Hartmanová, Lenka ; Kunštát, Miroslav (referee) ; Dovalil, Vít (advisor)
This master thesis deals with the apphcation of language law and language policy in the protection of minorities in Germany. In the conclusive case study the dispute of the Wendish Municipalities Crostwitz and Radibor with the State Saxony between 2001 - 2006 is analysed. The minority language protection in Germany cannot be understood properly without setting it in the broader intemational and European minority protection :framework. Intemational treaties and soft law of UNO, OSCE, Council of Europe and European Union create a complex system of protection. Particularly the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages by Council of Europe meant a breakthrough in minority protection. The Federal Republic of Germany recognises as minority languages on its territory Danish, Frisian, Romani, Sorbian, and Low German as a regional language. The thesis analyses the legal and institutional anchorage of the minority language rights in Germany. Essential for the vitality of a language is the socio - economic situation of its speakers. Many minority languages are used in economically weak regions and are threatened by a reflux of the speakers. The third pillar is the representation of the minority and regional languages in the culture and education, which enables and assures its transfer to future generations....
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Internalisation of Czech press
Pivoňka, Ondřej ; Jeřábek, Hynek (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This paper is to be considered a contribution to critical media analyses. It is based on the thoughts of Herman and McChesney (1997). It is an effort to apply their thesis about global media systems on the example of Czech newspapers. The core of the paper is comparative content analysis of three major dailies in 1994 and 2004. The analysis verifies the trends that according to Herman and McChesney characterises the development of mass media. Those are concentration and consolidation of capital on the newspaper market, and commercialisation, globalisation, tabloidisation and homogenisation of the contents of the dailies. The analysis has been conducted on the sample of 20 issues of each title in each year. It brought results that partly confirm and partly contradict the theory. The trend of concentration of capital has been observed. The rate of Czech capital on the newspaper market is as low as 15%. The rest is divided among few foreign (mostly two German) companies. The reason of this situation is identified as lack of legislative protection of the newspaper market in the transformation processes in the 90's. The trend of tabloidisation and commercialisation of the contents of the dailies has been proven too. There is no doubt this has negative effects for the public sphere. However, instead of the trends...
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The Mysterious Atmosphere of Prague and Prague German Authors
Karevová, Darina ; Stejskalová, Anna (advisor) ; Pechová, Drahoslava (referee)
Von der Prager deutschen Literatur ist nicht zu sprechen ohne Hinweis auf die Geschichte und die Topographie Prags. Prag war ein Brennpunkt der nationalen, sozialen und religiösen Konflikte innerhalb der Monarchie. In Prag entwickelte sich eine deutsch - jüdische Literatur und Kunst von Weltgeltung. Zur Erklärung dieses Phänomens wurden verschiedene Theorien entwickelt. Unter diesen die "Ghettotheorie", die davon ausgeht, dass die deutsch - jüdischen Autoren in einem dreifachen Ghetto lebten. Die Autoren empfanden in der polemisch zerrissenen, multinationalen Stadt die Krise ihrer Identität und gaben ihr den überregional und überzeitlich gültigen Ausdruck. Die Vorstellung von Prag ist mit der Atmosphäre des Unheimlichen, Mystischen, Magischen und Grotesken untrennbar verbunden. In dem Prag - Bild spiegelt sich das epochale Gefühl eines Untergangs und subjektive Emotionen der inneren Leere, der Einsamkeit und Entfremdung, der Angst vor etwas Unbekanntem und Furchtbarem. Zu den Prager deutschsprachigen Autoren gehörten auch Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka und Paul Leppin. Im Werk dieser drei Autoren kann man die geheimnisvolle Atmosphäre Prags finden. Fantasie, Traum und Wirklichkeit sind hier geheimnisvoll vermischt. Prag war ein Spiegelbild ihrer Seele, ihrer inneren Welt.
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Change of characters of the Bundeswehr Foreign missions - case of the Bosnian war
Hudzieczková, Eva ; Dvořák, Pavel (advisor) ; Ryáček, Jan (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is a Change of character of the Bundeswehr Foreign missions - case of the Bosnian war. Firstly, the thesis deals with complicated establishment of the German army (Bundeswehr) and presents its first humanitarian missions led by international organizations. Secondly, the thesis deals with discussion about so called Out-of-area operations, which broke out shortly before the Iron Curtain fell down, both in German parliament as well as among the German public. The main chapter of this thesis focuses on the first foreign mission of the German soldiers, in Bosnian war. Next part presents the judicial precedent of The Federal Constitutional Court in 1994, which gave the foreign missions a legal framework. The important asset of this thesis is reflection of this topic in the Czech press.
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Comparison of economic reforms in Czechoslovakia and GDR in the sixties of the 20th century
Vochozka, Jan ; Szobi, Pavel (advisor) ; Dufek, Pavel (referee)
This thesis dealt with economic reforms in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic in the 60s of the 20th century and their impact on economic, political and social development of society. The first part is focused on Czechoslovakia and assumptions and principles of reforms, finished with the so-called Šiks reform, which was canceled in 1968. In the second part of the thesis are the reform efforts in the GDR compared directly with the reforms in Czechoslovakia and their overall impact on future development of the two socialist states. Finally, the work evaluates contribution of the reforms and possibility of their implementation in practice.
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Struggle for National Identity in 80's the 19" Century
Kutová, Karolina ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Hlavačka, Milan (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to analyse social and economic situation in Bohemia considering nationalism as a basic political idea of both Czech liberal political parties, and so to map a change in the leading positions in Czech liberal politics. This analysis also enables to appraise the goals of Young Czechs and Old Czechs who were the only representatives of Czech nation with regard to efforts of German liberal politics in Bohemia.
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Public Opinion on Post-War Transfer of Sudeten Germans and Benes Decrees - November 2016
Červenka, Jan
In November survey Public Opinion Research Centre asked respondents some questions concerning decrees of the President Edvard Benes. Currently 43% respondents share the opinion that Benes decrees should continue to be in force, 12% stood up for their cancellation, and 45% had no opinion on this issue. Another question focused on the post-war transfer of Sudeten Germans from Czech borderland in 1945-6. 37% of respondents considered this historical act to be just. On the contrary 38% marked the transfer as unjust (simultaneously majority of them claimed necessity to make a thick line behind the past) and 25 % had no opinion on this.
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