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First phase of GDR literature: Aufbauliteratur 1949-1956
Wunderlin, Katja ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
This work deals with the first phase of the GDR literature, the so-called Aufbauliteratur. It shows how the GDR dealt during the years 1949 to 1956 with the fascist past and how the newly formed socialist state was built. The contemporary literature of the GDR reflects the efforts to reeducate people in the sense of the socialist ideas and to portray the daily life of the new socialist republic. In the meantime this literature should boost the working people to increase the production and to build a socialist economy. The aim of my work is to show the reflection of the former reality in the literature. As a basis for this analysis there are five selected works from Eduard Claudius Mensch an unserer Seite, Hans Marchwitza Roheisen, Elfriede Brüning Regine Haberkorn, Jan Koplowitz Unser Kumpel Max, der Riese und Harry Thürk Die Herren des Salzes. Keywords: GDR, Aufbauliteratur, socialist state, working people, production, re-education, Eduard Claudius, Hans Machwitza, Jan Koplowitz, Harry Thürk, Elfriede Brüning
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The Democratic Transition of Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and their Successor States, with Particular Focus on the Geopolitical Framework after 1989
Holtschke, Eric ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
(by Eric Holtschke) The end of the Cold War and thus the collapse of the Eastern Bloc was, in the words of Mary Farrell, "one of the late twentieth century's defining moments"1 : Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed, opening up the road to democracy together with freedom of speech, freedom of thought and free elections, as well as free and independent movement of people. The end of the Cold War, which started as a direct result of the Second World War, came about by means of mass demonstrations, the first of which took place in Plauen (GDR) on 7 October 1989. Only a few months later, no-one could be sure how the world would develop. The so-called 'voice' was followed by 'exit' in the German Democratic Republic - and the Czechoslovakians were close to the events taking place in the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague. The end of the autocratic system was followed by the process of democratisation, characterised by upheavals and the restructuring of political conditions. Free and independent elections marked the end of democratisation in both the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia. The consolidation period was determined by the dissolution of both of the aforementioned countries, succeeded by 1) the absorption of the entirety of former East German...
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Directional creation by Frank Castorf
Pavlíčková, Aneta ; Augustová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
(in English): This bachelor thesis is dealing with the work of German director and intendant of Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz theatre in Berlin, Frank Castorf (born 1951). The thesis is focusing on the characteristic features of Castorf's directing method and on the subject of politics in his current plays in Volksbühne theatre. In the thesis there are two plays being analysed: Kean ou Désordre et Génie. Comédie en cinq actes par Alexandre Dumas et "Die Hamletmaschine" par Heiner Müller (premiere: 6. 11. 2008) a Das Duell (premiere: 27. 3. 2013). Castorf's work is being investigated in terms of postdramatical theatre and performance aesthetics. The firts part of the thesis is focusing on Castorf's method of adapting and rearranging dramatical and literary texts. The second part deals with the director's concept of actor's physical being on stage. The last chapter looks into Castrof's work with video projections and live streaming in his plays and deals with the matter of distinguishing the real body presence of an actor on stage and his reflection in the electronic projections. Castrof's work concept is mainly being analysed from the point of the viewer's perception. The bachelor thesis shows that political dimension of Castorf's work doesn't depend only on textual expression but also on the...
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.The Olympic Games in Munich as a Venue for the Political Rivalry between the FRG and the GDR
Papežová, Kateřina ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Konrád, Ota (referee)
The thesis "The Olympic Games in Munich as a Venue for the Political Rivalry between the FRG and the GDR" deals with the use of sport for political purposes by the two German states on the specific example of the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. These Olympic games were a breakthrough for both countries. For the FRG as a host country, they created an opportunity to show the world, a new and modern Germany. However on the other hand, the GDR could use it's first equal participation with an independent team in the Olympics to it's own advantage. The first part of the thesis is focused on the development of German-German rivalry in the Olympics. The next chapter describes the Olympic games in Munich and also answers the question; what the two German states wanted to achieve, how they wanted to achieve their goals and which one of the German states was more succesful in overall rivalry through the use of the games. Attention is also paid to the influence on political rivalry between the two states of the Palestinian assassination at the games. The conclusions of the thesis are supported by the analysis of the response of the political rivalry of the GDR and the FRG at the Munich Olympics in print media. With a focus specifically on the East German newspaper- Neues Deutschland and West German newspaper-...
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The revolt of 1953 and its interpretation in the tendentious newspapers in the GDR and Czechoslowakia
Kyselová, Petra ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Nigrin, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the bachelor work "Uprising from the 17th March 1953 and its interpretation in biased press in DDR and ČSR" is to characterize the basic characters of the uprising, which took place firstly on 16th end 17th June in eastern Berlin and then in other east-German cities. In the first part I am trying to describe especially the reasons of this event, its course with focus on crucial moments, which influenced the following course of the uprising. I am also focusing on results, which this event had on other social-political development of the divided Germany. In the second part of my work I am characterizing the immediate interpretation of this event, created by the biased press in DDR and ČSR. In each country I will investigate the interpretation in party-, labor unions- and youth press. With consideration of control and censorship mechanisms, which in each country got concrete outlines, during investigation of interpretation of this event I will try to search for differences between periodicals and later between the two countries. I will observe, how each periodical characterize the event and if some unbiased facts and thoughts could have appeared. In comparison between the countries, my question is, if it was necessary the information coming from eastern Germany designated for Czechoslovak...
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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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Pasing The Iron Curtain via Prague - the first wave of refugees from the GDR in autumn 1989 in the West German embassy and the portrayal in the Czecho-slovakian press
Majerová, Kateřina ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Passing The Iron Curtain via Prague - the first wave of refugees from the GDR in autumn 1989 in the West German embassy and the portrayal in the Czechoslovakian press" deals with the topic of refugees in the West German embassy in Prague in the year 1989. It focuses on the first of three refugee of refugees in the late summer and autumn 1989 which took place from August to September 1989. Concerning the first wave of refugees in August and September two aspects are being analysed in this bachelor thesis which influence the structure of this scientific paper. The first part deals with the role of representatives of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic during the first refugee wave and how they reacted to the events in the embassy. This part draws especially on documents from Czechoslovakian archives because the Czechoslovakian role in these events has been kept secret from the Federal Republic of Germany. The second part contains an analysis of how the selected Czechoslovakian daily papers (Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo, Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta a Práce ) reported about the refugees in the West German embassy from August until the departure of the first special trains. Much emphasis was laid on showing how often, in which way and to what extent there were reports about these...
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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 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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