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Integration of Foreigners in Prague, Capital of Czech Republic on the Example of the Pakistanis
Vlčková, Dominika ; Seidlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Janská, Eva (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to consider the integration of foreigners in the capital of the Czech Republic, with he focus on the Pakistani commuunity. The first part contains explanation of basic terms that are related to the integration of foreigners. Moreover, it includes description of integration policies. The second part focuses on characteristics of countries where the immigrants came from and also on mutual relations between country of emigration and country of immigration. The last, practical, part, which is the most important, is dedicated to research among members of the selected community and to problems of their integration into the dominant society on economical, social and cultural level.
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Architect Eugene Rosenberg - Works in Czechoslovakia
Ištok, Radoslav ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Petr (referee)
This graduate thesis deals with work of architect Eugene Rosenberg. Rosenberg, a Jewish architect of Slovak origin, made his career in inter-war Prague. He is connected mainly with luxurious apartment blocks in Letná but range of his work is richer. Through the apprenticeship at Le Corbusier's and Czech architects'ateliers of the first rank, Rosenberg got in touch with the art of architecture of the highest quality, which together with schooling under Josef Gočár left a deep trace in his own work. Rosenberg, despite his origin and character of his commissions, bacame an integral part of Czechoslovak avantgarde. The threat of Nazi invasion made him leave Czechoslovakia for United Kingdom, where he succesfully worked until his death.
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Contemporary Art as a Tool of Art Marketing of the City of Prague
Pilná, Barbora ; Dolanský, Pavel (advisor) ; Köppl, Daniel (referee)
Work Contemporary Art as a Tool of Art Marketing of the City of Prague aims to show culture not only as something saint and untouchable, but also as a very important part of a state economy, mainly in the framework of tourism. It deals with the relationship of culture and marketing, with the meaning of culture itself and with its role in the area of tourism. It looks into culture as the tool of the communication of Prague and looks critically at the contemporary situation of its presentation for tourists. There's no doubt that the presentation of Prague only through historical city centre is no longer enough in the competition of other cultural destinations and that Prague should think about changing and developing new strategy of communication. As the very tool of this change could work contemporary arts, which is used by many other cultural destinations around the world (Berlin, London, NYC), which Prague can also offer and which shows openess and a better place for life. The Prague City Hall has been financing those alternative cultural projects lately and by doing that has started to present Prague not only as a historical city centre, but also as a creative and dynamic place. This work discusses the reasons why The City Hall has been doing so, if on purpose or unconsciously, and by that tries...
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Camill Hoffmann. A biography
Polák, Pavel ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor)
Résumé This thesis aims to describe the life and work of the poet, translator, journalist and Czechoslovak diplomat Camill Hoffmann. Hoffmann was born to a Jewish family in Kolin, his mother tongue was German but he also spoke Czech well. He attended a grammar school in Prague where he soon became a member of a poet's society publishing in the journal Jaro (Spring) which was issued by Paul Leppin. "Spring generation", as they were later called after the journal, is counted to the neoromantics. At the beginning of the 20th century, Hoffmann leaves for Vienna where he begins to work as a journalist for the daily Zeit. There he makes friends with Stefan Zweig, together they translate Baudelaire's poetry book Flowers of Evil. While writing for the culture department of the Zeit, he has close contacts to writers from central Europe, to Arthur Schnitzler, Marie Ebner von Eschenbach or Detlev von Lilliencron. Recommended by Max Brod, Hoffmann also published a poem of Franz Werfel, by that time an unknown author. In 1912, Hoffmann moves to Dresden where he works as a culture section chief-editor of the daily Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten. His apartment becomes soon a meeting point for many artists, young expressionists. After the outbreak of the World War I, Hoffmann is declared indispensable for the daily, so he...
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Music and Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526 - 1620
Baťa, Jan ; Černý, Jaromír (advisor) ; Horyna, Martin (referee) ; Hulková, Marta (referee)
This disertation is a contribution to our knowledge of music and musical culture in the Old Town of Prague between 1526 and1620. The first methodological chapter, Musical culture of a Renaissance city as a topic, discusses different views on the problem of musical culture in the city, both in domestic and foreign academic literature. This text is followed by a survey of the present state of research entitled Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526-1620 in the light of present literature. It focuses only on the items that contributed significantly to the topic. The third chapter, Focus on the musical privacy of Prague citizens in the period before the Battle of the White Mountain, opens the main part of the dissertation with the results of newly-undertaken research. It discusses eight concrete samples of inventories and shows the presence of musical scores and instruments in citizens' households and their function in life in those times. The fourth chapter, Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526-1620 viewed through preserved musical sources tries to focus broadly on those preserved musical manuscripts, that can be attributed to a specific place. The following chapter, The Gradual of Trubka of Roviny, is closely related to the previous one. It is a detailed examination of one of the...
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Walking and writing the world. An approach to modernity in Bohemia and France from the beginnig of the 19 th century to the 1948's
Matysová, Kristýna ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kyloušek, Petr (referee) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
Walking and writing the world. An approach to modernity in Bohemia and France from the beginning of the 19th century to the 1940's In Christian allegoric texts the Pilgrim traditionally symbolizes the journey of mankind to heaven. From the second half of the 19th century on, poets, travelers, and vagabonds pursued the quest of an afterlife from within city walls. This dissertation examines the different representations of modern wandering via an in-depth analysis of the theme as encountered in French and Czech literature and arts from the early 19th century to the 1940's. It reveals, in chronological order, the different artistic approaches to modernity. By bringing out the various patterns that emerge from the texts, while taking into account the historical and social contexts in which they were created, this work adds to existing knowledge on the cultural similarities between France and Bohemia. It also examines the different literary genres which originate from mankind's need to walk and write the world.
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The beginnings of clubbing in Prague
Kazdová, Darina ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
This piece of work was meant to be countinuous to my bachelor's thesis. In that essay I was dealing with the history of Czech electronic dance music in general. This time I focused just on Prague and surrounding area. The Czech capital was deeply influenced by presence of tourists. After the Velvet revolution, they were suddenly able to visit Prague. And as they they were already familiar with electronic music, they could help to spread it here. The situation in Prague is also compared with the rest of the world (western civilization). In the first part of the essay, I describe the qualitative research and the method I have used, which is the oral history. I also enclose a brief vocabulary of frequently used terms that are not very well known to the greater audience, I suppose. The last part is the analysis of the interviews itself. The interviews were done with important narrators.
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Local politics in Greater Prague. Municipal elections, political parties and elected bodies in the years 1923 - 1938
Švec, Michal ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
in English The aim of this thesis is to explain the institutional setting of the political system of Greater Prague (polity) - especially the electoral system and institutional structures - and then in this located space realize real encounters and cooperation of political parties (politics). Working in its first chapter deals with the identification, evaluation or sources from which it is based. The second chapter briefly depicts the development of public administration in Prague and the creation of Greater Prague in 1922. In the third chapter, there are defined authorities, where the Prague municipal affairs usually took place, and their competence. The fourth chapter explains the functioning of the electoral system, which was an important determinant of the form of the party system. The electoral system with highly proportional effects allowed representation of number of parties (mainly arising from the cleavages in the society). The most powerful political parties, operating in the central council, are briefly introduced, including their prominent protagonists of the Prague City Hall. In the extensive sixth chapter, the results of municipal elections from the years 1923- 1938 are compared in time and space of the city. The observed territorial differences of electoral support are cartographic...
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