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Radio portrait of an (un)ordinary person Marie Burešová
Kroa, Martina ; Gulda, Jana (advisor) ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (referee)
The main part of this practical bachelor thesis is a radio portrait. In the practical part, I portray the life of an (un)ordinary person, Marie Burešová, into a radio documentary lasting 45 minutes. The eighty-year-old contemporary witness born to a Czech-German family was fundamentally influenced by the collectivization of agriculture in the 1950s, and her life was determined by her decision to take over the family farm, which she made at the age of eighteen. The document alternates the statements of the respondent with the inputs of the author or questions and remarks made during the recording. The process of collecting not only the audio material could be compared to recording the life of a contemporary witness. The author recorded their conversations, her memories and opinions, in the village of Buková in Western Bohemia, where Marie Burešová spent her whole life. In the theoretical part the author defines individual journalistic and documentary and specifically radio genres, but also methods. Compares the portrait and medallion and also brings different approaches of various journalists to the genre interview as not only the basic method of journalistic work. Above all, she focuses on the portrait interview due to the nature of the practical part but also talks about programs and projects that...
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The depiction of Czechoslovakia in the years 1989 - 1990 through the eyes of viewers in the television series Vyprávěj
Vitoušová, Natálie ; Kárníková, Lydie (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
The bachelor thesis entitled "The depiction of Czechoslovakia in the years 1989 - 1990 through the eyes of viewers in the television series Vyprávěj" deals with the question of how the perception of the portrayal of a particular stage of contemporary history (the November Revolution of 1989 and the social events of the early 1990s) in the series differs between two different groups of viewers, the memorials and the non-memorials. The thesis consists of pilot research conducted with two respondents, each representing one of the two audience groups. Their experience of watching and perceiving the series is explored through a semi-structured interview method with predetermined thematic headings. On a theoretical level, the thesis explores how the format of the series: the memory medium, utilizes concepts of nostalgia along with cultural and communicative memory, while considering account the specificities of post-television audiences. Furthermore it describes the relation between memory and history, as well as presenting the specific importance of the period 1989-1990 in modern Czechoslovak and Czech history. The thesis contributes to the understanding of how cultural memory is shaped in the series Vyprávěj, and its further aim is to develop interview scenarios for more extensive research with more...
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The ones who stayed - The Germans in Prachatice and its surroundings after 1945
TOUŠEK, Filip
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and with the Germans who stayed there. In the first part, the situation in the whole Czechoslovakia is analysed. The thesis provides a description of the history of the German minority on the Czechoslovak territory from the establishment of the republic, which means from 1918, past the World War II and the following expulsion till the following period. Moreover, the thesis focuses on the reasons which enabled some Germans to stay in Czechoslovakia or even forced them to do so and on the subsequent development of their lives there. The second part of the thesis aims on the German minority in the district of Prachatice. The history of Germans in this district and the process of their expulsion are described. For the last part, three contemporary witnesses of the event have been interviewed in order for their life stories to be individually documented. To conclude with, the thesis presents a comparison of the similarities and differences of their fortunes.
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Relation of People from the Tesinsko and Karvinsko Region toward the Polish and German Occupation
Kawan, Jiří ; Kubátová, Hana (advisor) ; Gelnarová, Jitka (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The Relation of People from the Tesinsko Region Towards the Polish and German Occupation" is focusing on attitude of inhabitants of Czech (former Czechoslovakian) part of the Tesinko between the years 1938 and 1940. In the time period mentioned, the regime has changed twice in the region. The necessary section of such a work/study is also a study/elaboration of impacts and manifestations of the new regimes on the inhabitants. Before the core of the thesis itself, information of social and political history of region are mentioned. Testimonies of five contemporary witnesses represent the sources of the main topic. Moreover, there are the views of literature and archival sources included. The outcome of the thesis may therefore provide a material for comparison of rather local-based testimonies with broad, easier-accessed literature and archival-like materials
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