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Wandering off after Libuše, or the Identities of Josef Jiří Kolár
Futtera, Ladislav
This study analyses three works by the writer and playwright Josef Jiři Kolar: the German-language short story Libussa am Missisippi (Libuše in Mississippi, 1842), its Czech version Libuše v Americe (Libuše in America, 1854) and the drama Věštba Libušina (Libuše’s Prophecy, 1868). These are used as an example to demonstrate Kolar’s artistic development and changes in the identity of a writer working in the Czech lands around the mid-19th century. During the period under review, Kolar, who in 1842 had been an actor in German and Czech ensembles at the Estates Theatre, publishing in both languages, came to be an acclaimed Czech-language playwright. This career is faithfully reflected in these three texts. In the case of Libuše in Mississippi, this is an original attempt to critically come to terms from the position of the Young Bohemia (Junges Bohmen) artistic group with the heritage of romantic poetics, romantic stereotypes about the Czech lands and ultimately with the romantic nationalism of the Czech national movement. Although Kolar made a number of alterations when rendering the novel into Czech, his text was not compatible with the mythological-historical reading of the Libuše legend, dominant in Czech-language culture. It was not until Libuše’s Prophecy, staged to mark the laying of the foundation stones for the National Theatre, that he did conform. Kolar negated both of his previous Libuše texts with her message, which appealed to the historicism that pervaded Czech society. However, this negation also meant a definitive artistic identification with the Czech national programme and the acceptance of a Czech national identity. With regard to his creative trajectory, Kolar may thus be perceived as a typical representative of the generation of artists who began their career in the early 1840s, critically addressing Romanticism and Romantic nationalism, but after the 1848 revolution its members integrated, both on the Czech and the German side, into the nationalized bourgeois society of the Czech lands.
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Contacts with Lusatian Sorbs in the region of Mladá Boleslav in the years 1918-1938
Futtera, Ladislav ; Zdichynec, Jan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee)
The topic of contacts with Lusatian Sorbs in the Region of Mladá Boleslav in the Years 1918- 1938 is studied in the sources originating from the press published in Mladá Boleslav, the newspaper of the Lusatian Sorbs and the review of the Czech and Lusatian club "Adolf Černý" (Českolužický spolek "Adolf Černý") - Českolužický věstník, since 1931 Lužickosrbský věstník - as well as in inedited sources from Serbski kulturny archiw in Bautzen and SOkA Mladá Boleslav fund. First two chapters present the Lusatian Sorbs, their origin, history and contacts with the Czech milieu. In the next chapter there are analysed the geographic and ethnic conditions which have allowed that Mladá Boleslav became the centre of the contacts with the Lusatian Sorbs. Their overview is attached further on. The focal point of this thesis is composed of three main thematic areas: The social stratification of the sorabophiles in Mladá Boleslav, the stratification from the point of view of their activities and their motivation and intention. In the first theme area there is described, which social groups were interested in the Lusatian Sorbs in the twenties and how this structure has changed, when a section of the Czech and Lusatian club was founded in Mladá Boleslav in 1931. The theme area dealing with the stratification of the...
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From Libussa to Wlasta - from Vyšehrad to Děvín. Tale about Libussa and "the Woman's War" in the Literature of the 19th Century
Futtera, Ladislav ; Petrbok, Václav (advisor) ; Maidl, Václav (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the capturing of the portrayal of the Czech prehistory in the German literature, by the German-speaking authors originating from the Czech countries as well as in the Czech literature. The term 'Czech prehistory' is approached in terms of the Czech tales, with emphasis laid on the character of Princess Libussa (Libuše). The span of the thesis reaches from the Englightenment to the argument about the authenticity of the Rukopis královédvorský (Manuscript from Dvůr Králové) and the Rukopis zelenohorský (Manuscript from Zelená hora) in the 1880s. The thesis is divided into two parts. First, the development trends of the representation of the Czech prehistory are chronologically presented. The literary-historical development is discussed in relation to the changes in the concepts of German and Czech patriotism and nationalism. There is also a focus on the development of poetics and the shifts in the reception of prehistory during the periods of Enlightenment, Romanticism and Biedermeier. The changes in the character of Princess Libussa are compared of the possibilities of literary portrayal of Rübezahl (Krakonoš), the mythical ruler of the Giant Mountains, in literary works claiming allegiance to German or Czech patriotism and nationalism. In the second part, the portrayal...
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How to write transcultural literary history?
Petrbok, Václav ; Smyčka, Václav ; Turek, Matouš ; Nekula, M. ; Heimböckel, D. ; Weinberg, M. ; Budňák, Jan ; Futtera, Ladislav ; Horňáček, L. ; Hon, J. K.
A publication How to write a transcultural literary history? contains selected contributions from the international conference held on 15th - 16th November 2018 by the Group for Research on Czech-German Intercultural Relations in the Bohemian Lands in the Institute of Czech Literature of the ASCR. The conference focused on the theoretical and methodological issues of writing the history of several literary cultures in different languages that coexisted in the Bohemian lands. It includes contributions concerning medieval literary production, the exposed “long” 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, as well as a number of problem areas (translation, cultural transfer, periodization, multilingualism, canon, regionalism, confessionalism) and theoretical and methodological approaches (postcolonial studies, transcultural theory, new historicism). In addition to the scholarly intent, this collection also seeks to stimulate further debates on the form of future literary-historical synthesis of literatures of Bohemian Lands across disciplines - Czech studies, German studies and other philologies, as well as cultural science or social and political history.
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„The Czechs will live, and live long, for the salvation of themselves and of Slavdom.” Prophecy in the culture of the Czech Enlightenment and Romanticism
Futtera, Ladislav
This article follows the development of the genre of prophecy on the Czech (in the provincial sense) scene from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century with the stress on the modification of this traditional genre of spiritual literature within the context of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. After the middle of the century, the prophecy genre gradually emerged from its exclusively spiritual contexts and despite the dismissive attitude of some enlightenment adherents, it became an instrument for the education of subjects in the spirit of enlightened paternalism or Josephinism. Its development throughout the 19th century is then reflected in the emergence of provincial patriotism and its gradual suppression by ethnic nationalism. Both these discourses made use of the potential of prophecies referring to the Czech lands as a narrative that anchored the national community between the past, the present and the future. The greatest potential was offered by prophecy referring to Vyšehrad and Princess Libuše, who was portrayed from the end of the 18th century as a (semi-)mythical guarantor of the continuity of Czech statehood. The second key text is the Blaník prophecy, but when this became part of the Czech national discourse, its adherents underwent a transformation. The authority of the prophet, the Sibyll and the Blind Youth gradually give way to the authority of historical figures, Saint Václav and the Hussites, who were associated with prophecy, accompanying it with the constitutive Czech historical narrative.
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Lusatian Sorbs and the Society in the Regions of Jizera and Central Elbein the Period of the First Czechoslovak Republic
Futtera, Ladislav ; Zdichynec, Jan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee)
Between the years 1931-1934, both in the region of Jizera in the area between Semily and Mladá Boleslav and in the region of Central Elbe between Kolín and Nymburk, eight subsidiary unions of the Czechoslovakian-Lusatian society "Adolf Černý" were founded. On three other places, namely in Český Brod, Kouřim and Lysá nad Labem, the attempts to establish the local unions failed. Nonetheless, the area consequently became the second most significant cultural centre as well as the meeting point of the Lusatian Sorbs in the inter-war Czechoslovakia, the first one being Prague. It was regularly visited by the Lusatian Sokol gymnasts or choirs, and Lusatian-Sorbian children as well as university students spent their holidays there. It is therefore no surprise that the Mužský Hill near the city of Mnichovo Hradiště became the location of a demonstration in support of the Lusatian Sorbs which took place there in July 1933 as a reaction to a wave of persecutions in Germany. Due to the fragmentary nature of the sources, the topic of the following thesis is based primarily on the regional press, the Sorbian press and the journal Českolužický věstník, called Lužickosrbský věstník since 1931. There is only one complete archive which remained intact, namely the one of the Semily union of the Czech-Lusatian society...
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Image of the Czech Prehistory in Historiography and Fiction of the 19th
Futtera, Ladislav ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the capturing of the development trends of evens of the representation of the Czech prehistory in the fiction and of its conception in the historiography. The term 'Czech prehistory' is approached in terms of the Czech tales, with emphasis laid on the character of Princess Libuše. The span of the thesis reaches from the Englightenment critic of Václav Hájek z Libočan's Kronika česká (Czech chronicle) by Gelasius Dobner to the argument about the authenticity of the Rukopis královédvorský (Manuscript from Dvůr Králové) and the Rukopis zelenohorský (Manuscript from Zelená hora) in the 1880s. Both cases resulted in reassessment of the relation to the stories from the Czech prehistory by the contemporary society. The first chapter, after introducing the topic, deals with critique of the Václav Hájek's Chronicle by Gelasius Dobner, which changed the relation to the Czech prehistory in the historiography of the Czech coutries, and the philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder, which opened the way to the establishment of the modern nations, based on the language. The national communities were afterwords established based on their history and the stories about their origin. The next chapters pursue the adaptation of the material about the Czech prehistory in the German literature,...
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Contacts with Lusatian Sorbs in the region of Mladá Boleslav in the years 1918-1938
Futtera, Ladislav ; Zdichynec, Jan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee)
The topic of contacts with Lusatian Sorbs in the Region of Mladá Boleslav in the Years 1918- 1938 is studied in the sources originating from the press published in Mladá Boleslav, the newspaper of the Lusatian Sorbs and the review of the Czech and Lusatian club "Adolf Černý" (Českolužický spolek "Adolf Černý") - Českolužický věstník, since 1931 Lužickosrbský věstník - as well as in inedited sources from Serbski kulturny archiw in Bautzen and SOkA Mladá Boleslav fund. First two chapters present the Lusatian Sorbs, their origin, history and contacts with the Czech milieu. In the next chapter there are analysed the geographic and ethnic conditions which have allowed that Mladá Boleslav became the centre of the contacts with the Lusatian Sorbs. Their overview is attached further on. The focal point of this thesis is composed of three main thematic areas: The social stratification of the sorabophiles in Mladá Boleslav, the stratification from the point of view of their activities and their motivation and intention. In the first theme area there is described, which social groups were interested in the Lusatian Sorbs in the twenties and how this structure has changed, when a section of the Czech and Lusatian club was founded in Mladá Boleslav in 1931. The theme area dealing with the stratification of the...
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From Libussa to Wlasta - from Vyšehrad to Děvín. Tale about Libussa and "the Woman's War" in the Literature of the 19th Century
Futtera, Ladislav ; Petrbok, Václav (advisor) ; Maidl, Václav (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the capturing of the portrayal of the Czech prehistory in the German literature, by the German-speaking authors originating from the Czech countries as well as in the Czech literature. The term 'Czech prehistory' is approached in terms of the Czech tales, with emphasis laid on the character of Princess Libussa (Libuše). The span of the thesis reaches from the Englightenment to the argument about the authenticity of the Rukopis královédvorský (Manuscript from Dvůr Králové) and the Rukopis zelenohorský (Manuscript from Zelená hora) in the 1880s. The thesis is divided into two parts. First, the development trends of the representation of the Czech prehistory are chronologically presented. The literary-historical development is discussed in relation to the changes in the concepts of German and Czech patriotism and nationalism. There is also a focus on the development of poetics and the shifts in the reception of prehistory during the periods of Enlightenment, Romanticism and Biedermeier. The changes in the character of Princess Libussa are compared of the possibilities of literary portrayal of Rübezahl (Krakonoš), the mythical ruler of the Giant Mountains, in literary works claiming allegiance to German or Czech patriotism and nationalism. In the second part, the portrayal...
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