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The History and Activities of the Town and Country Planning Department of The Ressearch Institute for Building and Architecture in Brno
Žáčková, Markéta ; Chatrný, Jindřich (referee) ; Ing.arch.Igor Kovačevič, Ph.D. (referee) ; Doležel, Karel (referee) ; Koutný, Jan (advisor)
The dissertation explores the history and activities of the Brno-located Town and Country Planning Department of The Research Institute for Building and Architecture (RIBA) since its foundation in 1954 until its abolishment in 1994. As a part of the department functioning, a description of its main research tasks and publications, which had played an essential part while formulating theory and methodology of urban planning after the 2nd World War in Czechoslovakia, are introduced. Special attention is paid to tasks and publications whose authors and research workers applied interdisciplinary approaches and – in spite of the prevailing totalitarian regime – managed to apply their experience acquired abroad to produce highly influential works such as The Principles and Rules of Spatial Planning. Another objective of the dissertation is the creation of a complex bibliography of texts that were produced by the department (books, reports on the outcomes of research tasks that had been explored at the Town and Country Planning Department and that were released internally as handbooks serving research workers of the institute and other institutions focusing on building and architecture). Depictions of the Brno department of RIBA from the perspective of two of its significant representatives who have outlived the institution they had witnessed to be founded and to the functioning of which they had significantly contributed, become a key part of the text: Ing. arch. Vladimír Matoušek, CSc., the second head of the Town and Country Planning Department of RIBA and Ing. arch. Dušan Riedl, CSc., a theoretician of architecture and urban planning and a top expert on Czech national herritage. As the topic has not yet been subjected to scholarly research, the main objective of the work is to create the very first complex text on the Brno department of RIBA and its activities. The circumstances surrounding the constitution of RIBA in the context of other similarly functioning research institutes are pursued with a special focus on the fields of building, architecture and urban planning as well as legislative embedding of its foundation and functioning, its organization structure, staff, definition of taskmasters and the way the tasks were approached, relations to other institutions in the field, publishing activities and transfer of theoretical research outcomes to practice. The text also deals with the state of present-day research of architecture and urban planning. Archive material and publications released by the institute represent a predominant source of information about RIBA activities. They are now stored at the archive of ABF Foundation in Prague (the foundation has been administering both the archive and library of the Prague department of RIBA since its abolishment), at the library of The Institute for Spatial Development in Brno (the institute administers the library of the former Brno department) and at the Moravian Land Archive in Brno. Both of the archives have been thoroughly researched by the author. Critical reflections upon the urban-planning department of RIBA occurring in contemporary publications and periodicals are another important source of information which help to specify the character of its activities (recent literature mentions RIBA scarcely, a complex evaluation is still missing). Oral history reported by former employees of RIBA, who had contributed to the first-rate quality of its research activities.
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Caravan Club
Fišerová, Barbora ; Kubíková, Zuzana (referee) ; Kijonka, Lukáš (advisor)
The bachelor thesis describes the evolution and changes of the phenomenon of organized caravaning in our country from its beginning and its boom to the present. Due to the breadth of the selected theme in the monitored period, from the 1970s to 2019, I focus mainly on Western Bohemia, specifically the Caravan Club Pilsen, of which my family is a member. Part of the book is the autobiographically written memory of Jan Valenta, who wrote the club “Chronicle” from around 1980 to 2011, archival photographs and authorial texts and narrative interviews. The caravanist's biographies allow us to look at both the specifics of this phenomenon and the form of tourism, as well as the functioning of Czech society in the period of so-called normalization and years after. The research as an “insider-caravanist” and the editing of available material resulted in a printed book that maps the historical development and transformations of CC Pilsen from a personal perspective.
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Oral history and its place in Czech journalism on the example of Tales of the 20th Century on Czech Radio
Dvořák, Vilém ; Lovaš, Karol (advisor) ; Gulda, Jana (referee)
Since 2006, Czech Radio has broadcast a weekly programme called Tales of the 20th Century, which is produced by journalists Adam Drda and Mikuláš Kroupa. The programme is a journalistic unit, but its primary source is oral history interviews with witnesses of the last century from the Memory of the Nation collection. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the programme on the basis of quantitative and qualitative methods and to place it in the continuum of oral history and journalism. The theoretical part deals with oral history, its purpose and development, as well as the differences between journalistic and oral history approaches to the interview method. Through a quantitative content analysis of 773 episodes broadcast between 1 May 2006 and 1 May 2021, the research itself identifies who the show's typical memoirists are, what topics are most often covered by the show, what representation of men and women are present, and in which regions the stories most often take place, while also exploring how these characteristics change depending on the presenter. According to the research, men are more represented on the programme, with political prisoners of the 1950s being the most common topic, followed by Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans and clergymen. By describing the typical...
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A Biographical Study of Vida Neuwirthova: The Influence of Family Heritage on her Artistic Life and Work
Hradecká, Markéta ; Wohlmuth Markupová, Jana (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
A BiographicalStudy of VidaNeuwirthova: The Influence ofFamilyHeritage on herArtistic Life and Work Using biographical methodology within contemporary historic studies, this thesis aims to present interpretations of life events as they were understood by the main subject of this research - Vida Neuwirthova- based on further analyses and interpretations of oral- historical interviews and other sources. Vida Neuwirthova is known to the public as a popular actress in the famous film Tri veterani (1984), and a dramatic shortcut in the understanding of her life events has influenced her current media image. Detailed biographical study reveals that the core of her life story is based on the discovery early in young adulthood of her Jewish heritage from her paternal family line. This important change in the understanding of her identity influenced the way she activated her artistic performance during the so-called "late normalisation"of the 1980s, founding the children's theater Feigele within the local Prague Jewish community. This period of time was characterized by an authoritarian state regime with a declared antisemitic ideology which tried to suppress and/or assimilate any signs of Jewish identity. In my thesis, I explore a possible change of meaning that Vida Neuwirthova provides in a retrospective...
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The redevelopment of Žižkov at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s
Baklová, Eliška ; Gjuričová, Adéla (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with the refection of the redevelopment of Prague quarter Žižkov at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s in contemporary narratives of the inhabitants of that period. The research uses oral history methods and focuses on subjective perceptions of the accompanying phenomena of the redevelopment, such as the original quality of housing, mental images of the neighbourhood and the displacement of residents. Both from the perspective of those who moved within the neighbourhood and those who had to leave Žižkov. Along with the demolition itself and the transformation of interpersonal relations, the thesis also follows the phenomenon of the construction of housing estates, where many residents from the demolished houses moved. In the synthesizing part, the thesis explores the dimensions of time, gender, nostalgia, and memory of place.
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Pupeteering as a Family Tradition on the Example of the Kopecký Family
Petričáková, Štěpánka ; Wohlmuth Markupová, Jana (advisor) ; Franc, Martin (referee)
The Kopecky family, whose family tradition is associated with puppet theatre, is examined in this thesis, which aims to explore the perception of family tradition in three different branches of the same family. To research this issue, the tradition is also studied in different generations of a given family branch. The narrators were chosen primarily so that individual families did not have closer ties with each other. The theory and methodology of this research are based on concepts of oral history and family memory. Matěj Kopecký, sometimes referred to as the patriarch of the Czech puppetry, was a puppeteer from Mirotice. The art of puppeteering has been passed down from generation to generation and is currently alive for the ninth generation. It brings the question, how is the family tradition in the present and how is it passed on? What exactly constitutes a family tradition? Key words: family, tradition, oral history, Matěj Kopecký, marionettes, marionette theatre
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The Beginnings of Czech Private Higher Education (on the case study of the University of Finance and Administration)
Straková, Magdalena ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Krátká, Lenka (referee)
Počátky českého soukromého vysokého školství na případové studii Vysoké školy finanční a správní Bc. Magdalena Straková ABSTRACT The thesis Beginnings of Czech Private Universities, based on the case study of the University of Finance and Administration, addresses the period from 1999 until 2009 when an amendment of the Higher Education Act enabled the creation of the first private universities. It maps and structures the field from the perspective of oral history in a case study of one of the first private universities. The thesis divides the school's history into three parts: preparation of the project and creation of the school, the period of growth, and the time of emergence of the first quality and reputation issues. It also answers the question of how much the existence of private universities changed the sector of tertiary education. KEY WORDS The University of Finance and Administration, private university, tertiary education, oral history, case study
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New paths to recent music: Archives, documentation centres, and museums related to Czech popular music
Opekar, Aleš
The article presents a comprehensive view of documenting the history of popular music in the contemporary Czech Republic. After a historical introduction, outlining the broader historical context of the domestic situation and a brief context of the situation abroad, the author introduces new institutions, mostly non-profit organizations, which began to emerge after 1989 with the aim of collecting, archiving, and making available archival materials which tell the history of various areas of Czech and Czechoslovak popular music and culture. Through their activities, they have replaced, and continue to do it, the nonexistent interest in this area of culture on the part of the state, which persisted from the pre1989 period (that is before the fall of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia). Self-help activities are gradually finding their interdependence with, if not anchorage in, the state or academic environment. The archival and museum institutions established after 1989 focused on the previously neglected area of popular music and unofficial culture – such as Libri prohibiti, Popmuseum, Centre for the Study of Popular Culture, and Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures – cooperate with each other and with those previously established.
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