biographies and memoirs(57)

Svět Václava Ciglera

This long-awaited dialogue between two prominent figures – journalist and writer Karel Hvížďala and the doyen of fine arts, glass-maker, ...

Studentské hnutí odporu

The personality of Josef Šárka (1918–2008) is connected with significant milestones in the fight against totalitarian regimes in Czechosl...

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

Seven Days to the Funeral

Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalised memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozn...

Rozmluvy s Antonínem Švehlou a o Švehlovi

This memoir-based text written by Czech journalist, diplomat and author, Karel Mečíř, is devoted to Antonín Švehla, a Czech politician, s...

Vzpomínky agrárního diplomata Karla Mečíře

Příběhy budování občanského sektoru v České republice po roce 1989

Stories of the Building of the Civic Sector in the Czech Republic after 1989 presents a new perspective on the formation of the civic sec...

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

Dopisy z nacistického a komunistického žaláře / Briefe aus der NS-Haft und aus dem kommunistischen Gefängnis

Pražská škola v korespondenci

The Prague School became an icon in world linguistics of the 20th century: based on the Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Sau...

Dopisy z let 1924–1989

Poznámky k revoluční akci v Chicagu (1914–1918)

Alois Richard Nykl (1885–1958), an American of Czech origin, is primarily known as a linguist, polyglot and Orientalist. Having traveled ...

Plzeň punková a metalová

Punková a metalová alternativní hudební scéna v Plzni (1983–1995)​

Paměti Františka Jana Vaváka, souseda a rychtáře milčického z let 1770–1816

František Jan Vavák (1741–1816) was the most important of the Czech peasant amateur writers. Lacking any formal education, through self-s...

Kniha VI–VII (1810–1816)

Paměti

In his memoirs, this world-famous gastroenterologist encapsulates his life and scholarly experience, recollects his father and presents h...