biographies and memoirs(56)

Plzeň punková a metalová

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

Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodiny

This book follows the story of three people in the turbulent 20th century: the life of my mother, my father and me, whose life was affect...

Chvění je naděje

Journalist and essayist Karel Hvížďala is known for his interviews with prominent figures of primarily Czech political and cultural world...

Záznamy od března 2021 do začátku války v únoru 2022

Ohlížím se zpět

Professor Arnold Jirásek (1887–1960), who first came into the public’s view as the doctor who operated on the mortally wounded Jan Opleta...

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...

70 let Stomatologické kliniky v Plzni

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Svět Václava Ciglera

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

On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle

“I love Christmas, that Muslim holiday.” (K. Biebl) In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from ...

Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

Adventures in the Stone Age

When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the K...

A New Guinea Diary

Martyr Christi

P. Adolf Kajpr SJ (1902–1959)

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

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

Korespondence Josefa Zvěřiny a Aleny Falerské

Theologian and former political prisoner Josef Zvěřina (1913–1990) lived in Praskolesy during the early 1970s, but continued to write var...

(1971–1975)