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Adam Stewart is the founder of the thriving Prague Youth Theatre. He is also a leading member of the Cimrman English Theatre, which performs much-loved Czech comic plays. Meet Czech composer, conductor and educator Jiří Trtík in the latest episode of Faces of Czech Music. Czech Republic, News coverage, interviews, features and an online ...
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Pavel to sign pension reform if approved by Senate. 11/09/2024. President Petr Pavel told Czech TV he would sign the pension reform bill if it passes the Senate. Approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the controversial reform gradually raises the retirement age to 67. While the coalition argues the reform will secure funds for future pensions and ...
Rising opera star Patricia Burda Janečková succumbs to cancer at 25
Oct 8, 2023 — Soprano Patricia Burda Janečková was one of the bright lights of the opera world. Her young life and promising career were tragically cut short by cancer to which she succumbed at the age of 25. She died on October 1, 2023. Born in Germany to Slovak parents, Patricia Burda Janečková grew up in Ostrava, where she studied opera at the ...
Pop singer Helena Vondráčková still going strong
Helena Vondráčková, one of the Czech Republic’s biggest pop stars, will turn 75 next week. She can look back on a career spanning five decades and boast of being the country’s best-selling singer with over a million albums under her belt. Vondráčková first stood in the spotlight in 1964 when at the age of 17 she won a national talent ...
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The Laichter house family: descendant of famous publisher renovates stunning Vinohrady building. We pay a visit to Laichter House, one of the most impressive buildings in Prague’s Vinohrady, designed by famous Czech architect Jan Kotěra for …
Meet the Liberec-based English teacher whose videos are a global …
Length of audio 19:09. English teacher Steve Watts was born in Great Britain, but he is currently the Czech Republic’s most popular YouTuber. His education channel Steve and Maggie has over 12 million subscribers and his videos, translated into seven languages, including Spanish and Hindi, have altogether over two billion views.
Czechs and Germans in 1930s Czechoslovakia: a complex picture
Nov 9, 2019 — Czechs and Germans in 1930s Czechoslovakia: a complex picture. Length of audio 29:47. Sudeten Germans in 1938, photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-58507-003 / CC-BY-SA 3.0. The Czech Radio archives give us a rich and nuanced picture of the months leading up to the Munich Agreement of September 1938 that resulted in Nazi Germany annexing huge areas of ...
Pop-star Helena Vondráčková among this year’s Thalia Award …
Oct 7, 2024 — Among the recipients of this year’s Thalia Award for lifetime achievement was one of Czechia’s biggest pop-stars, Helena Vondráčková. The singer, whose career spans six decades, was awarded for her mastery in the musical theatre. Her most notable roles include Fantine in Les Miserables or Donna in Mamma Mia.
The split of Czechoslovakia: context, reasons, and lessons for the ...
Jan 1, 2013 — JM: “I don’t share this view. Of course, Slovaks raised some requirements during each of the international crises. But on the other hand, Slovaks generally supported Czechoslovakia at those times – take for example the mobilization of 1938 when even leaders of the autonomistic Slovak People’s Party called for the …
A quick history of the Czech language. - Radio Prague International
Jan 1, 1998 — Czech culture blossomed under the 14th century emperor, Charles IV, but faced turbulent times with the Hussite wars that came soon afterwards. With the onset of rule by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, Czech went into decline as a written language, with German becoming the language of the elite. Czech remained the language of the countryside.