Czech Culture Days in Greifswald

The Teaching Unit for the Czech Language at the University of Greifswald’s Department of Slavonic Studies invites audiences to the third Czech Culture Days from 18 to 27 October 2023 that it has organised in collaboration with the Koeppenhaus Greifswald and the Czech Centre Berlin. This year’s festival focuses on “Divided Societies”, addressing the current developments of schisms in our societies. All of the events will be held in German.

Czech author Viktorie Hanišová shall present the German translation of her novel Anežka in a reading at the Koeppenhaus on 18 October 2023 at 8.00 p.m. It is a story about maternal roles and everyday racism that gets right under the skin.

The feature film “Emergency Situation” (Mimořádná událost) by Jiří Havelka will be shown in cooperation with the Filmclub Casablanca in the STRAZE at 8.00 p.m. on 23 October 2023. In a trenchant manner and loaded with black humour, the film tells the story of a train that suddenly finds itself rolling through the landscape without a driver. The passengers who couldn’t be any more different and would usually not speak a word to one another in their everyday lives are forced to work together.

As part of a podium discussion, the historian Zuzana Lizcová (CZ) and the writer and historian Simon Strauß (D) will analyse the current development of schisms in society, elucidating their origins in a round with journalist Tamina Kutscher at 7.30 p.m. on 24 October at the Koeppenhaus.

The new German film “Räuber Hotzenplotz” (2022) that will be shown at the Koeppenhaus on 27 October 2023 at 4.00 p.m. in cooperation with the Filmclub Casablanca remembers Ottfried Preußler, who was born in Reichenberg/Liberec and would have celebrated his 100th birthday in October.

The Czech Culture Days are financed by the University of Greifswald and the Sparkasse Vorpommern, the Literaturzentrum Vorpommern/Koeppenhaus [de], the Czech Literary Centre/CzechLit, and the Society of Bohemian Studies e.V. in Munich, as well as the State Office for Political Education M-V and the initiative Live Democracy: Partnership for Democracy.

Further information
Programme: https://slawistik.uni-greifswald.de/it/tschechische-kulturtage/ [de]
Czech Centre Berlin https://berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/ [de]

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Contact at the University of Greifswald
Ivana Terš Čechova
Department of Slavonic Studies
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3, 17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 3212
ivana.terscechovauni-greifswaldde
www.slawistik.uni-greifswald.de/en

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