Whether artists, business managers, writers, scientists, politicians, folklorists, priests or journalists: who are these Sudeten German, Czech and Jewish women and men from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia who, after decades of political isolation and personal separation, had the courage to get together, get involved in difficult discussions, unearth buried knowledge, make it accessible again, and form friendships? Together, these people have contributed to a new atmosphere of ease and trust.
Petra Flath and Milan Horáček. Adalbert Stifter Verein, Free access - no reuse
Petra Flath and Milan Horáček. Adalbert Stifter Verein, Free access - no reuse
For this exhibition, the Munich photographer Petra Flath captured, in a series of black and white photographs, the faces of 54 individuals from 
Bohemia
deu. Böhmen, lat. Bohemia, ces. Čechy

Bohemia is a historical landscape in present-day Czech Republic. Together with Moravia and the Czech part of Silesia, the landscape forms the present territory of the Czech Republic. Nowadays, almost 6.5 million people live in the region. The capital of Bohemia is Prague.

Böhmen in the Online Encyclopedia of the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (German)
Böhmen at Google Maps
, 
Moravia
deu. Mähren, lat. Moravia, slk. Morava, ces. Morava

Moravia is one of the three historical landscapes of the Czech Republic. Together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia, Moravia constitutes the state territory of the Czech Republic. Moravia is located in the southeast of the country and shares borders with Slovakia, Poland and Austria. Today, almost 3.1 million people live in Moravia. The most important cities in Moravia are Brno, Ostrava and Olomouc.

Mähren in the Online Encyclopedia of the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (German)
Mähren at Google Maps
 and 
Cieszyn Silesia
ces. Těšínské Slezsko, ces. Těšínsko, pol. Śląsk Cieszyński, deu. Teschener Gebiet, deu. Teschener Land, deu. Teschener Raum, deu. Teschener Schlesien, deu. Olsa-Gebiet

The Teschen Silesia is a historical landscape in the northeast of the Czech Republic. The landscape lies on the border between the southern Polish Silesian Voivodeship and the northeastern Czech region of Moravskoslezský kraj.

Teschener Schlesien in the Online Encyclopedia of the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (German)
. Some of these people are well-known, many have been involved professionally in fostering German-Czech communication and understanding, while others have done so in their private lives. Each photograph is accompanied by a short biography, a meaningful quote and handwritten text of the person portrayed.

On display are portraits of the following people: 

Jaromír Boháč, Johann Böhm, Oskar Böse, Hellmut Bornemann, Toman Brod, František Černý, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi , Bohumil Doležal, Helena Faberová, Hugo Fritsch, Jiří Gruša, Widmar Hader, Peter Härtling, Gudrun Heißig, Johanna von Herzogenberg, Milan Horáček , Hellmut Karasek, Ferdinand Graf Kinský, Tomáš Kosta, Jan Křen, Kurt Krolop, Franz Peter Künzel, Peter Kurzeck, Markus Lüpertz, Max Mannheimer, Franz Olbert, Anton Otte, Marianne Passetti, Walter Piverka, Vilém Prečan, Petr Příhoda, František Radkovský, Lida Rakušanová, Peter Rath, Günther Reichert, Rosina Reim, Erwin Scholz, Eduard Schreiber, Lore Schretzenmayer, Harro Senft, Olga Sipp, Josef Škrábek, Ivan Steiger, Oldřich Stránský, Horst Teltschik, Ilse Tielsch, Petr Uhl, Bedřich Utitz, Věra Vohlídalová, Alena Wagnerová, Angelus Waldstein, Fritz Wittmann, Barbara von Wulffen, Zdeněk Zvolský
To the description of the travelling exhibition
Further information about the exhibition
Exhibitor
Adalbert Stifter Verein e.V. (Adalbert Stifter Association)

Hochstraße 8, 81669 München, Germany

Telefon
+49 89 622716-30
Fax
+49 89 622716-59
sekretariat@stifterverein.de
https://www.stifterverein.de/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvDzyN2jS_KmukY_XMSQ5g
https://www.facebook.com/AdalbertStifterVerein/
Contact
Anna Knechtel GND
knechtel@stifterverein.de
Borrowing rules
  • Borrowing the exhibition is free of charge. The borrower covers all expenses incurred (transport to and from Munich, set-up, invitation, opening, insurance, dismantling, packaging). The borrower also covers the travel and accommodation expenses of an employee of the Adalbert Stifter Verein for the set-up. The borrower is obligated to display that this is an exhibition of the Adalbert Stifter Verein. The borrower may purchase posters free of charge and cover up the old exhibition dates with adhesive stickers showing the current dates. A contractual agreement is drawn up for each loan.
Technical specifications
  • 54 portrait enlargements, plate size 75cm x 115cm; lamination on Aludibond 4 mm, with UV protection foil, individual packaging for 2 enlargements 90cm x 120cm, total length of the packaging placed end to end 4.5m

    Bilingual in German and Czech

    Exhibition posters (A1) and info poster 42cm x 118cm are available on request. Bilingual catalogue with all portraits and short biographies, 118 pages, 10 €.
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Literature
  • Adalbert Stifter Verein e.V. (ASV) (eds.): Petra Flath - Porträts aus Böhmen und Mähren, portréty z Čech a Moravy. München 2011.
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