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Three candidates shortlisted for the 2023 Václav Havel Prize  05/09/23

The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the 2023 Award. Meeting in Prague today, the panel – made up of independent figures from the world of human rights and chaired by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Tiny Kox – decided to shortlist the following three nominees, in alphabetical order: More

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Three candidates shortlisted for the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize  06/09/22

The discussion among the seven-member jury helmed by the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe centred on the importance of the issue of human rights during this tense period. The finalists include Vladimir Kara-Murza, a political prisoner and leading Russian democracy campaigner; Ukraine’s 5 AM Coalition, which gathers evidence of human rights abuses stemming from Russia’s invasion of the country; and Hungary’s Rainbow Coalition defending LGBTQIA+ rights. “This year’s selection reflects the central role that human rights play in the current European crisis,” says Michael Žantovský, jury member and executive director of the Václav Havel Library, which bestows the prize in cooperation with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Nadace Charty 77.

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The Other Europe  27/04/22

Dear Friends, After three years we have completed the international project The Other Europe, during which, in cooperation with partner institutions, we have processed and made public recordings of interviews shot in 1987 and 1988 behind the Iron Curtain, and in exile, with important representatives of the opposition and the arts, as well as random citizens. Over those three years we have prepared video, audio and text of 106 interviews in speakers’ native languages and English translation. Despite public health restrictions in the Covid period, we have jointly prepared 16 international conferences and public presentations in six Central and Eastern European states. More

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From Schuman to Havel – what next?  16/02/22

The Václav Havel Library is a proud partner of the project Beyond Robert Schuman’s Europe More

Program for September 2016<>

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Martin Nekola: Czechoslovak Exiles After 1948

Martin Nekola: Czechoslovak Exiles After 1948

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 8, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

The world of exiles after 1948 and the fates of Czechoslovaks who strove to return freedom and democracy to a homeland where power had been seized by the Communists are an essential part of our modern history. However, there is marginal research into the subject and the public has no more than fragmentary information about it.

On the basis of his own long years of research in domestic and foreign archives, the speaker will outline the most important émigré organisations, personalities and newspapers and place Czechoslovak exiles in the context of the broader European situation and international developments at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s.

The lecture will be delivered by political scientist, historian and independent researcher Martin Nekola. 

China: One Country, Two Faces

China: One Country, Two Faces

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 8, 2016, 17:30 – 18:30

Meeting with beauty pageant titleholder and human rights advocate Anastasia Lin. In 2015 Lin won the Miss World Canada title and was to represent Canada at the Miss World pageant in China. However, she was refused a visa and declared persona non grata by the Chinese authorities for her outspoken views on the country’s human rights violations and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

The event will be both in english and czech language.

Chaired by Pavel Porubiak.

In cooperation with the NGO Lidská práva bez hranic.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution After 50 Years

The Chinese Cultural Revolution After 50 Years

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 12, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

This year marks half a century since the unleashing of the so-called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. In its time the radical campaign, today officially dubbed the “10 years of chaos” (1966–1976) in China itself, spoke to millions of participants and had a great many ideological fellow travellers in the West and the developing world. Its impact and influence are still apparent to this day. Sinologists Olga Lomová and Martin Hála will discuss the essence and legacy of this mass campaign.

Evening organised in cooperation with Sinopsis, a project of the Institute of Far East Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and the association AcaMedia. 

Debate with Respekt

Debate with Respekt

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 13, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Discussion with Respekt editors and their guests on a topical issue. More information will be posted at least one week before the event at www.vaclavhavel-library.org

Evenings with Polish Reporters IV:  Romanies, or Gypsies?

Evenings with Polish Reporters IV: Romanies, or Gypsies?

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 14, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

In post-communist countries the Romany minority face constant discrimination and social exclusion. At the same time they are divided by disputes over their own identity, their traditional culture is subject to external interference and an educated Romany elite is only slowly emerging. The situation of the Roma in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and other European countries will be discussed by reporter Lidia Ostałowska and journalist and Roma Studies expert Saša Uhlová.

Another meeting in a joint discussion series held in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague in which we explore the phenomenon of the Polish school of literary reporting and its most notable contemporary representatives. 

Lidia Ostałowska is the author of two books of reportage focused on the Roma, their culture, history and current situation. A Czech translation of the collection A Gypsy is a Gypsy (Cikán je Cikán, Dokořán a Jaroslava Jiskrová – Máj), in which the writer visits Romanies in north Bohemia, Bulgarian villages and Romanian ghettos was published this year. A second book, Water Colours (Akvarely pro Mengeleho, P3K 2014) returns to the forgotten Roma Holocaust and, against that backdrop, Romanies’ understanding of the past and the changing interpretation of European history. 

Svatava Antošová: Performance

Svatava Antošová: Performance

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 15, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Evening dedicated to the Teplice poet, prose writer and journalist Svatava Antošová.

She wrote the poetry cycle Performance in 2014, dedicating it to the then seriously ill performer Milan Kozelek (1948–2014). Alongside that collection, the author will read from the prose Skoby/Punkt Memory (Staples/Punkt Memory) (Milan Hodek, 2012), an allegory of the state of the world today and its problems – all with the musical accompaniment of multi-instrumentalist Iveta Kratochvílová.

Mirek Kovářík and Radek Bláha will guest with Antošová’s reworking of Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem A Supermarket in California.

Public Discussion with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

Public Discussion with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 16, 2016, 17:00 – 19:00

Public discussion with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky on current issues, including the recent events in Turkey, Brexit and the future of the EU, the refugee crisis, energy and climate change.

Jan Schakowsky was elected to represent the 9 th Congressional District of Illinois in 1998. Now in her ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, she serves in the House Democratic leadership as a Chief Deputy Whip. Among her long-term policy priorities are quality health care, social security, women’s issues, and immigration reform. She is also active in the fields of national security and foreign affairs.

Jan Schakowsky is a strong leader from Illinois, a state that has a significant number of Czech-American constituents; it is also the home state of President Obama. She has a strong interest in the Czech Republic, as well as in Central Europe as a whole. She serves as co-chair of the Czech Caucus in the House of Representatives.

The debate will be chaired by the Vice-President of Aspen Institute Prague, Michael Žantovský, and will be held in English under the Chatham House rule.

The event is organized in cooperation with the Aspen Institute Prague and the American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFoCR).

Whose Media, Whose Interests? Ownership, Public Sphere and Online Space

Whose Media, Whose Interests? Ownership, Public Sphere and Online Space

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 18, 2016, 09:30 – 18:00

The aim of the conference is to critically reflect upon some of the main issues which currently surround debates about the performance of media in the Czech Republic and Central Europe in general, namely the changing models of media ownership, the independence of public service broadcasting, as well as the spreading of disinformation and propaganda via the social network sites.

The conference is jointly organized by the Václav Havel Library, Aspen Institute Prague and the Centre for the Study of Political Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, Charles University in Prague, with support from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford and Sekyra Group.

The conference was simultaneously translated into Czech.

9:30 Registration at Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction
•    Michael Žantovský, Václav Havel Library
•    Pavel Bělobrádek, Deputy Prime Minister

10:15 – 12:15 Media ownership and journalistic autonomy (Video)
•    Keynote speaker: John Lloyd, Financial Times and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

•    Panelists:
•    Matúš Kostolný, Editor-in-Chief, Daily N, Slovakia
•    Tamás Bodoky, Editor-in-Chief, Atlatzso.hu, Hungary
•    Dalibor Balšínek, Editor-in-Chief Echo 24
•    Petr Kamberský, Lidové noviny
•    Roman Latuske, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO, Economia, a.s

Moderator: Václav Štětka, Loughborough University

12:15 – 13:15 lunch break

13:15 – 15:15 The role and independence of public service media (Video)
•    Keynote speaker: Christian Nissen, Copenhagen Business School, fmr Director General of Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and member of the EBU Administrative Council

•    Panelists:

•    Jacek Żakowski, publicist, Poland
•    Filip Rožánek, Editor-in-Chief, Marketing & Media
•    Istvan Hegedus, chairman of Hungarian Europe Society

Moderator: David Levy, RISJ, University of Oxford

15:15 – 15:45 coffee break

15:45– 17:45 New media, propaganda and manipulation (Video)

•    Keynote: Brian Whitmore, senior Russia analyst and author of Vertical Blog, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

•    Panelists:
•    Ivana Smolenová, Prague security studies institute
•    Monika Richter, University of Oxford
•    Kristina Potapova, Martens Centre
•    Jindřich Šídlo, journalist, Seznam.cz

Moderator: Michael Žantovský, Václav Havel Library

17:45-18:00 Closing remarks: Jiří Schneider, Aspen Institute Prague

Zafer Senocak: Between Two Worlds

Zafer Senocak: Between Two Worlds

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 19, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Zafer Senocak is a renowned German poet of Turkish origin whose creative language also straddles two worlds. In his essays and media work he explores the situation of several generations of migrants living in Europe and the concepts of home and borders.

The discussion will focus on the current turmoil in Turkey and the situation of those who are searching for freedom beyond their homeland.

Senocak’s books (Gefährliche Verwandtschaft, Atlas des tropischen Deutschland, War Hitler Araber?) have been translated into several languages and an anthology from the In the New World collections was published in Czech by the Fra publishing house in 2008.

Evening held as part of the accompanying programme of the 36th World Congress of Poets and in connection with the 115th anniversary of the birth of Jaroslav Seifter. 

Václav Benda – Politician

Václav Benda – Politician

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 21, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Evening dedicated to what would have been the 70th birthday of Václav Benda, a Catholic, right-wing politician, Charter 77 spokesman and founder and first chairman of the Christian Democratic Party.

Without František Janouch Even the Sea Doesn’t Slosh

Without František Janouch Even the Sea Doesn’t Slosh

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 22, 2016, 18:00 – 20:00

Bez Františka Janoucha ani moře nešplouchá (Without František Janouch Even the Sea Doesn’t Slosh) is the title of a new book, subtitled Mozaika výpovědi svědků jednoho neobyčejného života (A Mosaic of Testimonies of Witnesses to One Extraordinary Life), being presented at the Václav Havel Library on the occasion of the 85th birthday of František Janouch. A nuclear physicist after emigrating to Sweden Janouch set up the Charter 77 Foundation, which sent funds to help local dissidents in Czechoslovakia. Post-1989 he succeeded in finding a new role for the foundation, with the Barriers Account becoming one of the most significant Czech charity organisations. 

Moderated by Michael Žantovský.

In cooperation with the Charter 77 Foundation and the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre.

Jiří Dědeček: Ballads from the Banking Sector

Jiří Dědeček: Ballads from the Banking Sector

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 26, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

The poet and songwriter will read from his forthcoming tragicomic collection Balady z bankovního sektoru (Ballads from the Banking Sector). In addition he will perform a number of songs and chansons (including his own translations of Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Boris Vian). That will be followed by a reading from the legendary book Oběžník (Circular), which first came out in Munich in 1988 and was most recently issued by the publishers Limonádový Joe.

Informal evening of readings, songs and chat.

Introduced by Jáchym Topol.

Andrej “Bandy” Šoltes: My Uzzhorod

Andrej “Bandy” Šoltes: My Uzzhorod

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 27, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

The Ukrainian writer Andrej Šoltes introduces his home city, whose history is bound to the fate of several generations of his ancestors who – though they never left Uzzhorod – were citizens of five different states. They survived WWII, endured prison and the camps as Soviet citizens and would rather not discuss the past…

Šoltes presents Uzzhorod as a fascinating crossroads, forever on the periphery and distant from current events. As a city for which the border plays a fatal role and where three or four languages are spoken. What changes and what persists? And how has the westernmost metropolis in Ukraine been impacted by the current war?

Uzzhorod Praguer Pavo Kryšenyk will interpret and also speak. 

Václav Vacek: Are Western, Christian Values in Ruins?

Václav Vacek: Are Western, Christian Values in Ruins?

  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 29, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Do we know them? Don’t they appeal to us? Do we live by different ones? Are we abandoning them? Are we foreigners in our own culture?
Evening with the Roman Catholic priest and writer, who was once active in the dissent and Charter 77 circles and ranks amongst the most progressive voices in the contemporary church.

Tabook – Festival of Good Publishers in Tábor

Tabook – Festival of Good Publishers in Tábor

  • Where: Tábor, Czech Republic
  • When: September 29, 2016, 09:30 – October 1, 2016, 21:00

Stand and presentation of both new books and tried and tested titles.

Havel Channel

Havel Channel je audiovizuální projekt Knihovny Václava Havla, jehož cílem je šířit myšlenkový, literární a politický odkaz Václava Havla, bez ohledu na vzdálenost, zeměpisné hranice či nouzové stavy. Jeho páteř tvoří debaty, vzdělávací projekty a rozhovory. Velký prostor je věnován též konferencím, autorským čtením, záznamům divadelních inscenací a koncertům. Audiovizuální projekt Knihovny Václava Havla Havel Channel se uskutečňuje díky laskavé podpoře Karel Komárek Family Foundation.

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Publications / E-shop

The central focus of the Library’s publishing programme is the life and work of Václav Havel, his family and close collaborators and friends. For clarity, the programme is divided into six series: Václav Havel Library Notebooks, Václav Havel Library Editions, Student Line, Talks from Lány, Václav Havel Documents, Works of Pavel Juráček and Václav Havel Library Conferences. Titles that cannot be incorporated into any of the given series but which are nonetheless important for the Library’s publishing activities are issued independently, outside the series framework.

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Conferences & prizes

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Václav Havel European Dialogues

The Václav Havel European Dialogues is an international project that aims to initiate and stimulate a discussion about issues determining the direction of contemporary Europe while referring to the European spiritual legacy of Václav Havel. This idea takes its main inspiration from Václav Havel’s essay “Power of the Powerless”. More than other similarly focused projects, the Václav Havel European Dialogues aims to offer the “powerless” a platform to express themselves and in so doing to boost their position within Europe.

The Václav Havel European Dialogues is planned as a long-term project and involves cooperation with other organisations in various European cities. Individual meetings, which take the form of a conference, are targeted primarily at secondary and third-level students, as well as specialists and members of the public interested in European issues.

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Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond.

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Havel - Albright Transatlantic Dialogues

Since the first Václav Havel Transatlantic Dialogues at GLOBSEC and FORUM 2000 conferences last year, we have lost another stalwart advocate of the transatlantic bond and of the need to face threats to democracy and international order together on both sides of the Atlantic, the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In view of the close bond between Václav Havel and Madeleine Albright and, after Havel's death, between the Secretary and the Library, the Václav Havel Library, with the approval of Madeleine Albright's family, renamed and rebranded the program as The Havel-Albright Transatlantic Dialogues (HATD), after the two major figures with roots in Central Europe who have personified the bond. Together, Václav Havel and Madeleine Albright symbolize the transatlantic relationship and the fundamental values underpinning it perhaps better than any other two people in recent history. The upcoming Dialogues “The Indispensable Woman: The Legacy of Madeleine K. Albright”, at the FORUM 2000 conference on September 1, and at the “Havel and our Crisis” conference at Colby College, ME, on September 28, will thus become venues for a well-deserved tribute to the pair we all respected and admired.

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel
* 5. 10. 1936 Praha
† 18. 12. 2011 Hrádeček u Trutnova

1936
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Václav Havel grew up
in a well-known, wealthy entrepreneurial
and intellectual family.
1951
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Václav Havel completed primary schooling. Because
of his "bourgeois" background, options for
higher education were limited.
1951
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Václav Havel worked as a chemical laboratory technician
while attending evening classes at a high school
from which he graduated in 1954.
1955
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Václav Havel studied at the
Economics Faculty of the Czech
Technical University in Prague.
1960
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Václav Havel began working at Prague's Theatre on
the Balustrade, first as a stagehand and later as
an assistant director and literary manager.
1963
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Havel´s first play The Garden
Party was staged at Prague's
Theatre on the Balustrade.
1964
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Václav Havel
married Olga
Splichalova.
1966
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VH finished studies at at the
Theatre Faculty of the Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague .
1968
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Václav Havel played an active role in
democratization and renewal of culture during the
era of reforms, known as Prague Spring.
1969
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Havel's work were banned in Czechoslovakia. He
moved from Prague to the country, continued
his activities against the Communist regime.
1974
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Václav Havel worked as a manual laborer
at a local brewery near Hrádeček in
the north of the Czech Republic.
1975
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Václav Havel wrote an open
letter to President Gustav Husak,
criticizing the government.
1977
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Václav Havel co-founded the Charter 77
human rights initiative and was one
of its first spokesmen.
1978
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Václav Havel co-founded The
Committee for the Defense
of the Unjustly Prosecuted.
1979
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Václav Havel was imprisoned several times
for his beliefs, his longest prison
term lasting from 1979 to 1983.
1989
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Václav Havel emerged as one of the
leaders of the November opposition movement, also
known as the Velvet Revolution.
1990
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Václav Havel is elected
President of Czechoslovakia on
December 29.
1993
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Václav Havel is elected, after the
dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the first President
of the Czech Republic.
1996
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On January
27, Olga
Havlova died.
1997
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Václav Havel married Dagmar Veskrnova,
a popular and acclaimed Czech theatrical,
television and movie actress.
1999
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Václav Havel enabled the entry of
the Czech Republic into the North
Atlantic Treat Organisation (NATO).
2003
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Václav Havel left office after
his second term as Czech
president ended on 2 February 2003.
2004
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Foundation of Václav
Havel Library in
Prague.
2004
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The Czech Republic became the 35th
member State of the Council of
Europe on 30 June 1993.
2010
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Václav Havel directed
a film adaptation of
his play Leaving.
2011
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Václav Havel died at his
summer house Hrádeček in the
north of the Czech Republic.
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Educational projects

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Archive / Documentation centre / Research projects

Dokumentační centrum

The Václav Havel Library is gradually gathering, digitizing, and making accessible written materials, photographs, sound recordings and other materials linked to the person of Václav Havel.

  • 70200 records in total
  • 27196 of events in the VH's life
  • 2831 of VH's texts
  • 2125 of photos 
  • 403of videos
  • 568of audios
  • 6604of letters
  • 15101of texts about VH
  • 8255 of books
  • 40254of bibliography records

Access to the database of the VHL’s archives is free and possible after registering as a user. Accessing archival materials that exist in an unreadable form is only possible at the reading room of the Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, 110 00 Prague 1, every Tuesday (except state holidays) from 9:00 to 17:00, or by prior appointment.

We will be glad to answer your queries at archiv@vaclavhavel-library.org.

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Havel in a nutshell

The virtual exhibition Václav Havel in a Nutshell places the life story of Václav Havel in the broader cultural and historic context in four chronologically distinct chapters with rich visual accompaniment. The exhibition is supplemented by the interactive map Flying the World with Václav Havel, which captures in physical form Havel’s global “footprint”.

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Vladimir Hanzel's revolution

Collage of recollections, images and sound recordings from Vladimír Hanzel, President Václav Havel’s personal secretary, bringing the feverish atmosphere of the Velvet Revolution to life.

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Václav Havel Interviews

A database of all accessible interviews given to print media outlets by the dramatist, writer and political activist Václav Havel between the 1960s and 1989. The resulting collection documents the extraordinary life story of an individual, as well as capturing a specific picture of modern Czechoslovak history at a time when being a free-thinker was more likely to lead to jail than an official public post.

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Pavel Juráček Archive

The Pavel Juráček Archive arose in February 2014 when his son Marek Juráček handed over six banana boxes and a typewriter case from his father’s estate to the Václav Havel Library. Thousands of pages of manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, documents and personal and official correspondence are gradually being classified and digitalised. The result of this work should be not only to map the life and work of one of the key figures of the New Wave of Czechoslovak film in the 1960s, but also to make his literary works accessible in the book series The Works of Pavel Juráček.

The aim of the Václav Havel Library is to ensure that Pavel Juráček finds a place in the broader cultural consciousness and to notionally build on the deep friendship he shared with Václav Havel. Soon after Juráček’s death in 1989 Havel said of him: “Pavel was a friend of mine whom I liked very much. He was one of the most sensitive and gentle people I have known – that’s why I cannot write more about him.”  

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All about Library

The Václav Havel Library works to preserve the legacy of Václav Havel, literary, theatrical and also political, in particular his struggle for freedom, democracy and the defence of human rights. It supports research and education on the life, values and times of Václav Havel as well as the enduring significance of his ideas for both the present and future.

The Václav Havel Library also strives to develop civil society and active civic life, serving as a platform for discussion on issues related to the support and defence of liberty and democracy, both in the Czech Republic and internationally.

The main aims of the Václav Havel Library include

  • Organizing archival, archival-research, documentary, museum and library activities focused on the work of Vaclav Havel and documents or objects related to his activities, and carries out professional analysis of their influence on the life and self-reflection of society
  • Serving, in a suitable manner, such as through exhibitions, the purpose of education and popularisation functions, thus presenting to the public the historical significance of the fight for human rights and freedoms in the totalitarian period and the formation of civil society during the establishment of democracy
  • Organizing scientific research and publication activities in its areas of interest
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Staňte se členy Klubu přátel Knihovny Václava Havla

We believe that we are succeeding in fulfilling the vision of Václav Havel, who, when he founded the Library, declared that it only makes sense as a living organism that occupies an unmissable place in the whole of public and political life. We see this as a commitment and inspiration for the future. We would like to use the footage of our hundreds of events in our own internet TV channel, expand our publication programme, develop more e-learning series, start organising workshops for teachers... But all this will require considerable financial resources. That's why we decided to turn to our visitors and supporters for support.

Pomozte nám inspirovat své okolí i Vy!
Přijdete se k nám a staňte se členem Klubu přátel Knihovny VH!

 

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Financial donations

If you would like to support the work of the Václav Havel Library or its specific activities or projects by means of a financial donation you can do so via the VHL’s PayPal account

Or by bank transfer to:

ČSOB a. s., Na Poříčí 24, 115 20 Praha 1

  • Crown account number 7077 7077 / 0300 CZK
  • Euro account number 7755 7755 / 0300 EUR
  • Dollar account number 7747 7747 / 0300 USD

If an individual makes a donation of over CZK 1,000, or if a company makes a donation of over CZK 2,000, in one calendar year we will create for you a donation contract confirming the amount of the donation involved; the donor can use this to reduce their tax base in compliance with the law on taxation. For more information, contact us.

Donors with US citizenship can support us through the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation New York.

Donations and loans to the VHL archive

The Václav Havel Library administers an archive of written materials, documents, photographs, video recordings and other materials related to the life and work of Václav Havel. The archive is predominantly digital in form. If you or somebody close to you is the owner of original texts, photographs, speeches or other works produced by Václav Havel we would appreciate it greatly if you contacted us. We will oversee the digitalisation of these documents and place them in our digital archive. If you would like to keep possession of such documents or items, we will return them in perfect condition.  

If a copy or original is donated to the Václav Havel Library, the terms of donation and use will in all cases be agreed with the owner. The names of all donors or owners will be listed alongside the documentary materials in question.

Internships

We offer short and long-term internships at the Václav Havel Library to Czech and foreign students. Interns are particularly welcomed in the fields of library studies and archival science, arts management, journalism, Czech Studies and other areas of the humanities.

We welcome knowledge of English (German and French are also a plus), while knowledge of Czech is an advantage for foreign interns.

Internships range in duration from six weeks to one year, while it is possible to agree on individual duration depending on the requirements of schools. On completion of the internship, the participant receives a certificate with an appraisal. Internships take place on the basis of prior agreement with applicants and dates must be agreed around two months in advance. Václav Havel Library internships are unpaid and we do not cover transport or accommodation costs.

If you are interested in an internship at the Václav Havel Library, contact us at the email address:

Media and promotion cooperation with the VHL

The Václav Havel Library welcomes the mutual exchange of links and the publication of our banners and information about our events. For more information, contact us directly.

Volunteers

The Václav Havel Library welcomes volunteers who would like to assist in our work.  

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