Library team

Martin C. Putna  (Director)

University professor at Charles University in Prague.

Hájek Pavel  (Senior manager)

Pavel Hájek (1977) is a PhD in Cultural Studies, sales and marketing manager (State Opera Prague), and book designer (Malá Skála Publishing House). He is the author of works of fiction (“Kráska a Netvor”, “Měsíc v parku”) and of studies on the cultural and historical development of the Czech landscape “Česká krajina a baroko” and “Jde pevně kupředu naše zem”. He is also one of the authors of the literary historical essay “Cavismus - membra disiecta 1917-1934”, the anthology “Krajina zevnitř” and the book “Krajina a revoluce”.

Jan Hron  (Editor – archivist)

Jan Hron (1981) graduated from the Department of Bohemian Studies and Comparative Literature. He has worked as an editor on Czech Radio and in Aktuálně.cz as well as a lector of the educational department of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lucie Prachařová  (Production)

Lucie Prachařová (1955) graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport. She studied a pedagogic combination of the Czech language and physical education. She worked at the Department of Physical Education in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, then at the department of youth and sports of the Central Bohemia Region’s authority where she was responsible for organising school competitions in the region. At the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, she was active in the area of socially pathological phenomena and prevention at school.

The Czech Fate – essay

„I don’t believe in that Fate at all and I think that in the first instance we are engineers of our own fate… After all, what happened did not happen because we are Czechs and Czechs always have to suffer at the hands of their neighbours (because that is their “Czech Fate”), but for quite different , more specific reasons.“

Václav Havel:
The Czech Fate – essay
February 1969