Havel and Germany
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: January 29, 2015, 14:00 – 17:30
After assuming the office of president at the end of 1989, Václav Havel began building new foreign relations. As soon as January 2 he travelled to Berlin in the German Democratic Republic and Munich in the Federal Republic of Germany.
On the anniversary of the German occupation he issued a symbolic invitation to visit Prague to Richard von Weizsacker. These moves launched a process of conciliation and cooperation between the two nations. Reflection and the future of relations between the then Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany are part of a series focused on the important foreign trips undertaken by Václav Havel in 1990.
14:00-15:30 hod. Panel remembring the travel from 1990:
Antje Vollmer, František Černý, Milan Horáček, Joachim Bruss,
chaired by Eva va de Rakt
16:00-17:30 hod. Panel about current relations between Germany and the Czech Republic:
Jiří Fajt, Tomáš Kafka, Zuzana Jürgens, Hans-Jörg Schmidt,
chaired by Tomáš Sacher
In cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Prague. Part of the series Our return to the map of the world.
(c) ČTK/Matička Petr
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- Havel and Germany January 30, 2015