[Erikita]

Als we het hebben over bekende Tsjechen uit het heden en verleden, kunstenaars, politici, schrijvers, sportmensen, popsterren, wetenschappers, acteurs etc, wie moet er volgens jullie zeker genoemd worden en waarom?

Heb je misschien nog een internetlink of boektip om meer informatie te krijgen over zo iemand, plaats hem dan hier

[Josef]

Van vroeger:

Smetana, Dvorak en Janacek: componisten

van nu:

Nedved, Baros en Galasek: voetballers

En natuurlijk vele andere bekende Tsjechen, maar dat laat ik aan de anderen over.

S pozdravem,
Josef

[PuNkEnStEiN]

Hoewel eigenlijk een Slowaak, vind ik toch dat hij genoemd moet worden in deze topic vanwege zijn invloed op de Tsjechische ontstaansgeschiedenis:



Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992)

De (te) vroege voorbode van het einde van de communistische dictatuur achter het "IJzeren gordijn". Onder Dubcek werd o.a. de censuur afgeschaft, burgers mochten vrij kritiek uiten op de overheid en vakbonden kregen meer vrijheden.
De hervormingen werden met achterdocht bekeken door de Sovjet Unie en - ondanks massaal verzet van de Tsjechoslowaakse bevolking - hardhandig de kop ingedrukt door troepen van het Warschau Pact die het land in 1968 binnenvielen (zie de foto's hieronder). Dubcek werd uit de partij gezet en er werd een nieuwe regering geinstalleerd die alle hervormingen terugdraaide. Daarmee kwam er een voortijdig einde aan wat algemeen bekend is geworden als de "Praagse Lente".









Pas in 1989 kwam er - na de Fluwelen Revolutie - een einde aan de communistische alleenheerschappij in Tsjechoslowakije. Alexander Dubcek werd gerehabiliteerd en benoemd tot voorzitter van de Nationale Assemblee. Hij overleed in 1992 aan de gevolgen van een verkeersongeluk.

[Juutje]

Havel, Vaculík

[Juutje]

Milos Forman

[Josef]

Vroeger:
Agnes van Bohemia
King Wenceslas IV.
Jan Hus
Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
Thomas Garrique Masaryk
Sigmund Freud
Bedrich Smetana
Antonin Dvorak
Leos Janacek
Alphonse Mucha
Franz Kafka
Karel Capek
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Otto Wichterle
Jiri Kolar

Tegenwoordig:
Madeleine Allbright
Milan Kundera
Milos Forman

Minder bekend:
Olbram Zoubek (beeldhouwer)

[Juutje]

Hoe heette eigenlijk die hardloper die in vroeger tijd zoveel gewonnen had op de Olympische Spelen? Ik ben zijn naam ff kwijt.

[Elke]

Emil Zapotek (ceska lokomotiva ) ?

[Waelkens]

Hokej:
Jaromír Jágr
Petr Cajanek
Milan Hejduk
Cechmanek
Vokoun
Hasek
...

Zpevak:
Karel Gott

andere:
Ivana Trump

ik kom nu niet meer op andere namen

[Erikita]

Misschien leuk om iets meer over deze mensen te lezen:

Miloš Forman (1932-)
Czech born Academy Award winning movie director who emigrated to the USA in 1968. The movies he directed include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981), Valmont (1989), Amadeus (1984), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Man on the Moon (1999).</font>

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Austrian-Czech writer born in Prague, one of the most significant and influential figures in the 20th century literature. He wrote in German and his best known novels are The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and America (1927).</font>

Milan Kundera (1929-)
Has lived in France since 1975, persuaded to self-exile by the censoring or suppression of his work by the government of his native country. Kundera has long denied any political motivation in his writings, however. His work is always humorous, skeptical, and fundamentally pessimistic in describing the universal human condition, whether under Communism or elsewhere. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979; Eng. trans., 1980) is his most celebrated novel. Other highly regarded works include The Joke (1967; Eng. trans., 1982); Laughable Loves, a collection of short stories originally published in the 1960s (Eng. trans., 1974); Life Is Elsewhere (1969; Eng. trans., 1974); and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; Eng. trans., 1984). In The Art of the Novel (1988), a collection of essays, Kundera repeats his conviction that the novel must be "autonomous," created independent of any system of political belief.

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
Famous Art nouveau painter and poster designer who spent most of his life in France. Many of his works were created for the French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Mucha also designed unique advertisements for various products.

Meer over Mucha

Martina Navrátilová (1956-)
Professional tennis player born in Prague, Czechoslovakia*. Started playing professional tennis in 1972 and emigrated to the USA in 1975. Won Wimbledon six times in a row (1982 - 1987) and set several records during her career. Won 167 singles championships and 158 professional tennis titles, and became the oldest tennis player who beat a no. 1 ranked tennis professional (then Monica Seles) at the age of 37. Retired from playing singles in 1994.

Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
A composer, remembered especially for his set of six symphonic poems, Ma Vlast (My Country).
Smetana is noted as being the first composer to write music that was specifically Czech in character. Many of his operas are on Czech themes, with the best known being the comedy, The Bartered Bride (1866). He used many Czech dance rhythms and his melodies sometimes resemble folk songs. He was a great influence on Antonin Dvorak, who similarly used Czech themes in his works.

Jan Amos Komensky (1592 -1670)
Was a teacher educator and writer, known as teacher of nations''. First and foremost he was a Brethren protestant bishop, a religious refugee, a great European and a believer in non-violence.

Tomás Bata (1876 -1932)
Was the founder of Bata Shoe Organization, one of the world's biggest multinational retailer, manufacturer and distributor of footwear and accessories.
By the early 1930s, the Bata enterprise and Czechoslovakia were the world's leading footwear exporters.
Tomas is also widely regarded as a businessman with an acute sense of social consciousness. He is quoted by many as one of the first pioneers of employee welfare and social advancement programs. He is credited with efforts to modernize his hometown providing the people with employment, and housing facilities, making him a very popular citizen in the town. He also became the mayor of Zlin. Tomas Bata died in a plane crash in 1932. After his demise, his family continued to be at the helm of affairs. Today the company operates in 68 countries.

Karel Čapek (1890 - 1938)
Was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.
Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known not only for interesting and exact descriptions of reality, but also for his excellent work with the Czech language.
Later, in the 1930s, Čapek's work focused on the threat of brutal Nazi and fascist (but also Communist) dictatorships. His most productive years corresponded with the existence of the first republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1938). He wrote Talks with T.G. Masaryk, a Czech patriot and first President of Czechoslovakia and a regular guest at Čapek's Friday garden parties for Czech patriots. This extraordinary relationship between the great author and the great political leader is perhaps unique, and is known to have been an inspiration to Vaclav Havel.
Karel Čapek died in the December preceding the outbreak of World War II and was interred in the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague. Soon after, it became clear that the Western allies had refused to help defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler. He refused to eat or leave his country and died of double pneumonia. The Gestapo had ranked him as "public enemy number 2" in Czechoslovakia.
After the war, Čapek's work was only reluctantly accepted by the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia, since during his life he had refused to believe in a communist utopia as a viable alternative to the threat of Nazi domination.

Jozef Capek (1887 – 1945)
Was a noted painter. First a painter of the Cubist school, he later developed his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories. Due to his critical attitude towards Nazism and Adolf Hitler, he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939. He wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, where he died in 1945.

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904)
Famous composer of classical music.
He studied music in Prague's Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and through the 1860s played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theatre Orchestra which was from 1866 conducted by Bedrich Smetana.
From 1892 to 1895, Dvořák was director of the National Conservatory in New York City, and it was during his visit to the United States that he wrote his most popular work, the Symphony No.9 "From the New World".
Dvořák eventually returned to Prague where he was director of the conservatoire from 1901 until his death in 1904.

Bronnen: Nation Master &amp; My Czech Republic