The diploma thesis deals with the history of Lusatian Sorbian grammar schools in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. The grammar schools existed in Česká Lípa, Varnsdorf and Liberec from 1945 to 1950. It also outlines the history of Lusatian Sorbs to the post-war period and describes the meaning of the Czech help for Lusatian Sorbian schools in the historical situation of the rise of German Nazism in 1933 and the complicated situation in Lusatia after 1945. Including the chapter about destinies of former Lusatian Sorbian students. Key words Lusatia, Lusatian Sorbs, grammar school, 1945 - 1950

František Čech-Vyšata (1881-1942) was a Czech traveller and publicist. During his journeys to South America, he realized between years 1914-1917 and 1927-1937 two long-term stays in Brazil. He described his first stay in this country in travelogue V žáru pamp (1927) and another travelogue Středem Jižní Ameriky (1936) he dedicated to his second stay. Particularly in his second travellogue he also gives evidence about Czech compatriot communities in Brazil in between two World wars. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The diploma thesis offers a philological analysis of František Vrba's translation into Czech of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper is composed of three major parts: "Theoretical background", "Hypothesis and Method", and "Analysis". The analysis addresses matters of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, metrical and cultural nature. The analysis focuses on The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale as convenient manifestations of stylistic variation, cross-generic links and structural correspondences and contrasts in The Canterbury Tales. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate the quality of František Vrba's Czech translation.

From the middle to the late eighteenth century, England prospered due to growing number of industries and revenues from foreign trade. Being economically available, people valued quality of lifestyle, including having amateur musical performances in social gatherings. Popular musical productions at the time, other than solo music, included also chamber music, such as accompanied keyboard sonatas. In these types of works, the performers could invite the guests to join in the performance, yet also demonstrating his or her own tastes and skills. František Kocžwara¡¦s (1750-1791) The Battle of Prague was one of the most favored piece of works by the English amateur musicians. Due to its moderate level of required performance skills and magnificent effect of the sounds, the amateur musicians were able to perform well in front of their guests, while bring the atmosphere of musical gathering to a high peak. This paper consists of three sections. The first section discusses the development of English music, its influences from local social factors, ands the rise of amateur musicians. The following section discusses the musical form which is mostly favored by amateur pianist in the late eighteenth century - accompanied keyboard sonatas - with depth into its historical background, social functions, and music arrangement. The final section discusses the life of Czech musician, František Kocžwara, and his accompanied keyboard sonatas published in 1788 The Battle of Prague. Through detailed description of the musical style and relationship between the main and the accompanying parts, a better understanding may be formed regarding the non main-trend composers and the elegant lifestyle of the English amateur musical life.

The submitted thesis Poverty in Theatre is a reflexion of motivation, consequences and importance of voluntary poverty-modesty in the context of contemporary theatre. The opening part of the text introduces the theme from general point of view in relation to the personality of Saint Francis from Assisi, who is not only the iconic figure of the medieval spirituality, but also becomes the source of inspiration for contemporary tendencies and movements and individuals dealing with poverty. The main part of the theses is focused on poverty in the field of art-primarily theatre. The last part describes the creation of the author's performance Pouť, that was inspired by the life of Saint Francis and by the pilgrimage through Italy, which preceded the whole project.

Almost twenty three years after the death of František Jílek, his name is still well known in the narrow professional circles. I myself associate it since my early childhood with the Janáček music and the interpretative precision of his own, which all the musicians remember, who have worked with him for years. In this work I will focus particularly on Jílek´s period in the position of the Chief of the Brno Opera. I will demonstrate his diligence by many reviews of his premiere Opera titles, which have been a lot in almost 30 years of his acting at this position. Furthermore, I would like to mention his teaching at the music faculty of JAMU and the five year term at the position of the Chief conductor of the State Philharmonic Brno.

The aim of this thesis is on examples of František Malkovský (1889-1982), Emanuel Siblík (1886 – 1941) and Zdenka Podhajská (1901-1991) follow the activities of Czech dancers in France from 1910 to 1948 and their relations to local artistic comunities and culture. This work deals with each one separetly and it follows their dance activities since their arrival to France until their return to Czechoslovakia, in case of Malkovsky until his last big dance performance. The centre of their dance careers was mostly Paris but also smaller towns all acros the country where Malkovsky and Podhajska organised their dance performances. Impulses for leaving their homeland and also their dance orientations were different. Main sources of this thesis come from Theatermuseum in Wien and from Département des Arts du spectacle (Bibliothèque nationale de France). It is possible to work further on the theme, to include other Czech persons and to take into account artistic aspects of their activities.

The thesis willbeabout Mr. František Bosák, whowas a pedagogue, historian and camefromtheSouth Bohemian Region. A personality analysisdealswith his character, attitudes to life and familylife. Characterizationofthescientificwork show us not only a coherent list ofBosák'swork, but a viewintothetimewhen he was live, worked and engaged in historicworks as well. František Bosák worked on the University ofSouth Bohemia in České Budějovice for a long time, but he could not get a docent habilitation and publish his scientificworkbefore 1990 becauseofunfavorableofpoliticalscene. This thesis isthefirstessayaboutimportantpedagoguefromtheSouth Bohemia and his life.

In my diplomas´s thesis I deal with a violin creation of Benda family. In the first charter I discuss about the work of Czech musicians and composers abroad - in Germany,Italy, Poland and Russia. The second charter is called " Frantisek Benda". This chapter testifies abou life and work of this man.Then I desribe the life and life of Antonín Benda, František´s brother.The fifth chapter deals with the important moments in the life of the brothers Josef and Jan Jiří Benda and I also remind their violin making. After a brief introduction to the family Benda I approache to the crucial part of that from the sixth chapter I analyze the characteristics of musical expression siblings Benda. First, I pursue four violin sonatas of František Benda. Then I analyze two sonatas of Frantisek´s brother, Jiří Antonín Benda. The eight chapter deals with the Violin Concerto inG major, which was composed by Jan Jiří Benda. Characteristic of musical speech by František, Jiří Antonín and Jan Jiří Benda is the subjectof the last charter of this work. In the conclusion I argue that musical life in this country, the Czech Republic, or currently not forget the musical legacy Benda family.

I chose to write my dissertation work about František Ondříček because of my great interest in the history of violin playing. Czech violin school was represented by many outstanding violinists, who spread the fame of this school all over the world. About the most famous Czech violinist, Jan Kubelík, I wrote already when studying at the Prague Conservatory. However, an other excellent violinist captured my attention and interest and it was František Ondříček, whose art carrer can be justly called worldwide. The biggest impluse for me to write about this artist was my listening to his two recordings, which I have recently managed to get. These particular recordings offer us a new view at František Ondříček, while up to now this violinist has been judged only on the basis of contemporary reviews. In my dissertation I tried to findout, if his violin playing can capture attention of nowaday audience and if the listeners can perceive and consider his playing as up-to-date. František Ondříček was closely linked with the tradition of legendary violinist N.Paganini. This fact can bring the art of this violinist nearer to us and to our perception. For all these reasons I consider František Ondříček as a very important personality in the history of violin playing.