In its first part, the thesis deals with Guy de Maupassant's life, the importance of short stories in his work, their reception in the French and Czech literary milieu as well as their uniqueness in the context of the literary movements of the 19th century. As a part of the thesis, an overview of the Czech translations of Guy de Maupassant's short stories is included. A separate chapter is devoted to their reception in the Czech literary context. The second empirical part focuses on the comparative critical analysis of the inital texts and their translations. The translations were chosen so that they could represent different generations of Czech translators (1902 - Pavel Projsa, 1960's - Luděk Kárl and Břetislav Štorm, 1990's - Dana Melanová). Here, the thesis deals with the skills of the translators to express the stylistic concisseness of Maupassant as well as the different stylistic levels of the original text (pathos and poetic language on one hand and informality on the other). In the conclusion, a final critical evaluation of the translations is given.

This master thesis introduces the origins of the Alfréd Radok Awards Foundation and briefly explains evolution of the contest the Foundation has run for the past twenty two years. It focuses mainly on the Alfréd Radok Awards Drama Contest which introduced the best original and unperformed Czech or Slovakian plays.

Primary art schools enjoy a long tradition in our country. The Primary Art School ``Kochana z Prachové{\crqq} in Strakonice celebrates already the 70th anniversary of its foundation. It is surprising that nobody has attempted to elaborate a comprehensive work concerning its history for the whole period. With respect to the fact that I have been teaching the piano playing here since 2006 and therefore I have become a part of it, I have chosen just the history thereof as the subject of my thesis. The Primary Art School participates in many cultural activities of the town of Strakonice and it is an important educational institution because it provides education to 750 pupils in four subjects - the musical, graphic, dancing and literary-dramatic ones and it prepares talented pupils for the study at secondary schools, colleges and universities focused on arts.

The present diploma thesis deals with the specifics of employment relationships of symphonic orchestra players in the Czech Republic. Individual chapters outline many aspects of this activity from historical view of orchestral tradition on the territory of the present Czech Republic, up to individual internal mechanisms of the functioning of symphonic orchestras, like the establishing of employment relationship on the competitive basis, the position of functional players within the system of orchestra work, the schedule of working hours and job description of an orchestra player, care for employees, health hazards of that profession etc. The basic activity of symphonic orchestras is their concert activity, where concerts take place on a domestic stage of each orchestra, but very often also as concert tours for economic, educative and comparative purposes. The author of this thesis elucidates the role of a conductor as the main manager, who is responsible for the artistic result of the whole orchestra. This part of the thesis is complemented by an exclusive interview with maestro Jiří Bělohlávek, the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The author also deals with the role of the artistic board, the main advisory body of the orchestra management on artistic issues. Other...

The territory in question for the design of architectural study is located in the city of Brno-Zidenice, cadastral area of Zidenice, on the left (east) bank of the river Svitava, 2 km east of the historic core. An area of about 4.1 ha is bounded on the south Bubenickova street, on the east side is street Kopernikova, Lazaretni is on the north and on the west side is nameless street, which currently serves as a handler - connecting. The subject of this diploma thesis is the architectural study of the design of the urban spatial structure with intensive use of city urban area, designed in pre-diploma project, which preceded diploma thesis. The meaning this proposal is to achieve higher densities while maintaining quality of life and living environment. The shape of the object´s ground plan based on the area. The shape defined Bubenickova street from the south side and street Kopernikova defined the shape from the east side, which are themselves almost perpendicular. Also the shape is parallel with a very important point territory - the urban spa (architect B. Fuchs, 1931), which is adjacent to the proposed facility and the stresses their importance in terms of architecture. The spatial resolution respects the surrounding buildings. The aim is to release the most western part, which is defined for parking, urban public transportation, entrances to underground garages and green areas. Green area is also located in the northern part of the territory where it is created park with a water feature and tangled hiking trails. From the western and eastern parts of the object is tree-lined because the object is very the close to the surrounding streets. The object is for vehicular traffic completely closed and is only for pedestrians. But it also has a public plaza with green areas and water features for relaxation and wellbeing.

The area is located in the north part of Brno (Řečkovice a Mokrá Hora) and is surrounded by a housing estate. To the south of this area is a complex of former barracks. In our project we propose to use the area as a residential district with public amenities. Sports ground and the park are included. Currently there are terraced houses and separated family houses. We especially use low-floor blocks of houses with no more than four floors. Orientation of the blocks corresponds with the fact that this area is on the north slope. Family houses with gardens are situated on the east side of the area. The area is accessible from the Žilkova street (on the east) and from the Terezy Novákové street (on the west) – buildings on this street make a noise barrier. The square of our area is next to this street and represents a public place with public amenities (for example a retirement house and a school of art), underground car park and a pedestrian precint leading to the park. A tram stop is nearby. Sports ground and the park are situated in the north part of the area. In the central part we find the kindergarten. Underground car parks for the residents are under the blocks and its courtyards.

The main task of the diploma thesis is to use the open areas between the streets Stefanikova, Reissigova, Sportovni and Pionyrská in Brno for creating a multifunctional urban structure with the appropriate functions. Diploma thesis is based on the urban-architectural design created in the previous semester project. Thesis closely addresses the proposed multipurpose building between the streets Stredni a Stankova. In the object is located school of arts, cultural and leisure center, restaurant, café, music club and rentable units. Under the building are designed collective garages.

Brno Lesna is ranked among the most highly regarded housing estates in Czechoslovakia ever since it was built in the 1960s. Mainly due to its ideal location at southern slopes around natural ravine and timeless urban design. This settlement at the time also constituted the most perfect realization of the current method of construction in our country. It was fully functional and completely finished even before first residents moved in. However, cultivated expression of housing architecture was recently severely affected by inappropriate revitalization. Change of ownership after the events of November 1989 also opened the way for development companies desiring to open spaces to build new apartment buildings. Original inhabitants, though, fight against it and seek for protection of whole settlement as heritage.

The final thesis is new building Basic school of art and music. The building is located in the urban area of Hronov. The building is divided into two wings. In one part of the building at 1 NP is mainly individual classrooms for play on an individual instrument. In the second part of the building is the concert hall, which is designed for orchestral rehearsal. The 2nd floor is mostly individual classrooms. In 3 NP is designed dance and ballet hall and individual classrooms. In the attic is a classroom for art education. The building has a partial basement. The building is planted on flat land. The building is brick from the system LIAPOR, overhead structures are made of panels SPIROLL, in the basement of a reinforced concrete slab. The roof construction is designed as a purlin roof and „hambalek“ purlin roofs made as saddle with a slope of 35 degrees.

The dissertation deals with the reception of Dutch realism in the late Gothic panel painting in Bohemia. Its aim is to examine the principles of reception of new artistic forms and ideas that originated in the Dutch art centers in the 15th century. The Czech painting of the 15th century was adopting these innovative trends exclusively from the neighbouring countries. Therefore, the work addresses mainly issues related to artistic exchanges between Bohemia and the surrounding - mostly German-speaking - regions. It looks into the specific ways in which artistic exchange took place - the mobility of artists, art imports, the importance of graphic and other models. The dissertation focuses on the most important examples that show the reception of Dutch realism: The Ark of Grand Master Puchner, The Křivoklát Altarpiece, and works associated with it. These matters are addressed mainly through a formal stylistic analysis and formal comparison. In the case of the Puchner Ark, via these methods, it has been possible to point out a possible artistic basis of the author in Swabia - within a circle of the followers of the Master of the Sterzing Altarpiece. The dissertation has tried to prove the artistic origin of the Master of the Litoměřice Altarpiece within the circle of the Ulm painter B. Zeitblom. These...