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The Václav Havel Library Annual Report 2018 The Václav Havel Library Annual Report 2018 2 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla Published in 2019 by the charity the Václav Havel Library registered at the Municipal Court in Prague, file O 338 dated 26 July 2004 statutory representative: Michael Žantovský address: Ostrovní 129/13, 110 00 Prague 1 Identification no. 27169413 / Tax identification no. CZ 27169413 Bank accounts: 7077 7077 / 0300 CZK; IBAN: CZ61 0300 0000 0000 7077 7077 7755 7755 / 0300 EUR; IBAN: CZ40 0300 0000 0000 7755 7755 7747 7747 / 0300 USD; IBAN: CZ66 0300 0000 0000 7747 7747 SWIFT CODE: CEKO CZPP Tel.: (+420) 222 220 112 Email: [email protected] The Václav Havel Library is registered according to the libraries law under registration no. 6343/2007 at the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic www.vaclavhavel.cz www.rokrevoluce.cz www.zmenitsvet.cz www.cisthavla.cz www.rozhovoryvh.cz www.denikrevoluce.cz www.havlovy-deti.cz www.bibliografievh.cz www.facebook.com/KnihovnaVaclavaHavla www.facebook.com/VaclavHavelLibrary www.youtube.com/knihovnavaclavahavla www.twitter.com/KnihovnaVH www.twitter.com/HavelLibraries www.instagram.com/knihovnavaclavahavla Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla 3 It only makes sense as a living or vital organism that occupies a place that cannot be overlooked in overall public and political life. […] The Library must in some way be original as such, in itself, in its everyday nature, as a permanently existing phenomenon or place. Václav Havel A Few Sentences on the Václav Havel Library Hrádeček 4 Contents CONTENTS The Václav Havel Library 7 A word from the director 15 People of the Václav Havel Library 9 The Documentation Centre 16 Founders 9 The Archive 16 Board of trustees 9 The Archive in numbers 16 Supervisory board 9 New additions 17 Statutory representative 9 The Library 17 Library team 9 The Photo Archive 17 External collaborators 9 The Pavel Juráček Archive 18 Volunteers / interns 10 Technical support 18 Services 10 Cooperation 18 Acknowledgements for support 10 on public events and projects 18 via financial donation 10 on the VH Library programme 18 via financial support in contract form 10 on the preparation of VH Library book titles 19 via cooperation or promotion 10 on the preparation of book titles from via financial support in grant form 10 other publishers 19 Acknowledgements for year-round cooperation or 10 on exhibitions 19 on individual projects 10 with Google Cultural Institute 19 Institutions 11 on the presentation of VH Library book titles 20 Individuals 11 on the preparation of documentary films Special acknowledgements relating to 11 and retrospectives 20 Documentation Centre acquisitions 12 on theatre productions and competitions 20 Archival and library collection acquisitions 12 Individual contributions 12 Publishing activities 23 Institutional institutions 12 Contents 5 Best-selling titles 23 Education nepřečtu korekturu of 2018 23 produced in previous years 23 Read Havel reading campaign 93 Sold-out titles 23 E-learning course Man of Inspiration: Human Rights The VH Library Notebooks 23 Through the Life and Work of Václav Havel 93 The VH Library Editions 24 Tomorrow 93 The VH Library Student Line 24 VH Little Libraries 94 Talks from Lány 24 Best Student Essay competition 2018 94 The Works of Pavel Juráček 24 Havel in a Nutshell workshop 94 VH Library Conferences 24 Václav Havel Library permanent exhibition 94 Extra-series publications 25 Václav Havel, here and now 94 Publishing cooperation 27 Visits, social networks, media 96 The World of Václav Havel 28 Financial reports 97 Václav Havel European Dialogues 28 The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2018 30 Fundraising and own revenues 98 The Václav Havel Library abroad 33 Domestic events 33 Auditor’s report and financial statements 99 Exhibitions 41 The Václav Havel Library Club 43 Family and friends of VH 43 Eminent international guests 44 Discussions 48 Debates with Respekt 65 Russia, Ukraine and Belarus 68 The Roma 70 Evenings with Polish reporters 71 Literary evenings 73 Theatre, photography evenings, music and film 86 6 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla Václav Havel Library premises: Ostrovní 13, Prague 1 The Václav Havel Library 7 The Václav Havel Library The Václav Havel Library (hereinafter “VHL”, “VH Library”) gat- The Václav Havel Library’s key missions include: hers, researches, makes public, disseminates and defends the philosophical, literary and political legacy of Václav Havel, employing educational projects, debates, readings, theatre a major figure of modern Czech history who was a writer, play- performances, concerts, lectures and other cultural activities wright, thinker, human rights campaigner and Czechoslovak to introduce the general public and specialists to the historical and Czech president. It also focuses on persons, events and importance of the struggle for human rights and freedoms in phenomena linked to the legacy of Václav Havel and attempts the totalitarian period and the creation of civic society in the to popularise them and place them in the period and contem- democracy-building period porary context. organising archival, archival research, documentation and li- brary activities focused on the work of Václav Havel and docu- Since August 2014 the Václav Havel Library has been head- ments and other items linked to him, including expert analyses quartered at Ostrovní 13, Prague 1. Space on the ground floor of their influence on the life of society and its self-reflection of the building is given over to the exhibition Havel in a Nutshell organising academic research and publishing activities map- and club events. The VH Library puts on all kinds of seminars, ping the “world of Havel” readings, lectures, concerts and theatre performances at the venue. The first floor houses offices, the archive, a constantly expanding library and a reading room for the public. People of the Václav Havel Library 9 People of the Václav Havel Library Founders Karolina Stránská – office manager Jáchym Topol – chief dramaturge Dagmar Havlová Martin Vidlák – head of Documentation Centre Miloslav Petrusek (deceased 2012) Barbora Hankova – production assistant, 0.6-time Karel Schwarzenberg (from September 2018, previously external) Kateřina Hanková – assistance at events, external Board of trustees Kristyna Herejtová – assistance at events, external Jan Hron – digital archive administration, external Michaela Bakala (deputy chair) Marie Fantyšová – O. Škacha Archive, external Iva Brožová Jan Chytil – assistance at events, external Gabriel Eichler (chair) Tereza Johanidesová – librarian, external Dagmar Havlová (until 31. 12. 2018) Božena Jirků Klara Němečková – assistance at events, external Martin Palouš Zdenka Potměšilová – custodian, external Jacques Rupnik Viktorie Preissová – assistance at events, external Nina Smitová Jana Rumlová – assistance at events, external Milan Šimečka Filip Rut – assistance at events, external Lucie Skvrnová – assistance at events, custodian, external Supervisory board Šarka Sladovníková – Havel in a Nutshell lectures, external Rozalie Stejskalová – assistance in Archive, external Emil Holub Libuše Šidlová – custodian, external Ondřej Jonaš Barbora Šikulová – assistance at events, external Luděk Niedermayer Petr Štefek – Archive, external Hana Tenglerová – assistance at events, external Statutory representative External collaborators Michael Žantovský, executive director Jiři Bělohradský – administration of servers Klára Binarová – Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Library team Jakub Čermák – multimedia (from August 2018) Václav Doubravský – IT support Veronika Pikola Brazdilová – production assistant, 0.5-time Tomaš Javora – video recordings (from Sept 2018, previously on maternity leave MD) Zuzana Janečková – Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Eva Csémyová – archive – 0.6-time Eva Lorencová – editing and teaching work Marie Dorazilová – assistance at events, external Ondřej Němec – photo archive Anna Freimanová – editor – 0.8-time Radka Prošková – production assistant Barbora Grečnerová – education coordinator Taťana Rubášová – Pavel Juráček Archive/multimedia Pavel Hájek – head of production (until 31 July 2018) Lucie Prachařová – executive assistant Nina Rutová – programmes for schools instructor 10 People of the Václav Havel Library Kristyna Šlajchrtová – CartonClan, graphic design financial support in the form of contracts Jiři Vaněk – CartonClan, graphic design on cooperation or promotion: Jana Vejřikova – Přepišto.cz, transcription of Sekyra Group spoken word and texts Representation of the European Commission in the CR Adála Volfová – Václav Havel European Dialogues Ian Richard Willoughby – English translations financial support in the form of a grant: Erika Zlamalová – Ivan M. Havel Archive/production City Hall, City of Prague Hynek Zlatník – English translations Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Volunteers / interns State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic Natalie Šimůnková Embassy of the United States in the Czech Republic Veronika Zemanová Acknowledgments for year-round cooperation Services or on one-off projects: Building administration: Atkins and Langford Development, s. r. o. Institutions: Audit: KPMG Česká republika Audit, s. r. o. Archive of the Office of the President Accounting services: VGD, s. r. o. Jan Patočka Archive Webmaster: 2142 net, Jiři Šolc Asistence, o. p. s. Cleaning: UNIVERSAL úklidová služba Aspen Institute Prague Commission book sales: KOSMAS, Academia Babylon Revue Bakala Foundation Acknowledgments:
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