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Vyrocni-Zprava-2016-En.Pdf 2 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla Published in 2017 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 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-library.org 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 public and political life. […] The Library must in some way be unique, in and of itslelf, 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 Cooperation on research projects People of the Václav Havel Library on public events Founders on VH Library club programme Board of trustees on exhibitions Supervisory board on other public events Statutory representative on Czech Television documentary films Library team on the preparation and production of VH Library book External collaborators titles Volunteers / interns on the preparation of film retrospectives Services on the creation of photographic supplements for VH Acknowledgements Library book titles for financial support on the presentation of the VH Library’s books for financial support in grant form for non-financial support Publishing activities for year-round cooperation Best-selling titles for cooperation on one-off projects The VH Library Notebooks individuals The VH Library Editions institutions Student Council special acknowledgements Talks from Lány for the provision of archival materials and books The Václav Havel Documents to the Library Documentation Centre Works of Pavel Juráček VH Library Conferences A word from the director Extra-series publications Publishing cooperation The Documentation Centre The Archive Havel@80 The Archive in numbers The VH Library abroad New additions Exhibitions The Library A Tribute to VH in Prague 6 The Photo Archive Havel@80 at Lucerna, or Eighty well-wishers for Eighty Years The Pavel Juráček Archive Accompanying events Technical support Contents 5 Occasional lectures and discussions The World of Václav Havel Media coverage The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2016 Visits and social networks Václav Havel European Dialogues Financial reports Other events Fundraising and own revenues Auditor’s report and financial statements The Václav Havel Library Club Family and friends of VH Eminent visitors at the VH Library Václav Havel Library discussions Debates with Respekt English events Russia and Ukraine China Evenings with Polish reporters Václav Havel and the transformation of Czech society in photo- graphs Literary evenings Theatre performances Education VH Library permanent exhibition Best Student Essay competition, 2016 Havel in a Nutshell workshop e-learning course Human rights, civic society and civic responsibility through the life and work of Václav Havel Václav Havel, here and now Václav Havel for students Russian culture through the eyes of Tomáš Glanc 6 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla The Václav Havel Library 7 The Václav Havel Library The Václav Havel Library collects, researches, disseminates, The Václav Havel Library’s central promotes and advocates the spiritual, philosophical, literary and missions include: political legacy of Václav Havel, a great figure of modern Czech history who was a writer, playwright, thinker, human rights b organising archival research, documentation and library activ- campaigner and Czechoslovak and Czech president. It also ities focused on the work of Václav Havel and documents and focuses on persons, events and phenomena linked to the legacy other items related to him, including expert analyses of their of Václav Havel and attempts to popularise them and place influence on the life of society and its self-reflection them in the period and contemporary context. Since August b organising exhibitions, debates, readings, theatre performanc- 2014 the Václav Havel Library has been located at Ostrovní 13, es, concerts, lectures and other cultural activities to introduce Prague 1. Space in the ground floor of the building is given the general public and specialists to the historical importance over to the exhibition Havel in a Nutshell and club events. of the struggle for human rights and freedoms in the totali- The VH Library puts on all kinds of seminars, readings, lectures, tarian period and the creation of civic society in the democra- concerts and theatre performances at the venue. The first floor cy-building period houses offices, the archive, a constantly expanding library and b organising academic research and publishing activities map- a reading room for the public. ping the “world of Havel” 8 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla People of the Václav Havel Library 9 People of the Václav Havel Library Founders Lucie Prachařová – VHL executive assistant Karolína Stránská – office manager Dagmar Havlová Jáchym Topol – chief dramaturge Miloslav Petrusek († 2012) Martin Vidlák – head of Documentation Centre Karel Schwarzenberg Ondřej Doležal – IT support, external employee, until January 2016 Board of trustees Kristýna Boháčová – archive, book sales, external employee Václav Doubravský – IT support, external employee, from Febru- Michaela Bakala (deputy chair) ary 2016 Iva Brožová Barbora Hanková – assistant during events, external employee Gabriel Eichler (chair) Kateřina Hanková – assistant during events, external employee, Dagmar Havlová from June 2016 Božena Jirků Jan Hron – digital archive administration, external employee Martin Palouš Marie Fantyšová – archive, external employee, from February Jacques Rupnik 2016 Nina Smitová Tereza Johanidesová – librarian, external employee Milan Šimečka Zdenka Potměšilová – custodian, external employee Filip Rut – assistant during events, external employee Supervisory board Filip Simon – assistant during events, external employee Lucie Skvrnová – assistant during events, external employee Emil Holub Šárka Sladovníková – guided tours, external employee Ondřej Jonáš Barbora Šenoltová – assistant during events, external employee Luděk Niedermayer Tereza Šenoltová – assistant during events, external employee Libuše Šídlová – custodian, external employee Statutory representative Kristýna Šťastná – archive, guided tours, external employee Petr Štefek – archive, external employee Michael Žantovský, executive director Andrea Vítková – assistant during events, external employee, from June 2016 Library team External collaborators Veronika Brázdilová – programme coordinator, on maternity Jiří Bělohradský – administration of servers leave since September 2016 Klára Binarová – Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Eva Csémyová – archive, 0.6-time employee Zuzana Formánková – Pavel Juráček Archive, until July 2016 Anna Freimanová – editor, 0.8-time employee Tomáš Javora – video recordings Barbora Grečnerová – education coordinator, 0.8-time employ- Zuzana Janečková – Václav Havel Human Rights Prize ee, from 1.9.2016 Eva Lorencová – editing and teaching work Pavel Hájek – head of production Helena Medková – German translations Marianna Placáková – exhibition curator, production assistant, Ondřej Němec – photo archive 0.6-time employee, until 31.12.2016 Radka Prošková – production assistant, from September 2016 10 People of the Václav Havel Library Vlasta Reittererová – German translations Tomáš Vtípil Taťána Rubášová – Pavel Juráček Archive, from August 2016 Representation of the European Commission in the CR Nina Rutová – programmes for schools The 241 donors who contributed to the Hey, It’s Havel! crowd- Kristýna Šlajchrtová – Carton Clan, graphic design funding campaign on the website www.hithit.com and all small Jiří Vaněk – Carton Clan, graphic design donors Jana Vejříková – Přepišto.cz, transcription of spoken word and texts for financial support in grant form Adéla Volfová – Václav Havel European Dialogues City Hall, City of Prague Ian Richard Willoughby – English translations Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic Erika Zlamalová – Ivan M. Havel Archive Rockefeller Brothers Fund State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic Volunteers / interns Embassy of the French Republic in the Czech Republic Barbora Ficková – review of transcriptions of audio recordings Hana Kučerová – digitisation and description of written docu- for non-financial support ments TechSoup o. s. Simona Matulová – review of texts and recordings in Slovak KPMG Česká republika Audit s. r. o. Ema Nováková – volunteer Minna Suikka – Erasmus programme intern, Finland, research for year-round support into Scandinavian Havel studies Aspen Institute Prague Daniela Valentová – English translations Bakala Foundation Renátó Fehér – Erasmus programme intern, Hungary Bison and Rose Czech Centres Services Činoherní klub Building administration: Atkins and Langford Development, s. r. o. DILIA Accounting services: VGD, s. r. o. Faculty
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