http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/gisela-cheffer-i-even-sat-on-the-lap-of-some-nazis-of-course-they-had-no-idea-that-my-father-was-jewish An informal interview show, where you have the chance to meet some of the most interesting figures in Czech life today. en Mon, 20 May 2013 13:16:08 +0200 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:16:08 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Radio Prague CMS   http://radio.cz      http://radio.cz/assets/imgs/radiopraha-rss.png   200   200 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Radio Broadcasting cr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas) webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/gisela-cheffer-i-even-sat-on-the-lap-of-some-nazis-of-course-they-had-no-idea-that-my-father-was-jewish Gisela Cheffer was born Gisela Duschinský in Brno in 1932. Her Viennese father was Jewish, which made her a target for the Nazis, and her baptism as a Roman Catholic very likely saved her life. She later came close to being forced to leave during the mass expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s German population after the war. But she stayed – until, that is, a meeting with a Finn led to a life abroad. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:16:08 +0200 urn:uuid:5e849759-8a95-542b-a53e-1b779319d718 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/corruption-universal-but-corruption-tourism-unique-to-prague-says-tour-boss-petr-sourek One of the more colourful news stories out of the Czech Republic last year concerned Corrupt Tour, which started running excursions – in Czech, English and German – to sites linked to graft. These include the villas of dodgy businessmen, Prague City Hall and the spot where the city’s “Olympic centre” was projected to stand. Mon, 13 May 2013 13:13:50 +0200 urn:uuid:506078e5-063b-5d6b-8e03-28e3a77cabba http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/people-will-pay-for-quality-online-news-says-ihned-boss-lucie-tvaruzkova How are Czech newspapers dealing with the shift to an online world? Is their present, mainly free model sustainable? And what will the media landscape look like in a decade? One person well placed to discuss these and similar questions is Lucie Tvarůžková. She is the boss of iHNed, the news website of the leading Czech financial daily Hospodářské noviny, whose data journalism team recently won a prestigious award. Mon, 06 May 2013 14:48:20 +0200 urn:uuid:a83a93e2-ebfd-54e0-8298-88b782dbaca3 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/czech-born-author-and-publisher-marketa-goetz-stankiewicz My guest today is Marketa Goetz Stankiewicz, a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia. Born in 1927 in the Czech town of Liberec, Marketa left Czechoslovakia following the communist putsch in 1948. She established herself in Canada as a professor of comparative literature, author and essayist, focusing in particular on publishing samizdat literature, and also writing about the work of Czech playwrights such as Pavel Kohout, Josef Topol, Ivan Klíma, and her friend the former president Václav Havel. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0200 urn:uuid:bbd60c5d-18dc-55f6-9afe-6c86b575a66b http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/max-bahnson-beer-philosopher Going by the name Pivní Filosof, or the Beer Philosopher, Max Bahnson blogs in English and Spanish about all aspects of Czech pivo and beer culture. The Argentinean, who has little time for those who look down on popular, mass-produced brews, has written a guide to Prague’s pubs and is currently working on a second book. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:24:43 +0200 urn:uuid:53f816e0-6700-53fb-908f-b6f1a4adbaf6 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/jirka-mrazek-trading-in-communist-era-design-items-with-firm-nanovo The company Nanovo trades in classic design items from Czechoslovakia’s Communist era. With a name that translates as ‘again’ or ‘afresh’, Nanovo sells everything from kitschy chandeliers to simple plastic phones to old-fashioned armchairs. Jirka Mrázek is one of two Praguers in their late 20s behind the firm, which since last summer has been operating out of a small warehouse in Vysočany, an old industrial part of the city. There, surrounded by a treasure trove of stuff, I asked Mrázek where he and his partner had got the idea for their business. Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0200 urn:uuid:c720aeae-2bc4-58c7-9fbb-f9b082778c9b http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/martin-pomothy-founder-of-countrys-largest-film-website-1 Since it was first created in 2001, the Czech and Slovak Film Database, or CSFD, has gained a massive following in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The largest such website of its kind, it has nearly a quarter of a million entries on films, TV series, actors, directors and so on. A huge community has emerged around the website, with over 220,000 users. In this edition of One on One, we talk to Martin Pomothy, the creator and manager of the database. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:48:14 +0100 urn:uuid:0d1c7fd6-463c-5164-82fd-1a907ab6b4d8 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/iva-fruehlingova-the-road-to-success-can-be-bumpy-1 My guest on One on One this week is Iva Frühlingová – model, singer, actress and author. Born in the town of Litvínov, with a French grandfather Iva dreamed of going places and most of all of seeing Paris – the city she’d heard so much about as a child. Her dream came true at the age of 14 when she first travelled to Paris as a budding model. Today she divides her time between Prague and Paris, engaging in modeling, singing, writing and most recently acting. Peter began by asking her which of those “skins” she felt most at home in. Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:02:48 +0100 urn:uuid:9361d881-8d53-5092-8388-9c5a02d257a4 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/helle-faber-russias-nashi-like-hitler-youth-says-producer-of-putins-kiss Helle Faber’s production company Made in Copenhagen has been behind a string of documentary films that have made an impact far beyond the borders of her native Denmark. The producer has just been in Prague for the One World festival of human rights documentaries, giving workshops for local filmmakers at the East Doc Forum sidebar and introducing her company’s Putin’s Kiss, an excellent documentary that maps the fate of a leading member of Russia’s pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:40:32 +0100 urn:uuid:c052a3f8-81eb-530e-82d1-e8a1b38d8197 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/petra-vesela-coffee-connoisseur Petra Veselá is one of the Czech Republic’s leading experts on coffee. The author of a publication simply entitled Kniha o kávě (Book about Coffee), she is an internationally accredited expert taster and runs courses for baristas in how to prepare the perfect cup. We met for a coffee at one of the handful of cafés in Prague where Veselá considers the brew to be of a genuinely high quality. The first thing I asked: when did her interest in the beverage begin? Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:48:03 +0100 urn:uuid:347671d0-f86e-5ec4-a320-b0ff5c87e245 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/dalibor-dedek-modest-electronics-magnate-with-a-hands-on-approach Dalibor Dědek is the owner of Jablotron, an electronics producer based in north Bohemia that has grown into an international concern. Jablotron’s main focus is on security alarms and systems, while it has also in the past received a lot of attention for producing the “world’s biggest mobile phone”. Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:56:32 +0100 urn:uuid:82dbd051-fe44-53f6-80d1-41f9622f56ad http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/karolina-milerova-keeper-of-krtek-flame-with-big-plans-for-future Karolína Milerová, who is 23, found herself running an international business following the death in 2011 of her grandfather, Zdeněk Miler. He was the creator of the hugely popular Czech children’s character Krtek, or Mole, which for over half a century appeared in a series of cartoons and countless books. Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:09:36 +0100 urn:uuid:168605cb-c9dc-5ba5-a3a2-88afa1874554 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/david-n-jahn-creator-and-leader-of-prague-burlesque Prague Burlesque brought the revived burlesque art form – a theatrical, glamorous and relatively modest take on striptease – to the Czech capital in 2007, and the troupe have been performing at various venues in the city ever since. The M.C. and mastermind of the show is David N. Jahn, a sometime musician who was born in Zurich to Czech parents but moved to Prague to study. Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:33:45 +0100 urn:uuid:bd604923-9b84-5c91-9f00-32672aec506d http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/jiri-pehe-divisions-in-czech-society-will-take-years-to-heal Miloš Zeman’s victory in the country’s first direct presidential election has highlighted some deep divisions in Czech society. A large part of the future president’s support came from voters in rural areas and small towns, while his rival, Karel Schwarzenberg, won the backing of city-dwellers, higher income groups, and young people. In this special edition of One on One, my guest Jiří Pehe discusses these divisions, Miloš Zeman’s appeal to Czech voters – and the main factors behind his triumph. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:56:12 +0100 urn:uuid:a938cb9b-4936-5298-80cd-bcf6e90a1354 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/liba-taylor-photographer-who-has-spent-career-documenting-aid-projects-around-globe After fleeing from her native Prague in August 1968, Liba Taylor made a new life for herself in the UK, where she studied photography under a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos group. From her base in London she travelled extensively, documenting the work of major international humanitarian agencies – including the UNHCR, UNICEF and Save the Children – in some of the poorest and most desolate spots on earth. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:27:30 +0100 urn:uuid:2f8b1d30-e81a-506a-8e0f-3c2fd4d98fa8 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/lori-wyant-selby-owner-of-hit-prague-burger-restaurant-the-tavern On the border of the districts of Vinohrady and Žižkov is where you will find The Tavern, a cosy bar and burger restaurant that has become a big hit since it opened just over a year ago. Indeed, a leading Czech food critic recently offered a simple explanation as why to The Tavern is always full: Because it has the best burgers in Prague. It’s owned and run by Lori Wyant Selby and her chef husband Dean Selby, an American couple who are long-term residents of the city. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:30:46 +0100 urn:uuid:c000083e-c51f-5e53-b2b1-0d77d317aeca http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/pavel-paluchnik-young-pastor-at-design-church-near-prague In Černošice, a short train ride from Prague, there is a small but eye-catching church – with lots of curved surfaces and a rough concrete finish – which has appeared in design magazines and is frequently visited by architecture enthusiasts. It belongs to the Církev Bratrská, a Czech Protestant denomination, and its minister is Pavel Paluchnik, who is only 31 years of age. Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:10:33 +0100 urn:uuid:d7fd618c-e4b7-58c2-ae10-0f99a1eb47de http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/josef-svoboda-from-uranium-mine-prison-labourer-to-arctic-ecologist Josef Svoboda is a professor, Arctic ecologist and author. Born in 1929 in Prague, Mr. Svoboda studied science and philosophy at Masaryk and Charles universities. He was imprisoned for nine years by the communist regime in 1949 for alleged treason and espionage and then emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he has lived ever since. I began by asking Svoboda about his earliest memories of growing up in pre-war Czechoslovakia. Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:14:23 +0100 urn:uuid:0f253ff8-8410-50e7-b778-47414d5d83f4 http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/jan-gebert-nazi-names-on-monument-mere-pretext-for-opposition-to-monument-to-murdered-germans-says-stone-games-maker Efforts to commemorate ethnic Germans murdered by Czechs during a wave of post-war expulsions have frequently led to heated debate in this country. One such controversy is the subject of Jan Gebert’s debut documentary Stone Games, which follows a vocal campaign by a group of locals to remove a monument to eight Sudeten Germans killed in the north Bohemian town of Nový Bor in 1945. The protesters are led by an eccentric would-be politician – and their cause attracts the attention of national figures, including now presidential candidate Miloš Zeman. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:28:10 +0100 urn:uuid:9d214d8e-5c5f-548d-ab0c-65013e5dea6c http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/jan-kodes-1970s-tennis-champion Jan Kodeš recently lined up with the rest of the 1980 Davis Cup winning team alongside the Czech team that won this year’s trophy, amid joyous scenes at Prague’s O2 Arena. Kodeš, who is 66, was a member of the Czechoslovak Davis Cup side for 17 years, and later served as its non-playing captain. But his greatest successes came as a player at the French Open, which he won twice, and Wimbledon, where he lifted the trophy once. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:01:33 +0100 urn:uuid:673bf1df-1c01-5f4e-b3e8-566d4e82b766