Pátečníci

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The Pátečníci Thomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Karel Čapek

Pátečníci , German for example, The Friday Round , was an informal round table of Czech personalities from culture and politics that met in Prague since 1925 and exerted a significant influence on social life in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period.

history

The name Pátečníci is derived from the Czech word pátek , which means Friday, a day on which the group met regularly. The first meetings date back to autumn 1924 and especially spring 1925, when the first writers mostly met at their colleague Karel Čapek's or alternatively in the then famous Café Slavia . From around 1926 onwards, the group expanded to include a number of political figures, including, for example, the President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the Foreign Minister (and later President) Edvard Beneš , who took part in the talks. It was around this time that the group became well known in public after a meeting on New Year's Eve 1926 became the subject of a two-year trial known in the press as the New Year's Eve affair .

The group included various democratically minded intellectuals, including the writers Karel Čapek , Josef Čapek , Josef Kopta , Ferdinand Peroutka , František Langer , Eduard Bass , Karel Poláček , Vladislav Vančura , the poet František Kubka , the painter and art critic Adolf Hoffmeister , the dramaturge Karel Kraus , the historian and linguist Vilém Mathesius , the sociologist Vasil Kaprálek Škrach , the painter Václav Rabas , the historian Josef Šusta , the economist and MP Josef Macek as well as the politicians Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Jan Masaryk and Edvard Beneš and others.

Imitators

The idea of ​​a regulars' table on Friday inspired a number of groups after 1989 to bring such regulars to life. Thematically, they range from socio-political issues to football and the like. but have nothing in common with the original group.

Remarks

  1. ↑ What is meant is an incident on New Year's Eve 1926, when the writer Karel Čapek invited some friends, including President Masaryk. On this occasion, some politicians, including Masaryk's opponents, were caricatured in his presence, which the conservative press sharply criticized; see. for example Silvestrovská zábava v Hulvátově , in: Národní politika from January 19, 1927 online at: kramerius / ... , or Opravdu manýry z Hulvátova , in: Národní listy from January 18, 1927, online at kramerius / ... (both only readable with plugins for DJVU)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Bílek: Pátečníci u TGM v Lánech , in: Pražský hrad - programový čtvrtletník, online at: old.hrad.cz/kultura (Czech, accessed July 10, 2011)
  2. ↑ Václav Stehlík: Stari Friday Men Novodobí a Zpátečníci! , online at: vasevec.parlamentnilisty.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Pátečníci byl spolek intelektuálů, kteří se scházeli ve vile Karla Čapka. Současná politická reprezentace Prahy 10 se trapně snaží jim přiblížit , critical comment by the Pirate Party, online at: pirati10.cz / ...

Literature and Sources

  • Jan Tydlitát: Pátečníci a Karel Poláček: sborník příspěvků ze sympozia Pátečníci a Karel Poláček , edited by Pavel Janáček, Alber, Rychnov nad Kněžnou, May 2001, ISBN 80-7326-003-4
  • Andrea Orzoff: Battle for the Castle. The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914–1948. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-536781-2 ; online (excerpts) at: books.google.de / ...