Portuguese-Czech relations

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Portuguese-Czech relations
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The Portuguese-Czech relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Portugal and the Czech Republic . Historically, the two countries can look back on ties that have existed since the 18th century and have maintained renewed diplomatic relations since 1974.

Both countries are u. a. Partner in the European Union , the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO . The Czech Republic has also been an observer in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries since the end of 2016 , of which Portugal is a founding member.

In particular, the history of the Portuguese-Czech family Silva-Tarouca and the continuing interest in the Portuguese language in Czech educational and cultural institutions form essential elements of the bilateral relations between the two countries.

history

The diaries of Václav Šašek z Bířkova and the German Gabriel Tetzel von Nürnberg , who came to Portugal on a trans-European mission on behalf of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady in 1466, are the documents of the first official contact between the Czech Republic and Portugal . The mission u. a. Also Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál participated, turned to all major European courts to agree on a defense against the approaching end Turkish wars , but also to improve the image of Bohemia since the Hussite Wars and the differences with Pope Paul II. The records also contain detailed comments on landscape and Society, including descriptions of customs, acquisition and keeping of slaves, the effects of the plague and precautions taken there.

Emanuel Silva-Tarouca , court architect in Vienna and close confidante of Empress Maria Theresa

It is possible that the Portuguese diplomat and scholar Damião de Góis came through Bohemia. There is no doubt that Bento Pinhel's teaching activity at the University of Prague at the end of the 16th / beginning of the 17th century, who became better known as Benedetto Pinelli.

In the 18th century, João Gomes da Silva married Johanna von Menezes, Countess of Tarouca . He became envoy of the Portuguese court in Vienna. His son Emanuel Silva-Tarouca (Portuguese: Manuel de Meneses de Castro , German: Emanuel Tellez, Menezes and Castro, Duke of Sylva-Tarouca and Turnhout, kk ) became a diplomat and preferred advisor to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria . He founded the Austro-Czech branch of the family, the Silva-Tarouca family . He acquired u. a. Čechy pod Kosířem Castle , henceforth the Silva-Tarouca family entourage, and estates in Krakovec and Drahanovice , which remained in the family from 1768 to 1945.

The high-ranking politician and committed botanist Ernst Emanuel von Silva-Tarouca had the old Průhonice Castle near Prague renovated and was co-founder of the adjacent 220 hectare park. The park, which was laid out between 1885 and 1917, was one of the most beautiful English gardens in Europe and was particularly known for its rhododendron collection.

In the 19th century, Portuguese visitors were regularly among the visitors to Karlovy Vary .

After the proclamation of the Republic of Portugal in 1910 and the establishment of democratic Czechoslovakia in 1918, the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1921. After 1937 they were interrupted. They were resumed after the Portuguese Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the end of the anti-communist authoritarian Estado Novo regime.

Since the end of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, relations between the two countries have steadily intensified, in particular through the efforts of Václav Havel and Mário Soares , who was also honored by the University of Prague.

The Portuguese Embassy in Prague

diplomacy

The Portuguese embassy is located at Na Zátorce 10 in the Bubeneč district of Prague in the Prague 6 district .

The Czech embassy in Lisbon, which is responsible for Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe in addition to Portugal , is located at 14 Rua Pêro de Alenquer in the São Francisco Xavier community in the Belém district of Lisbon . Czech honorary consuls also work in Santo Tirso in northern Portugal , in Faro on the Algarve coast , and in Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira .

Culture

Institutions and agreements

Palais Öttingen, location of the Instituto Camões in Prague

In 1976 Czechoslovakia and Portugal signed a cultural agreement. In addition to literature and music, Portuguese artists from other fields also came there. An exhibition by Paula Regos and two exhibitions by Portuguese photographers took place.

The Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões is based in Prague in the Czech Republic and is active in the country with a large number of projects and cooperations.

For Portugal Day on June 10, 2012, a lusophile group in Prague around professors from the universities of Prague, Brno and Olomouc and the translator Lada Weissová founded the Sociedade Checa de Língua Portuguesa (German: Czech Society of the Portuguese Language). The translator Pavla Lidmilová became honorary president .

The Society of Friends of the Lusophone Countries, founded by the Lusitanist Anton Pasienka, has its seat in Brno .

On March 30, 2016, the Czech Republic applied for membership in the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP) as an Associate Observer. The application was justified with initiatives that had already taken place in Czechoslovakia and the increasing spread and teaching of the Portuguese language in the country where hundreds of students learn Portuguese and more and more Czech companies are present in Brazil and the African PALOP countries.

On November 1, 2016, the Czech Republic was awarded Associate Observer status in Brasília by the CPLP.

Language and Lusitan Studies

The Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões runs a language center in Prague and supports a number of projects at schools and universities. In addition, the influential Portuguese Gulbenkian Foundation awards grants and promotes book purchases and translations. In addition, Portuguese is offered in particular at language schools in Prague .

With Charles University in Prague , Masaryk University in Brno and Palacký University in Olomouc , the most important Czech universities have complete courses in Lusitan Studies and courses in the Portuguese language , Portuguese literature and Portuguese culture. At the Charles University in Prague, the lively center of Iberian-American Studies deals with topics of Lusitan Studies.

Portuguese is now also taught at the University of Pilsen . Several dozen Portuguese medical students live in Pilsen .

Professor Jan Klíma from the University of Hradec Králové is considered a specialist in the history of the lusophone countries.

music

Thanks to the Portuguese-Czech cultural agreement in 1976, Portuguese musicians occasionally traveled to the country. For example, the Portuguese pianist Sequeira Costa performed there before 1989, and the Portuguese group Trovante was a guest there at a festival of political song.

Since the end of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Portuguese musicians can be heard more often in the Czech Republic, for example the blind Fado singer Dona Rosa in 2003 or the Portuguese heavy metal band Moonspell several times .

literature

Bohumil Hrabal (1985), one of the most frequently translated authors from the Czech Republic in Portugal

From all areas of Portuguese culture, Portuguese literature found the most widespread distribution in the Czech Republic . In 1836 the first Czech translation of the Lusiads by the Portuguese national poet Luís de Camões appeared there , which was first published in the Czech Republic in 1902 in a complete translation by the poet Jaroslav Vrchlický . Further Czech translations by Portuguese authors of the 19th and 20th centuries followed. Particularly noteworthy are the works Eça de Queiroz , often translated by Zdenek Hampl , professor at Charles University in Prague and co-founder of the Lusitan Studies course there. Pavla Lidmilová is considered to be an important lusophone translator of Brazilian literature in particular , but also of a large number of Portuguese works, including the novels by Mário de Sá-Carneiros and the poetry of Fernando Pessoas , these occasionally in collaboration with the poet Josef Hirsal .

The Czech authors with the most translations into Portuguese are Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera , who are also generally considered to be the best-known authors from today's Czech Republic in Portugal, together with Rainer Maria Rilke . The first reliable translation of Czech literature into Portuguese is Jan Neruda's story The Vampire ( O Vampiro ), translated in 1926 . The first book to be translated from Czech into Portuguese is Karel Josef Beneš ' A Vida Doutra (German title: The robbed life ), which was published in Portugal in 1943. Other authors, who have been translated several times, include Bohumil Hrabal , Václav Havel and Karel Čapek .

Movie

The Portuguese film became known among film fans in the Czech Republic in particular through works by Manoel de Oliveira , which were shown at film festivals and on Czech television.

The Czech film is viewed under film friends in Portugal and known. Films from the Czech Republic are often shown at Portuguese film festivals. So were Jakubiskos Lepšie byť bohatý a zdravý ako chudobný a chorý 1993 and January Svěrák Empties 2008 when Festroia named best film -Filmfestival the Golden Dolphin.

Town twinning

After the Czech Republic joined the EU in 2004, Portuguese and Czech municipalities have so far entered into three city ​​and municipality friendships (as of 2010). No partnership was agreed during the previous Portuguese-Czechoslovak relations .

economy

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP has a branch in Prague.

In 2015, the Czech Republic imported goods and services from Portugal worth 353.3 million euros (2014: 357.5 million, 2013: 325.3 million, 2012: 366.1 million, 2011: 330.6 million), of which 22.0% machines and devices, 16.6% plastic products, 14.4% vehicles and vehicle parts and 13.7% textiles.

During the same period, Portugal imported goods and services from the Czech Republic to the value of 483.9 million euros (2014: 417.1 million, 2013: 326.0 million, 2012: 313.3 million, 2011: 373.0 million), of which 41 , 6% vehicles and vehicle parts, 25.9% machines and devices, 6.5% metals and 6.4% plastics.

This puts the Czech Republic in 20th place for Portuguese foreign trade among the buyer countries and 19th among the supplier countries. For the Czech foreign trade, Portugal ranks 32nd among the buyer countries and 35th among the supplier countries.

The share of Czech tourists in the growing tourism in Portugal was around 0.18% market share with revenues of 20.5 million euros (2014: 20.2 million = 0.19%; 2013: 19.5% = 0.21%; 2012: 19.6 million = 0.23%; 2011: 16.9 million = 0.21%).

Sports

The teams of Portugal and the Czech Republic before the quarter-finals at the EM 2012

Soccer

The Portuguese national soccer team and the Czech national team have only met once so far, in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 . On June 21, 2012 in Warsaw's Narodowy Stadium , the Portuguese beat the Czech team 1-0. The Portuguese team had previously played ten times against the former Czechoslovak national team , for the first time on January 24, 1926. In the friendly game in front of 12,000 spectators at Campo do Ameal in Porto , they parted 1: 1. Overall, the Czech Republic has been victorious four times, Portugal three times, and the game has been drawn three times.

Other

During two friendlies in Elvas , southern Portugal , the Portuguese national ice hockey team defeated a reserve team from the Czech national ice hockey team 6: 4 and 6: 2 in January 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Portuguese-Czech relations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of diplomatic relations with the Czech Republic on the website of the Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on May 4, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006, p. 846 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 )
  3. ↑ Contacts on the website of the Czech Embassy in Portugal , accessed on February 4, 2017
  4. ↑ Report on the establishment of the Sociedade Checa de Língua Portuguesa , copy of the notification from the Instituto Camões on www.ventosdalusofonia.wordpres.com, accessed on February 4, 2017
  5. ↑ República Checa solicitou estatuto de observador associado da CPLP - “Czech Republic applies for the status of associate observer in the CPLP” , article from March 31, 2016 on www.observalinguaportuguesa.org, accessed on February 4, 2017
  6. ↑ Entry on the Czech Republic at the CPLP (with PDF download of the resolution on admission), accessed on February 4, 2017
  7. ↑ Profile of the translator Pavla Lidmilová ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Czech literary magazine PLAV, accessed on February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svetovka.cz
  8. ↑ Literatura checa traduzida para português - “Portuguese translations of Czech literature” , essay by Jaroslav Špirk on the website of Charles University in Prague, accessed on February 4, 2017
  9. ↑ List of Portuguese-Czechoslovak town twinning at the Association of Portuguese Administrative Districts (ANMP), accessed on May 16, 2020
  10. ^ AICEP page on the Prague branch , accessed on February 4, 2017
  11. ↑ a b Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and the Czech Republic , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP , accessed on February 4, 2017
  12. ↑ See list of international matches of the Portuguese national football team # international match balance sheets
  13. ↑ Hóquei no gelo: Portugal venceu República Checa em Elvas - "Ice hockey: Portugal defeated the Czech Republic in Elvas" , article from January 12, 2015 in the news portal ElvasNews, accessed on February 4, 2017