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Razpotja 39 (2020): Hierarhije

We are alive and share the same planet with all

Sunday April 17th, 2022

The invisible coronavirus, as we witness, is a social virus, because it revealed the weaknesses of politicians and of our system. —Radka Denemarková An essay on Taiwan in the Slovenian magazine Razpotja. Radka Denemarková: Živi … Read more »

Categories News, Foreign edition, Essay, Thoughts Tags democracy, coronavirus, Slovenia, Taiwan
Symposium Menschenrechte ETC. Die Hauptrede: Radka Denemarková. Grazer Rathaus, 22. 10. 2018. (Copyright by Foto Fischer, Graz)

(Deutsch) Wo das Geld spricht, schweigt die Wahrheit

Sunday April 3rd, 2022

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

Categories Foreign edition, Essay Tags democracy, human rights, Austria, UNESCO
Journal der Künste 16 (2021)

Essay in the journal Journal der Künste

Sunday March 13th, 2022

Radka Denemarková’s text was published in German and English in the Journal der Künste of the German Academy of Arts in Berlin: Radka Denemarková: When Freedom Dies (Centimeter by Centimeter). Journal der Künste, No. 16, … Read more »

Categories News, Essay Tags democracy
RESPEKT. Wo Vielfalt in Würde gelebt wird. Styria Verlag, Graz 2021.

RESPECT. Where diversity is lived with dignity.

Friday December 10th, 2021Thursday December 9th, 2021

RESPEKT. Wo Vielfalt in Würde gelebt wird. Styria Verlag, Graz 2021. Anthology of texts on human rights for the anniversary of UNESCO. It contains a speech by Radka Denemarková „Wo das Geld spricht, schweigt die … Read more »

Categories News, Foreign edition, Essay Tags human rights, Austria, UNESCO
Pochod neonacistů 1. 5. 2019 v Brně (foto: Český rozhlas Vltava)

(čeština) O eseji z knihy Jako by se to všechno stalo včera | ČRo Vltava

Friday November 26th, 2021Wednesday November 17th, 2021

Sorry, this entry is only available in Czech.

Categories News, Essay, New book, Radio Tags democracy, Holocaust, As If It All Happened Yesterday
Radka Denemarková (foto Soňa Pokorná)

(čeština) Je těžké budovat demokracii v zemi, která demokraty nemá

Friday November 26th, 2021Sunday October 31st, 2021

Sorry, this entry is only available in Czech.

Categories News, Essay, Festival Tags democracy, coronavirus, pandemic
Jako by se to všechno stalo včera / Als wäre das alles gestern geschehen (2021, CZ-DE)

(čeština) „Mně se daří podle možností přiměřeně, jak dál?“ (úryvek eseje)

Monday February 7th, 2022Sunday October 24th, 2021

Sorry, this entry is only available in Czech and German.

Categories Essay, New book, Texts Tags As If It All Happened Yesterday
Jako by se to všechno stalo včera / Als wäre das alles gestern geschehen (2021, CZ-DE)

“As If It All Happened Yesterday”

Friday November 26th, 2021Monday October 18th, 2021

Although more than three-quarters of a century have passed since the end of World War II, its witnesses still live, who can prove with their personal testimony the horrors of the time. The Czech-German Fund … Read more »

Categories News, Essay, New book Tags Holocaust, As If It All Happened Yesterday
Radka Denemarková (foto Elena Horálková, Český rozhlas)

The virus gave us a choice – democracy, totalitarianism?

Sunday January 24th, 2021Sunday January 24th, 2021

“The virus benefits the mafia thinking and organized crime of oligarchs who only think of their own companies. And the arrogant power inadvertently reveals the intention: to completely control life, to bone everything different, independent, … Read more »

Categories News, Essay, Thoughts, Radio Tags coronavirus
Aspen Review cover story by Radka Denemarková

Cover story in Aspen Review: Taiwan

Tuesday November 24th, 2020Thursday November 19th, 2020

Aspen Review (03/2020) cover story by Radka Denemarková: The Country Where People Trust Their Government and the Government Trusts its People In Taiwan, I had a chance to see what really matters in a democracy. … Read more »

Categories Essay, Texts Tags English, Czech Republic, China, Taiwan

Radka Denemarková on Herta Müller

Saturday May 23rd, 2020Wednesday June 5th, 2019

One short essay about the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller (in Czech language only).

Categories Essay
spiral staircase

Again, Indifference and Demoralizing Tendencies in Society

Thursday December 9th, 2021Friday November 18th, 2016

Radka Denemarková: Wider die Apathie und Demoralisierung. Der Standard, 18. 11. 2016. (Austria)

Categories Essay, Texts Tags German, Austria
Dan du 12. Taihai Publishing House, 2016

Essay “The European Mosaic” in Chinese translation

Saturday August 4th, 2018Friday June 17th, 2016

Radka Denemarková’s essay THE EUROPEAN MOSAIC is finally published in Chinese. DanDu / Single Reading: The Death of Creativity, No. 12/2016, pp. 3-33. Anthology of essays edited by Xu Zhiyuan.

Categories News, Essay, Translation Tags Chinese, German, China

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