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      • Trusted Partner
        April 1997

        Romane und Erzählungen. Sechs Bände in Kassette

        by Bohumil Hrabal, Franz Peter Künzel, Peter Sacher, Susanna Roth, Karl-Heinz Jähn

        Bohumil Hrabal wurde am 28. März 1914 im tschechischen Brünn (Brno) geboren und starb am 3. Februar 1997 in Prag. 1935 begann Hrabal sein Jurastudium in Prag. Nebenbei besuchte er Vorlesungen über Literatur, Kunst und Philosophie und schrieb seine ersten Gedichte. 1939 musste er sein Studium unterbrechen, da die deutsche Besatzungsmacht die tschechischen Hochschulen schließen ließ. Von 1941 bis 1945 arbeitete er für die staatliche Eisenbahn. 1946 promovierte er zum Dr. jur. Von 1947 bis 1949 war er Handelsreisender. In dieser Zeit bereitete er seinen ersten Gedichtband Verlorenes Gäßchen vor. Bis 1958 arbeitete Hrabal in einem Stahlwerk in Kladno und in einer Altpapierpackerei in Prag. 1956 heiratete er Eliska Plevová. 1963 erschien seine erste Erzählung Perlchen auf dem Grund erscheint; rasch folgten von 1964-68 Die Bafler, Tanzstunden für Erwachsene und Fortgeschrittene, Inserat. verkaufe Haus, in dem ich nicht mehr wohnen will, Moritaten und Legenden und andere Texte, die zum Teil auch verfilmt wurden. Bis 1975 wurde ein Publikationsverbot verhängt. Eine Auswahl seiner Texte konnte jedoch im Ausland, darunter in der DDR und in der Bundesrepublik erscheinen. Von 1982 bis 1985 entstand die autobiographische Trilogie Hochzeiten im Haus. 1987 starb seine Ehefrau. Noch vor der politischen Wende erschien 1988 der autobiographische Mädchenroman in Canada in einem Exilverlag. Peter Sacher, Bohemist, Verleger, Übersetzer, Lyriker, geb. 1944 im böhmischen Komotau (tschechisch Chomutov), verließ 1958 die Tschechoslowakei. Studierte in München Slawistik, Bohemistik, Philosophie, Psychologie, 1980 Studienabschluss. Ab 1984 Übersetzer tschechischer Literatur (Prosa: Arnošt Lustig, Richard Weiner, Ladislav Fuks, Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek u. a.; Philosophie: Jan Patočka, Ladislav Klíma, Karel Kosík etc.; Anthologien). 1988 Visiting Fellow am IWM in Wien, 1990 bis 1992 Beiträge zu Werken tschechischer Autoren und Studie über tschechische Literatur für Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon. Im Jahr 1993 Rückkehr nach Tschechien, in Prag Gründung des Hynek Verlags. Seit 2010 freiberuflicher Schriftsteller, lebt heute nahe Prag, fallweise in München.

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      • Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy

        A Clinical Guide for Transforming Emotional Pain

        by Ladislav Timulak, Daragh Keogh

        Emotion-Focused Therapy is an effective transdiagnostic treatment for the common symptoms that underlie depression, anxiety, and other related disorders.Given the high comorbidity of mental health symptoms and our growing understanding of psychopathology, transdiagnostic treatments are becoming more and more common. This book conceptualizes Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) as a transdiagnostic approach for treating a variety of mental health problems by accessing and transforming the underlying vulnerability of the core emotional pain and, in light of this, examining clusters of symptoms such as anxiety.The authors use elements of a modular approach that is the culmination of a decade-long research program. They target some symptom-level presentations, as well as the underlying emotional vulnerability that manifests in depression, anxiety, and other related disorders.This approach integrates a range of symptom-level EFT tasks, including tasks aimed at facilitating regulation of emotional distress, as well as tasks that specifically target self-worrying, rumination, perfectionism, and other discrete symptoms. Strategies that target clusters of symptoms, such as two-chair dialogues and self-interruption, are illustrated through richly detailed session transcripts.This book helps mental health professionals enable their clients to access emotional vulnerability, facilitate emotional regulation, guide emotional transformation processes, and engage in healthy interpersonal experiences.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2019

        Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

        by Michael Gehler, Piotr H. Kosicki, Helmut Wohnout (eds)

        The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.Contributors: Andrea Brait (University of Innsbruck), Alexander Brakel (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Israel), Ladislav Cabada (Metropolitan University Prague), Giovanni Mario Ceci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre / IES-Rome), Kim Christiaens (KU Leuven), Michael Gehler (University of Hildesheim), Thomas Gronier (UMR SIRICE), Piotr H. Kosicki (University of Maryland), Sławomir Łukasiewicz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Anton Pelinka (Central European University in Budapest), Johannes Schönner (Karl von Vogelsang Institute), Artūras Svarauskas (Lithuanian University of Educational Science), Helmut Wohnout (Austrian Federal Chancellery / Karl von Vogelsang Institute)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

      • Oral history
        February 2018

        Hitler, Stalin and I

        An Oral History

        by Heda Margolius Kovály and Helena Třeštíková; translated by Ivan Margolius

        This life and death human drama is not just about one survivor but a meaningful observation of an even more significant story about the bloody outcomes of extremism. – New York Journal of Books   Through interviews with award-winning filmmaker Helena Treštíková, Kovály recounts her experiences under fascist and communist oppression. Miraculously surviving both Łódz Ghetto and Auschwitz, then escaping from a death march, Heda participated in the Prague Uprising and its liberation. Later, under Communist rule Heda suffered extreme social isolation after her first husband Rudolf Margolius was unjustly accused in the infamous Slánský Trial and executed for treason. Her son and translator of the book, Ivan Margolius, adds critical contextual information surrounding the trial and its recently uncovered documents and film footage. Remarkably, Kovály, who was exiled in the United States after the brutal crushing of the Prague Spring, only had love for her country and continued to believe in its people. She returned to Prague in 1996 and died there in 2010 at the age of 91.

      • Biography & True Stories
        March 2021

        Mozart in Prague

        by Dr. Daniel E. Freeman

        ISBN-13: 978-1-950743-50-6   Dismissed in Vienna as a compose of excessively complicated music with little popular appeal, Mozart found complete recognition for his talents in Prague, likely as a byproduct of the exceptional musical literacy of the general population. Accounts of the affection lavished on Mozart by the people of Prague can be deeply moving for those acquainted with his bleak struggles for recognition in Vienna. Indeed, he was manhandled like a rock star at the concert in 1787 that featured the first performance of the "Prague" symphony in a way that he never experienced anywhere else. And in contrast to the tawdry ceremonies that accompanied Mozart's burial in Vienna in 1791, his funeral in Prague, attended by thousands of mourners, brought life there to a standstill. It was the residents of Prague, not Vienna, who took responsibility to provide for Mozart's widow and children. Mozart in Prague tells the story of the amazing civic revival that was responsible for Mozart's unique personal and musical relationship with this beautiful city and the colorful characters who helped shape it, including Marie Antoinette and Giacomo Casanova.

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