Muses to the Front! (Musen an die Front!)

Authors and artists

in the service of the KuK war propaganda 1914-1918

The exhibition and the accompanying publications present the known or unknown share of literature and art on the First World War. They tell the story of artists and intellectuals who swayed between patriotism and pacifism and describes their voluntary engagement in war matters. In the large number of names quoted, various views on the war can be observed but biographies too, often depict the various phases and transformations of individuals. A significant number of authors, writers and artists who serviced in the KuK war-propaganda came from Bohemia and Moravia ; a reality given much attention in the exhibition.

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Posters from the Terezin Ghetto 1941-45

The thirty-five panels feature reproductions of hand-made posters for opera and cabaret performances, classical and contemporary music concerts, choir evenings and academic lectures that were made by the Terezin prisoners during their helpless situation in the concentration camp. Despite suffering inhumane conditions, they found time and strength for cultural activities and, faced constantly with death, made this a sign against the inhumanity. The contributions of the historian Dr. Rudolf Wlaschek, Mönchengladbach, made it possible for these posters (in the German language) to be publicly exhibited for the first time.

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The Photographer Werner Neumeister

Photographs of Prague , Bohemia and Moravia

For 20 years – from 1966 to 1986 – the Adalbert Stifter Association and the Neumeister Studio shared a large space with offices and a library for the Adalbert Stifter Association and a studio and dark room for the photographer Werner Neumeister. Throughout the years, co-operation for exhibitions or publications intensified. Werner Neumeister teaches one to „see“ in entirely new and different ways.

Using the theme of the first encounter „ Prague , Bohemia and Moravia “ the Adalbert Stifter Association hopes to come closer to the secret of an artist and friend, who passed away in 1997 – in grateful memory.

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Iradicated Traces

German-speaking Jewish authors from Moravia

With the „Iradicated Traces“ exhibition, the Adalbert Stifter Association reminds us of 25 German-speaking Jewish authors, who were born in Moravia in the last two centuries. The exhibition presents biographies and literary works of authors, who are “overshadowed by Prague ’s German literature“ (Zdeněk Mareček) and, with a few exceptions, are not represented in the book trade and are hardly recognised by the reader population.

Same Pictures – Same Words

Germans, Austrians and Czechs in Caricature 1848-1948

As it is known to all, we remember pictures better than words. This becomes clear in caricature. This exhibition illustrates a century of Czech-German neighbourly relations, as reflected in its distorted form in satirical and humorous magazines, when indignation and prejudice lead the drawing pencil and drawing nibs.

German, Austrian and Czech magazines were treated equally and such caricatures selected that made confrontation possible. Both concrete historical events and general topics were considered, when the exhibition was created.

Michel: "Jetzt, Wenzel, reden wir Zwei einmal                                             miteinander ..."

Wenzel: "Is´ schunn recht, aber nur böhmisch!"