Ostrava Arrivals on Czech Radio Ostrava
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Ostrava Arrivals on Czech Radio Ostrava
20.07.2010
- Eva Dřízgová-Jirušová -
a soprano and leading soloist with the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. A
two-time winner of the Czech Thalia Award, she studied voice at the
conservatory in Brno and took up an engagement in Ostrava in the mid-1980s. 13.07.2010
- Oldřich Pražák - an
architect who came to Ostrava on a so-called placement order. As an employee of
Stavoprojekt at the end of the 1950s, he took part in the build-up of Karviná,
Nový Jičín, Kopřivnice and Bohumín. 06.07.2010
- Miroslav Rataj - an
actor with the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and a native of Zlín, he was
a member of many theatre companies throughout the country before fate finally
led him to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis, where he has settled. 29.06.2010 - Roberto Marshall - an English teacher who was born in Rome but spent the first 30 years of his life in the United States. He was led to Ostrava out of curiosity and the desire to travel. He originally came to visit a friend, but he grew fond of the city and has lived here for 10 years. 22.6.2010 - Jan Rokyta - a respected folklorist, excellent musician and radio editor, he grew up in Jasenná in the Wallachian region and came to Ostrava as a student more than 50 years ago. In Ostrava, he founded the band Cimbálová muzika Technik, and he has built up an extensive archive of folk recordings for radio. 15. 6. 2010 – Dorotka Palkovská – reflects upon the life of her father, Nikolai Cybulsky, who after 1917 fled Ukraine from the Bolsheviks, who had killed his parents and siblings. After a long journey, he finally arrived in Czechoslovakia, in Ostrava, where he found a wife and started a family. But he didn’t manage to live out a quiet existence here either.
8.6.2010 - Tereza Pogodová - a theatre dramaturge and translator who came to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis for love. She has lived in Ostrava for eight years now and has grown fond of the city. How is life for her in the third most populous city in the country? 1. 6. 2010 – Jiří Hruška – born in Valašské Meziříčí, he came to Ostrava at the age of 19 to study, and remained here. A history teacher at the Pavel Tigrid Languages High School in Ostrava–Poruba, he is has co-organized important cultural and educational activities. 25. 5. 2010 – Arnošt Felkl – moved to Ostrava with his parents in 1950 when he was 11 years old. He took his first tram ride here, became a fan of the local cinemas, and when he got his first temporary job in a mine he bought himself a dreamt-of pair of skates.
18. 5. 2010 – Zdenka Crkvenjaš – the head of the Burn Unit at the University Hospital Ostrava. She lived in Sarajevo until the age of twelve. She moved to Ostrava in 1992 because of the war in Yugoslavia and has remained in Ostrava ever since. 11. 5. 2010 – Rudolf Tlapák – a distinguished Ostrava resident, principal of the Matiční High School and cultural figure, after whom one of Ostrava’s street is now named. He came to Ostrava from Bohemia when he was 24 years old. Ostrava native Marie Konečná remembers her grandfather.
4. 5. 2010 – David Feltl – the chief of the Oncology Clinic at the University Hospital Ostrava comes from Prague. He came to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis in January of 2006 to work. How is life for him in Ostrava?
27.4.2010 - Michael Tichý – he was born and grew up in Brno, and came to Ostrava on a “placement order” when he was not yet 18 years old. His professional life is connected with radio, a field in which he has worked since 1960 as a technician and a sound master.
20.4.2010 - Ludvík Kunc – an artist and a journalist who was literally born for a life with animals and nature. In fact, he was brought from Bohemia to Ostrava by animals and the Ostrava Zoo, where he spent many years. He applied his knowledge in illustrations and in books he has written about animals.
13.4.2010 - Jan Folprecht – a distinguished Ostrava geologist and archaeologist who in the 1920s and 1930s was the first to systematically explore the history of Ostrava below the surface. Telling about his grandfather will be the founder of the Ostrava Museum of Zithers and his namesake, Jan Folprecht. 6.4.2010 - actor Tomáš Jirman - Ostravans know him from myriad theatre productions. He has been acting on local stages successfully since 1983. He looks back on the beginning of his Ostrava acting career, talks about Ostrava pubs and about his work as a radio director. 30.3.2010 - Ilona Kučerová - this cellist and concert producer organizes stellar concerts in the Moravian-Silesian metropolis. She was born in Litomyšl and moved to Ostrava from Brno 28 years ago. How is life for her in the city? 23.3.2010 – Sotiris Pupakis - He saw Ostrava for the first time at 14 years old, when he came here together with other Greek children whose parents sent them out into the world in order to protect them from the civil war. He moved to Ostrava for the second time because of his wife and has remained here ever since. Among other activities here he founded the Greek community of Ostrava. 16.3.2010 - Ivan Motýl - a columnist, journalist and poet who moved to Ostrava at age 7 from Klatovy. It was not easy for him at that time to get used to a big, unfamiliar city. How did he view Ostrava more than thirty years ago, and how does he view it today? 9.3.2010 - Lubomír Karbula - an artist who comes from the Slovak town of Sládkovičovo. From Slovakia, he first arrived in south Moravia. Finally, fate led him northeastward to Ostrava. How does he find life in the Moravian-Silesian metropolis? 2.3.2010 - Jan Fišar - a star actor of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. He grew up in Prague and at the beginning of the 1980s came to Ostrava, which he finds very charismatic. He tells about his favourite traditional Ostrava pubs, among other things. 23.2.10 – Kumar Vishwanathan - a social worker and street activist of Indian origin who has won a number of awards for his activities in the area of human rights. He first came to Ostrava in 1997 to assist victims of the devastating floods. Eventually, Ostrava became his new home. 16.2.10 – Zdeněk Tofel - a long-time music editor and music director at Czech Radio Ostrava comes from the village of Kozlovice on the border of Lachia and Moravian Wallachia. In addition to his radio work he also teaches and makes music himself. With the cimbalom music of the Valašský vojvoda (Wallachian Duke) folk ensemble, he has travelled half way around the world, but he can’t leave Ostrava behind. 9.2.10 - Eva Teicherová - coordinator of the Charita Ostrava volunteer movement. Trained as a lawyer, she was born in the Slovak city of Martin and spent most of her life in Bratislava. She came to Ostrava 10 years ago to be with her daughter. 2.2.10 - Jiří Flek - born and raised in the Bohemian town of Louny, he came to Ostrava at the end of the 1950s. He worked as a foreman in a coal mine for over 30 years, and is still closely associated with the mining industry. You can meet him at the Mining Museum in Ostrava’s Landek district, where he is one of the guides. 26.1.2010 - Anna Wolfová - she was born in Ostrava, but her father immigrated here from Poland in 1915. In her recollections of her childhood, Ostrava of the first half of the 20th century comes to life. 19.1.2010 – Karel Bartovský – he was born in Pilsen, where he lived during the war years and also the liberation by the American Army. When he first was married, he moved to Karviná in order to obtain housing, and then later to Ostrava. In his 81 years of life, he has much to look back on. 12.1.2010 - Maria Knapitsch - this teacher of the German language and also student of Slavic studies lives in Ostrava, where she moved to from her native Austria. She was led to the Movarian-Silesian metropolis by love and also an interest in the Czech language. 5.1.10 - Francois Bouillet– he came to Ostrava in 2003, when, after completing his studies in his native France, he decided to go out into the world and work as a teacher of the French language. In addition to teaching at Ostrava University, he has also taught at two high schools. 29.12.09 - Olga Pustková – she came to Ostrava sixty years ago from Slovakia, when she was 15 years old. Her family was no longer able to support her, so she had to take care of herself. She raised five children in Ostrava, and has a lot on which to look back.
22.12.09 - Zora Rozsypalová – an actress who celebrated her 87th birthday in September 2009. If this energetic and perpetually smiling woman would write down all of her recollections, it would fill several novels. During the war she was used as forced labour, she worked for an illegal scouting group, she staged home performances. Then after the war she acted at theatres in Jihlava and Olomouc until finally she settled permanently in Ostrava. 15.12.09 - Louis Smith – a New Yorker who was drawn to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis to do linguistic research. How does this North American with Latin American roots perceive Ostrava? What from Ostrava would he gladly transplant to New York and what, on the other hand, doesn’t appeal to him? 8.12.09 – Koloman Mirga – Those who know him don’t call him anything other than Kalman. No large Roma funeral in the Ostrava area takes place without his music. This excellent violinist and lead cimbalom musician from Slovakia came to Ostrava for work in the second half of the 1970s. 1.12.09 - Jaroslav Malík – A photographer who came to Ostrava from Zlaté Hory. As he himself says, he never dreamed that he could live in Ostrava, let alone fall in love with the city. For ten years now, Ostrava’s raw beauty has been subject matter both for his photography and also for his contemplation. 24.11.09 – Jiří Neduha – musician, actor, writer and globetrotter, who grew up in from Prague. He first came to Ostrava as a young man on military service. Then he emigrated to Canada, where he spent ten years. He came to Ostrava for the second time to be with his girlfriend and has now settled here indefinitely. 17.11.09 – Rostislav Sochorec – a long-time Ostrava resident who moved to the city fifty years ago from south Moravia. His father, Rostislav Sochorec, was a deputy in the Czechoslovak National Assembly and became one of the first victims of the Red Terror. 10.11.09 – Eliška Macková – an architect who was born and raised in Prague, moved to Ostrava three years ago to be with her boyfriend. Together with two of their colleagues they operate an architectural studio in Ostrava. 3.11.09 – Sirma Zidaro - An “Ostravan” of Bulgarian-French origins who arrived in Ostrava fifty years ago. She found her place here as a teacher, translator, journalist, chanson singer, and vice-chairman of the Bulgarian cultural organization in the Czech Republic. 27.10.09 – Kostas Lagonikas - He came to Czechoslovakia as a two-year-old boy in 1948, when there was a civil war in Greece. Fate finally blew him into Ostrava, where he became a multiple-time champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. 20.10.09 – Petr Bende - A singer and musician, he comes from Újezd u Rosic, a small village near Brno. He came to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis for love. This is his third year living in Ostrava, and as he himself says, he can’t give it up. 13.10.09 – Anne Christine Trochut-Průšová - This elegant Frenchwoman followed her husband to Ostrava in the mid-1990s. She began to teach French at the Pavel Tigrid Languages High School. She likes Ostrava and thinks it is a great city for culture. 6.10.09 – Boleslav Navrátil - A journalist and writer who has been living in Ostrava since 1962. Although his first meeting with the so-called “steel heart of the republic” was shocking, with time the city grew in his heart, and he still lives here today. 29.9.09 - Lukáš Henzl - graphic artist and teacher who moved to Ostrava from Havlíčkův Brod for
work. He has lived here for 5 years and teaches at the city's Secondary
School of Visual Arts. 22.9.09 - Kateřina Karpíšková - headteacher at a primary school. She came to Ostrava 25 years ago as a
student of Charles University in Prague, and found a new home in her adopted
city. 15.9.09 - Peter Krajniak - originally from Bratislava, he came to Ostrava for work: for the last four
years he has been the director of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.9.09 - Rajko Doleček – a well-known doctor - endocrinologist who came to Ostrava thanks to a job placement (resettlement) in 1950. He has become loyal to Ostrava ever since. 1.9.09 - Jaroslav Nosräti – a businessman of Czech-Persian origin who came to Ostrava in 1990 thanks to the returned family properties. |
