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The Festival takes place in Theatre Minor, Vodičkova 6, Prague.
Tickets on sale at the Theatre Minor box office
Mon-Fri 9.00 am - 1.00 pm, 2.30 pm - 8.00 pm
Sat-Sun 11.00 am - 8.00 pm
phone: +420 2 2223 1351
e-mail: pokladna@minor.cz
and in the Big Ben Bookshop (+420 224 82 65 65).
on-line tickets reservations - see the bottom of the page.
All events at the Theatre Minor are simultaneously translated into English and Czech.
Headphones for simultaneous translation are lent on exchange for a person´s ID.
Sunday, 21st March, "For Joseph Roth"
(gala evening, ticket + Becherovka party invitation)
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19:00 |
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Guardian Conversation: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" |
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Nadine Gordimer,
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Norman Manea,
Eda Kriseová,
Gary Younge (moderator)
"The Individual is always defeated in the end." Joseph Roth
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1. - 9. row - reserved
10.- 13. row - 250,- Kč
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Monday, 22nd March, "Guardian Day"
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15.00 |
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Conversation: "When the tongue resides outside the heart" |
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Miroslav Topinka,
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke,
Michael Hofmann,
Michael March (moderator)
"In the beginning, the wound is invisible." Edmond Jabes
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 150,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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17.00 |
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Guardian Conversation in memory of Hugo Young: "The Homelessness of Home" |
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Tadeusz Konwicki,
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Orly Castel-Bloom,
Joan Acocella,
Gary Younge (moderator)
"Neutrality is a kind of divinity." Joseph Roth
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 150,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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19.30 |
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International Evening |
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Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
Norman Manea (USA / Rumenia)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
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1. - 9. row - reserved
10.- 13. row - 220,- Kč (students 110,- Kč) |
Tuesday, 23rd March, "The Spider's Web"
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15.00 |
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Der Standard Conversation: "The New EU: The Still Unborn About the Dead." |
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Norbert Gstrein,
Antonio Tabucchi,
Jiří Gruša,
Eda Kriseová,
Gerfried Sperl (moderator)
"From humanity via nationalism to bestiality." Franz Grillparzer
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 100,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč |
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17.00 |
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Guardian Conversation: "What is tradition? Everything begins with me." |
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Nadine Gordimer,
Norman Manea,
Gary Shteyngart,
Robert Irwin,
Gary Younge (moderator)
"Man is a puzzle, and above all it is impossible to help him." Joseph Roth
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 100,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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19.30 |
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International Evening |
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Tadeusz Konwicki (Poland)
Norbert Gstrein (Austria)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Germany)
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1. - 6. row - reserved
7. - 9. row - 150,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 75,- Kč
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Wednesday 24th March, "Flight Without End"
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15.00 |
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Reading: "The Art of Poetry" |
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Miloslav Topinka (Czech Republic)
Zbigniew Machej (Poland)
Jim Naughton (moderator)
"Better for the poet to mutilate his own tongue than to dignify the inhuman either with his gift or uncaring."
George Steiner
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 13. row - 60,- Kč
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17.00 |
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Conversation in memory of George Plimpton: "The Art of Publishing" |
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Stavros Petsopoulos (Agra Publications, Greece)
Peter Mayer (The Overlook Press, New York)
Robert Weil (W.W. Norton, New York)
Alexander Tomský (moderator)
"The light of the public obscures everything." Martin Heidegger
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 100,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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19.30 |
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International Evening |
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Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Greece)
Michael Hofmann (Great Britain)
Robert Irwin (Great Britain)
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1. - 8. row - reserved
9. - 13. row - 150,- Kč (students 75,- Kč)
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Thursday, 25th March, "In Dark Times"
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15.00 |
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Der Standard Conversation: "Vienna: The metropolis of the ethical vacuum" |
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Robert Menasse,
Michael Hofmann,
Günter Traxler,
Alan Levy, Karel Schwarzenberg,
Gerfried Sperl (moderator)
"If there's nothing else to do, I'll eat my hat." Bertold Brecht
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 100,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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17.00 |
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Conversation: "Defeat is the price agreed upon." |
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Tadeusz Konwicki,
Orly Castel - Bloom,
Norman Manea,
Antonio Tabucchi,
Spiros Vergos (moderator)
"It is easier to die for the masses than to live with them." Joseph Roth
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1. - 3. row - reserved
4. - 9. row - 100,- Kč
10.- 13. row - 50,- Kč
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19.30 |
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International Evening |
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Eda Kriseová (Czech Republic)
Orly Castel-Bloom (Israel)
Gary Shteyngart (USA)
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1. - 6. row - reserved
7. - 13. row - 200,- Kč (students 100,- Kč)
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Please, fill in your name and surname, your e-mail address
and your order: day, row, tickets' number.
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