Czeski dysydent i emigrant Jiří Lederer wobec Solidarności (1980–1983)
Czech dissident and emigrant Jiří Lederer regarding Solidarity movement (1980–1983)

Summary/Abstract: Jiří Lederer (1922–1983), a journalist and writer, has left a permanent mark on the history of Czech culture and democratic opposition in Central and Eastern Europe. In the 1960s he became one of the spokespersons of the Polish-Czech agreement and an expert on Polish affairs. From the 1967 he was already a dissident, he secretly collaborated with the centres of Czech emigration in the West (Free Europe Radio Station, “Svědectví”). He was one of the champions of the Prague Spring and one of the first victims of the so called normalization (deprived of the possibility of publishing and removed from public life). A signatory to Charter77, he was condemned in 1977 for three years jail. The focus of the article is the analyse of the texts concerning the Polish independent trade union Solidarity, which were written by Lederer after 1980, when he lived in exile in Germany. During his forced stay abroad the journalist was trying to integrate Czech, Polish and Slovak political émigré centres.

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