Formation of cultural images of Slovenia in Czech journalism of the nineteenth century and their traces in contemporary memory
Formation of cultural images of Slovenia in Czech journalism of the nineteenth century and their traces in contemporary memory

Summary/Abstract: During the nineteenth century, in the Czech press we can see the formation of symbolicimages of Slovenes and Slovene culture and its history and culture that accompanied thedevelopment of mutual awareness of both countries and cultures. The intensity of these tiesculminated at the beginning of the twentieth century in all areas of the contact between the twocountries. During the twentieth century, thanks to both world wars and the political changesthey caused, as well as due to the estrangement of both regimes during the 1950s, these relationsunderwent partial degradation, accompanied by erosion of awareness of Slovenian culturein what was then Czechoslovakia. The period after 1991 is accompanied by active remindersof entirely or partially vanished symbols and narratives of mutual relations (Plečnik, MajarZiljski, Lego, Gallus, Kvederová, etc.) through events (exhibitions, conferences) or by buildingplaces of memory (memorial plaques, repair of gravestones, etc.). The study attempts to pointout the evolution of some of these symbolic images and their forgetting/remembrance today.

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