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TRADICE A SOUČASNOST KOLÁŘSKÉ VÝROBY NA VALAŠSKU

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Liďák P.

Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)

2013

vol. 20

issue 1-2

105 – 119

Wheelwrights enjoyed always a position of respect in comparison to the other rural craftsmen. They made wheels of all sizes and built complete wagons, carts, two-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled trailers. Their products included also sledges, the wooden parts of ploughs, harrows, various handles and parts for agricultural implements and axe handless. In the villages master wheelwrights were indispensable craftsmen until the first half of the 20th century, when they were put of work by the advances in the mechanization of agriculture. The replacement of wooden carts by modern means of transport led to the gradual demise of wheelwright ś workshops. Most of these workshops were taken over by the local agricultural cooperatives in the 1950s, after which they produced only wooden handles and repaired the wooden parts of agricultural equipment. A rare example where the wheelwright´s trade has survived to the present day is the small workshop of Augustin Krystyník in Nový Hrozenkov, one of the last wheelwrights in the Czech Republic. This study is dedicated to the history of the wheelwright ś trade and homemade wheel making in Moravian Wallachia. It documents the production technique and range of products, which was closely linked to agriculture. On the basis of field research, it maps also the present day of wheelwright ś craft, which differs from the historical craft due to its increased usage of modern machinery.

THREE UNDISCOVERED UTOPIAS IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE FROM THE CZECH PERIPHERY: MORAVIAN WALLACHIA AND ZLÍN

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Marek L.

World Literature Studies

2021

vol. 13

issue 2

81 - 98

This study examines three literary utopias from the margins of German literature, namely German-language literature from Eastern Moravia. The works chosen for analysis are the dramatic cycle The City of People (Die Stadt der Menschen) by Moravian-born Austrian writer and visionary Susanne Schmida (1894–1981), the novel The Imperial City (Die Kaiserstadt) by the Austrian writer and diplomat Paul Zifferer (1879–1929), and the text “The City of the Future” (“Die Stadt des Kommenden”) by the German-speaking Czechoslovak author Walter Seidl. In all the texts examined, the model of urban landscape is used as the location of utopia: the prototype of an abstract futuristic city (Schmida), Vienna as an exemplar of political utopia (Zifferer), and Zlín as a fully realized social utopia (Seidl). These three sites show a complementary gradation in the sense of the (potential) realization of utopian ideas, i.e. the belief that, put simply, “it was once good” (Zifferer), “it is good” (Seidl), and “it will be good” (Schmida).

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TRADICE A SOUČASNOST KOLÁŘSKÉ VÝROBY NA VALAŠSKU

THREE UNDISCOVERED UTOPIAS IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE FROM THE CZECH PERIPHERY: MORAVIAN WALLACHIA AND ZLÍN