The article deals with physical evidence of games deposited in archaeological sub-collection of Silesian Museum in Opava. First, it is necessary to divide the world of games into games for children and for adults. The main element of any game is entertainment. However, children and adults have different reasons for playing. Games for children often simulate the adult world and are connected with the process of learning. In adulthood games have different reason; they usually do not lead towards knowledge but to the release of excess energy and satisfaction of natural need of relaxation. In this text, the items intended for games are divided into toys for children and parts of game sets meant for adults. The distinction between these categories may be unclear. Following the general information and problems of interpretation, the article deals with individual types of toys or game sets represented in the archaeological sub-collection of Silesian Museum in Opava. The text refers to catalogue which is included at the end of the article.
Author of this article gives his attention to the work of Anton Ernst Beyer (1704–1773), one of the leading Baroque painters in Opava. In this study, new facts concerning the biography of the artist are presented, as well as new findings of hithero unknown works, created on behalf of the donators from former Prussian Silesia. Furthermore some unknown sources of his painting style are disscussed and the role of the work of Beyer against the background of relationship between the Opava region and Lower Silesia.
The study focuses on the investigation of the prison and camp guards during the Nazi occupation in the retributory court proceedings in Western Czech Silesia between 1945 and 1948. It aims to map the age, social and professional structure of the guards and their motivation to pursue such controversial profession. The subject of the research is also the attitude of the court system towards the individual guard categories and the influence of the broader social context on the severity of the sentences imposed by the court.
A typology of associations in Austrian Silesia in the second half of the 19 th century is an attempt to reinterpret the function of an association in the region within its political, social and mental realities: the type of association, expressed by its name, is vital for understanding its function and for creating links between different types of associations within a complex national political and cultural representation.
Emil Kutscha, native of Moravice, an important representative of Social Democratic Party of Germany (DSAP) in Silesia worked in Opava in 1918–1937 and spent the remaining months till his escape from the border area occupied by Germans on 1st October 1938 in Krnov. He was a member of the local authority in Opava and in 1923‒1938 a party district secretary; in 1930 he also became the member of the party presidium. In the 1930 he was a member of the party directorate of printing works and publishing house Vorwärts. He deputized for the publisher in the editorial board of the party paper „Volkspresse“ published in Opava, and so he could have influence the content of the newspapers significantly. In his articles he acted as uncompromising critic of Nazis.
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