Our main focus is both the past and the present of the Slovaks which is reflected in their culture and identity. On clear days we can see from our office windows the massif of Babia Góra on the horizon; working on this issue we wished to make Slovakia and its culture not only equally visible to but also better understood by its closest and more remote neighbours.
Among authors are: Magda Vášáryová, Rafał Majerek, Rudolf Chmel, Juraj Buzalka, Miroslav Michela, Peter Michalík, Naďa Hrčková, Maria Pötzlová Malíková, Dana Bořutová, Michał Burdziński.
Moreover, in this issue: Andrzej S. Jagodziński talks to the satirist Milan Lasica about differences between Slovak and Czech sense of humour in the context of recent history; Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga and Vladimir Beskíd on the creative city of Kosice; young artists draw a map of cultural unrest behind the southern border; Márian Amsler, Mária Ferenčuhová, Ľubica Kobová, Juraj Buzalka and Magdalena Bystrzak sum up the most important events in Slovak theatre, film, literature and social studies.
Content
Editorial
Worth a look
Magda Vášáryová – In search of a lost Slovakia
Rafał Majerek – Who are the Slovaks? The revival sources of Slovak identity
Rudolf Chmel – Two Slovakias
Juraj Buzalka – On the future of a certain idea
Miroslav Michela – Recreating and preserving the past. Reflections on the margins of several discussions on Slovak history
Peter Michalík – A note from a certain meeting
Naďa Hrčková – Tracing the story of Slovak music
Mária Pötzlová-Malíková – Messerschmidt – a forgotten artist?
Dana Bořutová – Slovak architecture on the path of emancipation
Michał Burdziński – Young Slovakia. About the meanders of modern art between Žilina and Košice
With a pinch of salt. Milan Lasica talks to Andrzej S. Jagodziński
Milan Lasica – Excerpts
Creative Košice. Vladimír Beskid talks to Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga
Places of cultural commotion
Marián Amsler – Theatre in Slovakia 2011/2012
Mária Ferenčuhová – Slovak film and its Central European identity in a world of change
Ľubica Kobová – A new perspective. The history of gender in Slovakia
Juraj Buzalka – The Slovak-Hungarian borderland as a story of contemporary Central Europe
Magdalena Bystrzak – Central Europe in practice