Radovan Lipus: Whispering Trails in Israel

The Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia cordially invites you to a lecture with a presentation:

May 16th at 6:00 PM Radovan Lipus: Silent Traces in Israel

The fates of creators from the Czech lands in the Holy Land. The names of architects Alfred Neumann, Paul Engelmann, Kurt Unger, and Filip Böhm are featured in significant construction projects throughout Israel. Some natives of former Czechoslovakia were present at the birth of the independent Jewish state, while others contributed to its development in vastly different areas such as fashion, the automotive industry, banknote design, and beekeeping. We must not forget visual artists such as Anna Ticho, Ludwig Blum, František Ferdinand Weil, or Otto Goldberg. All of this is narrated in Silent Traces, along with the story of a stray suitcase full of rare manuscripts by Franz Kafka, which was taken to Tel Aviv by his friend Max Brod in March 1939, precisely through Moravian Ostrava.

Radovan Lipus - author and director of the successful television series Silent Cities and Silent Traces, for which he is credited as a screenwriter along with architect David Vávra. He briefly worked in the Drama Club and from 1992 to 2008 in the ensemble of the National Theatre of Moravian-Silesian Ostrava. From 2008 to 2010 at the Švanda Theatre in Prague. Now a freelancer. He has guest-starred in various theatres such as the National Theatre, Chamber Scene Arena, Těšín Theatre, Moravian Theatre Olomouc, National Theatre Brno, ABC Theatre, Theatre on Vinohrady, and other theatres. He teaches at the Faculty of Arts at Ostrava University and at DAMU, publishes prose and essays, and participates in the authors' chamber program Nostalgia of a Café Loafer.

Events of the Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia are financially supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Open Society Fund Prague, the Statutory City of Ostrava, OKD Foundation, the City District of Moravská Ostrava and Přívoz, Czech Architecture Foundation, Czech Chamber of Architects, MUDr. David Feltl, law firm Jansa, Mokry, Otevřel and partners, Foundation Kousek po kousku.