Ivan Medek was an exceptional personality on the Czech music scene, especially in the period from 1945 to 1989. Medekʼs career in the field of music was built despite both the interests of certain people and political events. After World War II, he co-founded the Czech Chamber Orchestra which…

The study focuses on Ivan Medek’s prosecution in the second half of the 1950s. Medek was one of more than 60 people investigated and placed under trial in the so-called “Krtek” action. Medek together with some of his friends was sentenced for illegally keeping in contact with his friends in Western…

Ivan Medek established his press agency right after his arrival in Vienna, his new home in exile. The main goal was to support the domestic opposition. The core activity of this agency laid in the fast and regular provision of information regarding Czechoslovak civil initiatives towards western…

Ivan Medekʼs work as a long term freelancer of the Voice of America broadcasting station (VOA) was probably his most famous role in the public sphere. Medek started this collaboration shortly after his arrival and the start of his exile in Vienna. This relationship with VOA lasted until 1989. In…

The present article outlines the discussions and controversy between the political right and the left in the Czechoslovak opposition movement in the 1970s and 1980s, which continued in exile at colloquiums held by a Czech catholic organisation Opus Bonum that Medek – a Czech dissident, publicist and…

The present article is dedicated to the painter Mikuláš Medek (Ivan Medekʼs brother) and the photographer Emila Medkova (née Tláskalová) presenting an image of their work in the cultural and social context of the second half of the 20th century. It brings to the viewer’s eye Mikulas Medekʼs artistic…