The Vinohrady Cemetery is the resting place of great poets, writers, musicians and other important personalities for our culture. Our Poesiomat wants to enable their word and legacy to live on. Just a few meters from their graves. It actually gives the impression that the pipe's ear canal is going straight down into the ground. A voice form underground. There, in a small dungeon, the poet smokes, with a newspaper on the table, and recites to the person above who has just turned the handle of the Poesiomat.
The Poesiomat is located at the entrance to the cemetery so it is not disturbing the solemnity of the space.
Some people see a visit to a cemetery as a kind of pilgrimage to their favorite poet. They go to the grave, light a candle. To give thanks for his life's work, from which the pilgrim draws in his life.
A cemetery is a public space in a way. With Poesiomat, we would like to offer an intimate experience that can deepen awareness, offer an authentic insight into the minds of those who speak to us with the help of Poesiomat and attract more visitors. Not only those who go there to see their relatives.
Content:
- Václav Havel - Audience
- Ivan M. Havel - From Letters to Olga
- Milada Horáková - Final Words of the Condemned in the Trial of Milada Horáková before the State Court in Prague, June 8, 1950
- Václav Havel - Poem One Sunday Afternoon
- Václav Havel - Poem
- Václav Havel - Poem
- Václav Havel - Poem
- Jaroslav Foglar - Adventure on the Pond
- Václav Havel - Speech We Shall Overcome
- Václav Havel - Speech The Palace of Human Rights
- Josef Hiršal - Meditation
- Václav Havel - Temptation
- Václav Havel - Sonning Prize
- Jiří Grossmann - Purring Like a Kitten
- Václav Havel - Redevelopment
- Jan Křesadlo - Wreath of Sonnets (Sonnets XI-XII)
- Václav Havel - US Congress
- Jiří Kolář - Pegasus' Lesson
- Václav Havel - Distant Interrogation
- Petr Novák - Tombstone
Thanks for the involvement in the dramaturgy go to the Václav Havel Library, the Jaroslav Foglar Scout Foundation, the National Archive of the Czech Republic, writer Michal Šanda, and actor Tomáš Hanák, who narrated the poems by Josef Hiršal, Jan Křesadlo, and Jiří Kolář.
The project was financially supported by the Prague City Council and the Prague 10 Municipal District.