Marie Imbrova, Ph.D. - Official Website - Archive 2012
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June 2012
Article Title: TWO DEMANDING DAYS IN VICTORIA FALLS
Source: Magazine PRESTIGE - Clubs & Circles, No. 2012/1, Pages 83 - 85/Dr. Marie Imbrova
I undertake a journey to Zimbabwe already for several years at the turn of February and March, both for me to avoid the end of Czech winter, and especially for me to revive my activities in this country, and to follow up on previous contacts.
A part of my programme is also always a stay in Tengenenge, where I work as a volunteer for the local children community that I continue to support strongly through the Tengenenge Friends Club.
Finally for every year, I determine always one more unique and totally specific target, which in this year, is the promotion of the link to the Emil Holub's works in the Czech Republic and in Zimbabwe, particularly in Victoria Falls, in a little town near the Victoria Falls...
You will find the entire Dr. Marie Imbrova's article here (available in Czech language only).
June 2012
Article Title: AFRICAN EVENING IN A HOTEL
Source: Magazine PRESTIGE - Clubs & Circles, No. 2012/1, Page 82/Dr. Marie Imbrova
The African Evening associated with a vernissage of a sales exhibition of stone sculptures from Zimbabwe which was held on Thursday, May 10 at the hotel premises and on the hotel terrace, was an extraordinary combination of exquisite space, discreetly installed exhibition in the interior and richly layered programme which organized the Atelier AfrickeSochy.cz of the spouses Homolka ...
… Besides the classic launch of the vernissage of sculptures to which Ondrej Homolka had a presentation, the guests were also familiarized with the possibilities of charitable support of activities of the Tengenenge Friends Club in the Czech Republic, whose founder, an African studies expert, Marie Imbrova was also present…
June 2012
Article Title: THE ROUDNICE CASTLE REVIVES. HOSTED A CONCERT, NOW ATTRACTS VISITORS TO CASTLE TOURS AND TO EXHIBITION
Source: iDNES.cz/Usti and Usti Region, News, June 30, 2012, 08:02 a.m./Tomas Kassal
... The exhibition "CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART", which will start on July 3, 2012 and will last until September, is, for Roudnice and Roudnice Castle, interesting for three reasons.
It was prepared by Marie Imbrova, an African Studies expert, that comes from Roudnice. It introduces contemporary African art and artists, which is an unusual thing in the Czech Republic. And thirdly, thanks to an exhibition about Africa the Podripske Museum returns to the Roudnice castle…
The entire Tomas Kassal's article can be found at www.usti.idnes.cz (available in Czech language only).
June 2012
Article Title: IN TENGENENGE, THEY HAVE A NURSERY THANKS TO MARIE FROM LOUNY DISTRICT
Source: BLESK - Bohemia, Bohemia-Moravia, Page 8, June 15, 2012/Jana Ulrichova
She returned home from the diplomatic service. But she remained with her heart in Africa...
Marie Imbrova (52), from Cernochov in Louny Region, worked three and half years as a Consul, and then as a Chargé d'Affaires of the Czech Embassy in Zimbabwean Harare. Although she left the diplomacy, the links with Africa, especially with the unique Tengenenge community, she did not break. She founded a civic association to help the local children. Its activity, the members pay from their own pockets ... (available in Czech language only).
May 2012
Article Title: LECTURE BY A MEMBER OF THE CLUB IN VIENNA
Source: Internet Magazine CESKY DIALOG - CZECH DIALOGUE - Connecting Czechs at Home and Abroad, Rubric - The International Czech Club, No. 5/2012, May 2012/Maf
Marie Imbrova, a member of the International Czech Club is a very active woman. And not only in the Czech Republic and Zimbabwe, in the country which has almost become her second home.
Recently, she lectured, namely, for the students in the Czech Jan Amos Komensky School in Vienna. Of course, on the topic of the children in Tengenenge, a sculpture colony in Zimbabwe, where Marie Imbrova is trying to help the local children in access to the education and health care. A long time, she resided in Zimbabwe as a Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Czech Republic, and now, she returns back privately and helps as she can. She is interested in African art as well. She founded in the Czech Republic the Tengenenge Friends Club and already she had two meetings with us in the International Czech Club, always with great success. Also, her lecture in Vienna was very appreciated by the school pupils and teachers. The School Principal, Mrs. Mag. Helen Huber, sent us a photo of the debate that we are pleased to publish.
Link: www.cesky-dialog.net
May 2012
Article Title: PIETY ACT DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF EMIL HOLUB
Source: Website of Czech Centre in Vienna, May 30, 2012/Czech Centre, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Marie Imbrova, the African studies expert, former diplomat in Zimbabwe and today the freelance independent consultant in Politics, Education and Culture...
...spoke during the piety act at the grave of Dr. Emil Holub at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof). The following day, she had, on the initiative of the Vienna Czech Centre, a lecture on Emil Holub for the Comenius High School pupils in Vienna, with which she also debated about her work and life in Zimbabwe.
The full report and photos from the visit of Marie Imbrova in Vienna on May 19 - 23, 2012 can be found at wien.czechcentres.cz (available in Czech or German language only).
April 2012
Article Title: MY TRIPS TO TENGENENGE
Source: CzechFolks.com PLUS - More Articles, More Entertainment - May 06, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
Very seldom, I remember my first trip to Tengenenge. It took place sometime in late September 2005, a few weeks after I and my family moved to Zimbabwe for several years. My former ambassador concluded that the work only in the office and the city life could bore me. He was right. Tengenenge is a wonderful art community and the village of about a thousand people based at the foot of a stone mine, about 150 km to the north of Harare. It was established artificially in the sixties of last century by a former tobacco grower Tom Blomfield, who never denied his sense of adventure and artistic inclinations. And this man, after he devoted himself to this community for more than forty years, lived in one of the local huts, made sculptures with his original workers, organized exhibitions around the world, left it for health reasons. However, he was trying to ensure to his friends reasonable conditions for survival, and thus the whole year of 2007 he lobbied in all possible and impossible circles for ensure that someone would take up the administration of the village and manage its development...
Dr. Marie Imbrova with a sculpture from Tengenenge, photo: Jana Ulrichova
You can read the entire article of Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.czechfolks.com (available in Czech language only).
Link: www.novina.cz
April 2012
Article Title: AFRICAN JEWEL
Source: Chrudimka.cz, April 18, 2012, 08:56 a.m./Matej Zelinka (Worky)
In the Vodni zdroje Chrudim, there is up to April 27, 2012 an exhibition of contemporary and traditional African jewels from the collection of Marie Imbrova, an African studies expert. In addition to jewels from North Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Zanzibar, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and other countries, the exhibition is accompanied by photographs showing details of jewels that are authored by Jiri Bouda...
...The exhibition is the selling one and you can make a reservation of the selected jewel on the phone 723004397 or at gutzer@centrum.cz.
You can find the entire Matej Zelinka's article at www.chrudimka.cz (available in Czech language only).
April 2012
Article Title: ON EMIL HOLUB'S ANNIVERSARIES
Source: CzechFolks.com PLUS - More Articles, More Entertainment - April 11, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
"Your Imperial and Royal Majesty! An Austrian subject, who works abroad for his country, who did not shirk exertions or victims in order to achieve his worthy objective, is abandoned and ill in the inhospitable abroad and is anxiously longing for the beloved fatherland."
This way, Dr. Frantisek Holub turned in the letter, dated in Prague, March 04, 1878, signed as a healer in Patek in Bohemia, to the Emperor Franz Joseph I., when he informed him about the fact that his subject Emil Holub in Africa is seriously ill, destitute and without financial resources.
Judging by comments on the letter, the request was registered in the Minutes of the Imperial Office and was added in writing under it by a red pencil the sum of FL 1000 which Emil Holub received in all likelihood ...
You can read the entire article of Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.czechfolks.com (available in Czech language only).
March 2012
Article Title: WITH THE SVOBODNY HLAS REGION WEEKLY IN VICTORIA FALLS
Source: SVOBODNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 21, Number 4, Page 13, March 28, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
The Editors of The Svobodny Hlas Region Weekly received an e-mail from Zimbabwe, from Dr. Marie Imbrova. She took to Zimbabwe even a copy of The Svobodny Hlas Region Weekly. For the pleasure of readers we publish ... (available in Czech language only):
Link: www.svobodnyhlas.cz
March 2012
Article Title: HYPERINFLATION IN ZIMBABWE II.: The First Third of the Year 2008 - From Million to Fifty Times More
Source: M & B - Journal about Coins, Banknotes and Medals, Volume 5, No. 2/2012, Pages 46 - 49, March 15, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
Just the first days of January left nobody in doubt that we are in the whirl of the hyperinflation. In the little shops decorated during the Christmas holidays with sparkling Chinese chains, boards and signs for sale or closed forever have appeared.
Those few thousands of people in Harare who still had a job, they lost it from day to day, there was even no paper for notice letters and even nobody would hardly deliver them.
During the first weeks of January, it was still a fantastic summer, already there have been reported regularly blackouts and in many parts of the city a hunt for food began. Meanwhile, the Central Bank promptly informed us on the issue of a new series of bearer cheques in denominations of 1, 5 and 10 million of Zimbabwean dollars.
Within a few tens of hours everyone, who was in Harare still paid for work, became a millionaire. One of the poorest in the world...
The entire second part of a six-part serial of HYPERINFLATION IN ZIMBABWE you can read here (available in Czech language only).
March 2012
Radio Programme: LIVE EMIL HOLUB'S TRACKS
Source: CZECH RADIO, CRo No. 6, Programme: Forever Alive History, March 03, 2012, 09:10 p.m./David Hertl
The year 2012 is the year of two round anniversaries of the famous Czech explorer Emil Holub. He was born in 1847 in Holice in the Pardubice Region and died in 1902 in Vienna. Between these dates there is a lot of adventure and successes, but also a bad luck, failure and misunderstanding. Is it still possible today to discover something new, "about Holub"? ...
…Where Holub's African journeys led and what he brought from them, Marie Imbrova says in the programme "Forever Alive History". In Africa, she followed the Holub's tracks, and recently even issued at her own expense a copy of the first printed map of the Victoria Falls, elaborated by Emil Holub...
…How was the first African Holub's stay? How did his journeys into the heart of the Black Continent look? Why is Holub appreciated so much in Africa today? And was the Emil Holub's wife truly like she was portrayed in the movie "Jara Cimrman lying, dormant" by Ladislav Smoljak and Zdenek Sverak?
Marie Imbrova, an African studies expert, and one of the two statues of Emil Holub,
of which the first one, exactly the same, is standing in front of the National Museum in Livingstone, Zambia
Photo: David Hertl
You can listen to the whole David Hertl's programme "LIVE EMIL HOLUB'S TRACKS" with Dr. Marie Imbrova here (available in Czech language only).
Link: www.rozhlas.cz
February 2012
TV Interview: EMIL HOLUB: 110 YEARS SINCE HIS DEATH
Source: CZECH TELEVISION, Channel CT24, Programme - Studio No. 6, February 21, 2012, 07:30 a.m./Barbora Krouzkova and Frantisek Lutonsky
On February 21, 2012 Dr. Marie Imbrova gave in the Studio No. 6 on the Channel CT24 of the Czech Television an interview to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the death of the Czech explorer Dr. Emil Holub.
You can see the record of the entire Barbora Krouzkova and Frantisek Lutonsky's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.ceskatelevize.cz (available in Czech language only).
February 2012
Article Title: FOR EMIL HOLUB, GO TO ZATEC
Source: Zatecky a Lounsky denik.cz - My Zatec and Louny Region, February 16, 2012, 05:56 p.m./Ivo Chrastecky
Zatec - What has the most famous Czech explorer Emil Holub in common with Zatec?
The fact that here, in the Regional Museum K. A. Polanek, an exhibition titled Emil Holub and the Victoria Falls is running, is definitely not a coincidence. In Zatec, Emil Holub attended the high school and is belonging to its most important graduates. The exhibition was organized on the occasion of 110 years since his death...
...As Marie Imbrova, author of the exhibiton, notes, Emil Holub belonged among the first twenty Europeans who visited demonstrably the Victoria waterfalls. His importance lies mainly in the fact that he, as the first one, precisely focused them and drew them into a map. During his trips, he also mapped the tribes on the Lower Zambezi...
...She is preparing on the "Holub" theme a lecture with the same name. It will take place on February 22 from 10:30 a.m. in the Modern Art Gallery in Roudnice nad Labem.
You can find the entire article at www.zatecky.denik.cz (available in Czech language only).
February 2012
Article Title: SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY'S REPRESENTATIVES CAME TO OPEN THE EXHIBITON
Source: Zatecky a Lounsky denik.cz - Culture, February 13, 2012, 02:21 p.m./Petr Kinst
Zatec - The exhibiton on Emil Holub, who walked to the Zatec High School, began this weekend.
The exhibition about this most famous Czech explorer runs in the Regional Museum K. A. Polanek in Zatec on the ocassion of the 110th anniversary of the death of traveller Emil Holub. The exhibition named Emil Holub and the Victoria Falls will continue there until mid-August. On display there are various items from the Southern Africa, as well as maps, which made E. Holub, whose fate is linked with Zatec, famous.
The Friday night's opening was also attended by the Representatives of the South African Embassy in Prague, which participated in the exhibition. "Objects from the exhibition are very familiar to me, I feel here like at home," said the Counsellor of the Embassy Mr. Dasa ...
...The author of the exhibition, Marie Imbrova, held similar exhibitions in the nineties in the District Museum in Louny, where she worked as a curator, and in the Castle in Patek. "Emil Holub was one of the first twenty Europeans who visited demonstrably the Victoria waterfalls. His importance lies mainly in the fact that he, as the first one, precisely focused them and drew them into a map. During his trips, he also mapped the tribes on the Lower Zambezi, "she said at the opening of the exhibition ...
You can find the entire article at www.zatecky.denik.cz (available in Czech language only).
February 2012
Radio Programme: LIFE AND TRAVELS OF EMIL HOLUB (PART 2) - TO THE LAND OF THE MASHUKULUMBWE
Source: CZECH RADIO, Czech Radio - North, Programme: Planetarium, February 11, 2012, 05:45 p.m./Frederik Velinsky, Veronika Kindlova and Dr. Marie Imbrova
You can listen the whole performance of Dr. Marie Imbrova in the second part of the radio programme: "LIFE AND TRAVELS OF EMIL HOLUB - TO THE LAND OF THE MASHUKULUMBWE" here at www.rozhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).
The show will be broadcasted on the Czech Radio from February 11 to February 20, 2012 on the regional radio stations as follows:
- Czech Radio Region - Central Bohemia - Saturday, February 11, 06:04 a.m.; Thursday, February 16, 03:05 a.m.;
- Czech Radio North - Saturday, February 11, 05:10 p.m.; Thursday, February 16, 03:05 a.m.;
- Czech Radio Leonardo - Monday, February 13, 04:00 p.m.; Friday, February 17, 08:00 a.m.; Monday, February 20, 03:00 a.m.;
- Studio Night (common broadcasting of all regional stations of the Czech Radio except Radio Regina, namely Czech Radio Plzen, North, Region - Central Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove, Pardubice, Region - Vysocina, Ostrava, Olomouc and Brno) - Thursday, February 16, 03:05 a.m.
Link: www.rozhlas.cz/planetarium
February 2012
Radio Programme: LIFE AND TRAVELS OF EMIL HOLUB (PART 1) - SEVEN YEARS IN AFRICA
Source: CZECH RADIO, Czech Radio - North, Programme: Planetarium, February 04, 2012, 05:45 p.m./Frederik Velinsky, Veronika Kindlova and Dr. Marie Imbrova
You can listen the whole performance of Dr. Marie Imbrova in the first part of the radio programme: "LIFE AND TRAVELS OF EMIL HOLUB - SEVEN YEARS IN AFRICA" here at www.rozhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).
The show will be broadcasted on the Czech Radio from February 04 to February 13, 2012 on the regional radio stations as follows:
- Czech Radio Region - Central Bohemia - Saturday, February 04, 06:04 a.m.; Thursday, February 09, 03:05 a.m.;
- Czech Radio North - Saturday, February 04, 05:10 p.m.; Thursday, February 09, 03:05 a.m.;
- Czech Radio Leonardo - Monday, February 06, 04:00 p.m.; Friday, February 10, 08:00 a.m.; Monday, February 13, 03:00 a.m.;
- Studio Night (common broadcasting of all regional stations of the Czech Radio except Radio Regina, namely Czech Radio Plzen, North, Region - Central Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove, Pardubice, Region - Vysocina, Ostrava, Olomouc and Brno) - Thursday, February 09, 03:05 a.m.
Link: www.rozhlas.cz/planetarium
February 2012
Article Title: IN ZIMBABWE, THEY HAVE A KINDERGARTEN THANKS TO MARIE FROM LOUNY REGION
Zdroj: BLESK.CZ, News - Events, February 04, 2012, 02:33 p.m./Jana Ulrichova
Marie Imbrova (52), from Cernochov in Louny Region, worked three and half years as a Consul, and then as a Chargé d'Affaires of the Czech Embassy in Zimbabwean Harare. Although she left the diplomacy, the links with Africa, especially with the unique Tengenenge community, she did not break. She founded a civic association to help the local children. Its activity, the members pay from their own pockets ...
You can find the entire Jana Ulrichova's article at www.blesk.cz (available in Czech language only).
February 2012
Article Title: EMIL HOLUB'S DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY
Source: CHRUDIMSKY ZPRAVODAJ - Chrudim Town Hall Monthly, Volume XV., No. 2, Page 8, February 01, 2012/Nadezda Gutzerova
This year we are commemorating two anniversaries of the Czech explorer Emil Holub, who was born on October 7, 1847 in Holice. Emil Holub made several expeditions to Africa, during which he gained valuable naturalistic and ethnographic material. During the third expedition he compiled the first map of the Victoria Falls and published their description in London. After returning from the last expedition, he managed to hold two large exhibitions, but the National Museum in Prague refused his African collections. So, he began to give them out to the different museums, scientific institutions and schools. Like many other Czechs he gained greater recognition abroad than at home. His contemporaries were blaming him that he lectured, even in the schools, that he gave out the collection items and that he published. He lectured of course even in Chrudim and in the surrounding area and in the collections of our Regional Museum there are objects from his African collections. He died at 55 years on February 21, 1902 in Vienna.
We will remember this significant traveler by a Sasa Ryvolova's lecture in the Vodni zdroje Chrudim on Friday, March 2. We will look to the places where the Holub's last African expedition ended. They will not miss the Victoria Falls, and his monument in Livingstone near these waterfalls. You will be able to buy also the postcard with the first map of Victoria Falls by Emil Holub which is published on the occasion of his anniversaries. Also, Marie Imbrova, an African studies expert dedicating to the research of his character already for 25 years, will remind Emil Holub in her lecture on April 3. As a diplomat during her work in Zimbabwe, she had merit in the establishment of Emil Holub's Monument in Livingstone.
Nadezda Gutzerova
Link: www.chrudim.eu
January 2012
Article Title: ROCKER BOUGHT A PAINTING
Source: OHRE MEDIA, Culture, January 27, 2012/Pavel Macak
Cernochov - In the autumn, we published a report on the auction of a painting by Zimbabwean author Lovemore Kambudzi Last Warning, which Marie Imbrova from Cernochov donated, completely free of charge, from her collection to the Africa Foundation in the U.S. The painting that could be seen in the autumn of the last year in the private Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice along with paintings of the other African artists in the comprehensive exhibition Born in Zimbabwe, was recently auctioned at the Sotheby's in New York, where Marie Imbrova sent it for the charity event Art for Africa. The new owner of the painting Last Warning is the current rock star and actor Dave Matthews, who auctioned it for 4 000 USD...
You can find the entire Pavel Macak's article at www.ohremedia.cz (available in Czech version only).
January 2012
Article Title: ROCKER BOUGHT A PAINTING
Source: PRESS - Louny Region Weekly, Volume 17, Number 3, Page 1, January 25, 2012/pa
Cernochov (pa) In the autumn, we published a report on the auction of a painting by Zimbabwean author Lovemore Kambudzi Last Warning, which Marie Imbrova from Cernochov donated, completely free of charge, from her collection to the Africa Foundation in the U.S. The painting that could be seen in the autumn of the last year in the private Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice along with paintings of the other African artists in the comprehensive exhibition Born in Zimbabwe, was recently auctioned at the Sotheby's in New York, where Marie Imbrova sent it for the charity event Art for Africa. The new owner of the painting Last Warning is the current rock star and actor Dave Matthews, who auctioned it for 4 000 USD. Last week, she received a letter from the U.S. with thanks from the organizers of this international event for the generous gift with which Marie Imbrova contributed to the aid to Africa. In addition to the gratitude, the letter also contains the information on which projects in the South Africa the obtained funds will be spent. They all relate to orphans and vulnerable children.
Lovemore Kambudzi: Last Warning
Dave Matthews, foto: blogs.seattleweekly.com
January 2012
Article Title: VERY RARE VISIT IN THE EMIL JULIS GALLERY IN CERNCICE
Source: SVOBODNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 21, Number 4, Page 9, January 25, 2012/jt
CERNCICE (jt) - Cerncice is a village in the vicinity and therefore in the shadow of a big neighbor, Louny. Nevertheless just Cerncice, the South Africa's Ambassador in Prague, Celia-Sandra Botha elected as a goal of her visit on January 16. In the former school, there is thanks to Pavel Vejrazka the Emil Julis Gallery and the exhibition of African art African Colours, which piqued the interest of Her Excellency.
A rare guest, Celia-Sandra Botha is extremely sympathetic and charming lady. She was born into a farm family in the Afrikaner Viljoenskroon and in this environment, she persuaded the farmers about the need to employ the black population. This was the year 1960 and she was 15 years old.
She also studied in New York and has the degree in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch. Her husband is a farmer, a former MP Andries Johannes Botha. They have together five children and it is almost unbelievable that she is already the quintuple grandmother. In the fight against racism, she was involved in the Black Wings' movement. As a fighter against apartheid, she became, in May 2007, as the first woman in the history of the South Africa, the opposition Democratic Alliance's Leader in the National Assembly. After the General Elections in 2009, she resigned from her post and entered into the diplomatic services. She also criticized the later government for which she earned a rebuke from the President Thabo Mbeki.
Into the Memorial Book of the Emil Julis Gallery, she wrote:
"Especially on a cold European day it is wonderful to see African Colours and African artists displayed so beautifully here. This is a special treat for me to see our continent shown at its best."
Sandra Botha, South African Ambassador, January 2012
Link: www.svobodnyhlas.cz
January 2012
Article Title: THANKS TO FRIENDS AND SPONSORS FROM LOUNY REGION
Source: SVOBODNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 21, Number 4, Page 6, January 18, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
The Tengenenge Friends Club, a civic association, aimed at supporting the children's education in this art community in Zimbabwe, entered the third year of its existence in our region, and quite successfully. Although it is a narrowly defined support of only child polulation of the unique community, very remote to our central European conditions, the actions of the Club have a fairly positive response, both in charity events, and lectures. In their course, the Club members meet with both individuals and representatives of organizations, to which is close the idea of the Club and the way in which are handed over in Tengenenge the specific gifts and nursery project implemented, and, in the future, maybe even school.
In this way, it established the cooperation with the Club the Kiwanis Club Luna Louny, which in the last quarter of last year together pioneered the idea of supporting Zimbabwean children in all benefit events organized by it and spoke to its donors. Thanks to the major financial support of Mrs. and Mr. Everet from Lipno, it sent then in the middle of this month to the account of the Tengenenge Friends Club the amount of CZK 55.000,--. This amount, together with other contributions, will be fully used to buy the school equipment and to support the further education of the children.
More information about the forms and the use of gifts can be found at www.tengenenge.cz
Thank you!
On behalf ofr the Tengenenge Friends Club
Dr. Marie Imbrova
Link: www.svobodnyhlas.cz
January 2012
Article Title: RARE VISIT...
Source: PRESS - Louny Region Weekly, Volume 17, Number 2, Page 1, January 18, 2012/Pavel Macak
The gallerist and antiquarian Pavel Vejrazka received on Monday, January 16 at his private Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice a rare visit. In a remarkable exhibition of African painters and sculptors, which can be seen under the name African Colours and is composed from not so far exhibited paintings and sculptures from the collections of Marie Imbrova and Ilona Bittnerova, expressed the interest the South African Embassy in the Czech Republic. The Ambassador of this African republic, Celia-Sandra Botha, looked at the entire exhibition with enthusiasm and she expressed her interest in some of the exhibited paintings. On the photo (left), she is in the middle together with Marie Imbrova and gallery owner Pavel Vejrazka.
January 2012
Article Title: AMBASSADOR IN CERNCICE
Source: SVOBODNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 21, Number 3, Page 1, January 18, 2012/jt
Ambassador in Cerncice ... The South African Ambassador in Prague, H.E. Mrs. Celia-Sandra Botha visited the Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice, where, currently, there is an exhibition of African art from the Marie Imbrova's collections. She also accompanied the Ambassador through the exhibition and introduced her the paintings, sculptures and their authors. The gallery owner Pavel Rudolf Vejrazka was quite surprised when the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa reported him by telephone the fact that Madam Ambassador found this exhibition and has shown her interest to see it. Marie Imbrova, as a former secretary of our Embassies in Kenya and later in Zimbabwe, is not only a collector, but also a supporter of the sculpture school in the Zimbabwean Tengenenge.
Link: www.svobodnyhlas.cz , www.vejr.cz/gej
January 2012
Article Title: HYPERINFLATION IN ZIMBABWE I.: The End of the Year 2007 -Mixed Expectations
Source: M & B - Journal about Coins, Banknotes and Medals, Volume 5, No. 1/2012, Pages 40 - 44, January 15, 2012/Dr. Marie Imbrova
November 2007 in Harare was warm and welcoming, as the weather is concerned. The Summer was coming and I realized that these Christmas we will be alone, i.e. we all - myself, my family and my friends in Harare, without the traditional home visits. One of the reasons why not to invite a visit just this year, in Zimbabwe, it was dismal regular supply of food and things of daily use and severe inflation, which has successfully made the beggars from the rest of the paid workforce in the country.
Personally, I had a decent foreign salary and I hoped even in the radical change after the elections, and inflation, I initially perceived only as a difficult element of my stay, with which you can live in planned way. It was a mistake. With the inflation in the long term, while also turns into the hyperinflation, it is not possible to live. It's a fight for an each quick exchange, immediate purchase and eventually you will finish at the end in the barter trade. But I still had no idea about it that November...
And today, even I recall that period with nostalgia, I learned a lot...
The entire first part of a six-part serial of HYPERINFLATION IN ZIMBABWE you can read here (available in Czech language only).
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