A voice of defiance and hope. Singer Kubišová is a new honorary citizen of Prague
Prague has new honorary citizens. On Monday, they became singer Marta Kubišová, violinist Václav Hudeček and announcer Dagmar Hazdrová. Silver medals were awarded in memorian to physicians Jitka Abrahámová and Milena Černá.
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Granting of honorary citizenship to Marta Kubišová.
| Photo: Twitter / Zdeněk Hřib
“You were not afraid to stand behind what you believe in, even though it cost you a lot of personal sacrifices for a long time,” wrote Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) on his Twitter to grant Marta Kubišová an honorary citizenship. a voice for a voice of defiance and hope during the occupation of 1968 and in times of normalization. “Even then, you were not afraid of communist bullying and you were one of the first to sign Charter 77. You were even a spokesman for the Charter, which required great courage,” Hřib added.
Thanks to these strong moral attitudes, your Prayer for Martha then became a song of regained freedom during the Velvet Revolution. You can’t forget how you dealt with abandoned animals for a long time.
You really deserve today’s award for all this!
– Zdenek Hrib (@ZdenekHrib) June 6, 2022
The beginnings of Kubišová’s singing career are connected with performing at the Rococo Theater. One of the first hits is the originally French song Loudá se crescent. In Rokok, she met Václav Neckář and Helena Vondráčková, with whom she formed the Golden Kids trio. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops, her song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of resistance against the occupation. She had been banned from performing since February 1970 and the regime also prevented her from finding employment. She signed Charter 77 and became one of her spokespersons.
Kubišová also became one of the faces of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, when she sang the Prayer for Marta to the crowded Wenceslas Square. After the revolution, she returned to the podium. She ended her career about five years ago. Kubišová is also the holder of the Medal of Merit II. degree, Honorary Medal of TG Masaryk, St. Wenceslas Decoration or the French Order of the Legion of Honor.
Award for virtuoso Hudeček
The 69-year-old violin virtuoso Hudeček received an award for his contribution to the spread of Czech musical art and the reputation of the capital in the world. In 1967 he won the Concertino Praga competition for young artists and at the age of fifteen he performed at a concert in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In his career he was also a soloist with the Czechoslovak Philharmonic. He was also at the birth of the Music Holidays festival in Prague.
The city management also decided to award a silver medal to Doctor Černá for extraordinary merits in the social and health field. Among other things, Černá worked at the Department of Dermatovenerology of the General University Hospital (VFN) as a secondary school and also lectured at the Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University. She was a signatory to Charter 77 and a member of the Board of the Goodwill Committee-Olga Havel Foundation.
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Jitka Abrahámová was awarded a silver medal as a special show of respect and appreciation for important citizens whose work and work in the field of medicine is associated with the capital city of Prague.
Prague values its important inhabitants in several ways. The highest personal award given to the capital is honorary citizenship. Since 1990, the metropolis has awarded it to Jaroslav Foglar, Zdeněk Svěrák, Jiří Bělohlávek, Jiří Suchý, Dana Zátopková and Miloš Forman, among others.