Festival Program – Meeting Brno

Wed 20.05.2026

19:00

Songs of Home and Distance

Thu 21.05.2026

18:00

Commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and a prayer on Platform 5

Fri 22.05.2026

14:00

Brno at One Table

Sat 23.05.2026

09:00

Reconciliation March

16:30

Rewrite History: Sudeten Germans for Beginners

Sudeten German Congress

Sun 24.05.2026

09:00

The Reconciliation Service

14:30

My Journey to Our Germans

Sudeten German Congress

discussion

Brno Exhibition Center, Pavilion P

The publication Moje cesta k našim Němcům (“My Journey to Our Germans”) presents personal reflections by prominent Czech authors on their former Sudeten German compatriots. The discussion will feature Jindřich Mann and Eva Lustigová, who will speak about her multilayered relationship with Germans in the context of her Jewish heritage, the Holocaust, and the present day.

The programme takes place as part of the Gathering of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft.

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16:30

Nicholas Winton: When Home Means Rescue

Sudeten German Congress

discussion

Brno Exhibition Center, Pavilion P

Nick Winton, together with two of the “Winton children” – Eva Paddock and Milena Grenfell-Baines – will offer testimony to a rescue that cannot be consigned to history. The meeting will also open a more difficult dimension: how to seek reconciliation where family stories, across generations, are shaped by the tension between guilt and injustice – and why collective labels are never a way out.

The programme takes place as part of the Gathering of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft.

MON 25.05.2026

A Commemorative Act for the Victims of 1939–1945

17:00

Where Is Home When the World Falls Apart?

TUE 26.05.2026

15:00

The Body: Home of the Soul

17:00

Brno as a German City

17:30

The Home Within

20:00

Arnošt Lustig: Dramatic Readings

Wed 27.05.2026

15:00

Where Do We Find That Quiet “Home”?

16:00

Roma Brno Today

17:30

The Roma Story

19:00

Segregation in Brno’s Schools?

19:00

Stopover

20:30

Amare lavutara

Thu 28.05.2026

15:00

When History Lives in Us

17:00

Why the Beneš Decrees Still Matter

18:30

Finding Home in the Sudetenland

18:30

Wanko: “…We’ve Always Been From Brno…”

18:30

Wanko: “…We’ve Always Been From Brno…”

Fri 29.05.2026

17:00

When Home Becomes a Chance

17:00

Forgotten Homes: Divišova District

18:00

When Home Is Missing

20:00

Agnes Tyrell

Sat 30.05.2026

11:00

Theatre Marathon Meeting Brno – Through the 20th Century

11:00

Benešovi in Brno

15:00

The Brno Trial

18:00

Stopover

20:00

Today We Divide It

Sun 31.05.2026

14:00

Brno’s Disappeared Cemeteries

15:00

Home Behind Bars

18:00

Stopover