Luděk Navara

Luděk Navara
Luděk Navara in 2016
Born (1964-04-26) April 26, 1964
OccupationsNon-fiction author, publicist, historian
EmployerMladá fronta DNES
Known forCoverage of crimes of Communism and Nazism; research on the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia; co-founder of the Civic Association Memory

Luděk Navara (born 26 April 1964) is a Czech non-fiction author, publicist, and historian.

Biography

Navara was born on 26 April 1964 in Brno. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Brno University of Technology and later studied history at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. Since 1995, he has worked as an editor at the newspaper MF Dnes. He has also cooperated with Czech Television in Brno.

His journalistic and historical work primarily focuses on the crimes of Communism and Nazism, as well as the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. In 2009, together with Miroslav Kasáček, he co-founded the Civic Association Memory (Paměť), which documents communist totalitarianism in the Czech Republic, particularly in the South Moravian Region.

The association initiated the establishment of the Freedom Trail and the Iron Curtain Gate to Freedom Memorial near Mikulov.[1][2]

Bibliography

Books

  • Smrt si říká Tutter
  • Příběhy železné opony
  • Příběhy železné opony 2

Television documentaries

  • A průvod Němců šel
  • Odsunutý odsun
  • Útěky železnou oponou

References

  1. ^ "Ing. Luděk Navara" (in Czech). City of Brno. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
  2. ^ "Luděk Navara" (in Czech). Sdružení Paměť z.s. Retrieved 2024-02-16.