Odhalená plzeňská tajemství – Růžička David (2019)

Publicist David Růžička focuses in his texts on little-known or forgotten events and interesting facts related to the history of the city of Plzeň. Often, these are stories that we can boldly claim have been unjustly overlooked. Sometimes, it is possible to literally pull some secrets from the depths of oblivion. This is the case with the figurine of the little angel from Košutecké Lake, which turned out to be something quite different than expected. Or the opera diva Ella Noëmi Koppová, professionally associated with the Plzeň Grand Theatre. Who today knows that she was the first to sing the role of Madame Butterfly in Czech? At the beginning of the 20th century, her singing thrilled not only the Plzeň audience. Everyone knows Foglar's Rychlé šípy. But how did they influence the author of the comic series about the boyish gang of Guardians, whose stories young readers devoured on the back of the ABC magazine in the second half of the last century, without realizing that almost everything took place against the backdrop of Plzeň? The character of the grinder Karhan, a key figure in the once-popular building film, also came from the regional capital of West Bohemia. And conversely, what secrets do the nativity scenes from Plzeň's churches hide? Just open the book and uncover everything with its author.