Aby po nás něco zůstalo: Zpověď novodobých zámeckých pánů – Novotná Anna (2021)

With a foreword by Constantin Kinský and Karel Schwarzenberg, "The Castle Will Educate You! It Will Make You a Completely Different Person." Jiří Češka, Zbenice "It's like in life, you have periods when you're up or when you're down, and you say to yourself: Here stands a building into which I've poured so much that I only have a ten-crown coin in my pocket and I can't afford to buy my son something for kindergarten. It's like being on a swing." Pavel Kuře, Martinice How about getting a castle? This book presents a remarkable portrait of fifteen quirky personalities – modern "lords of the castle" – who found enough courage, desire, and adventurous spirit within themselves to buy a castle. More precisely, mostly just its ruin. From that moment on, they dedicate all their time, money, and physical strength to realizing their dream. Often, they even sacrifice personal relationships for the castle. All of this under a single common denominator: So that something remains after us. The interviews and photographic portraits by the Czech-German photographer and journalist Kateřina Sýsová and the writer, editor, and journalist Anna Novotná were created over several years. Their expert advisor was art historian Monika Švec Sybolová.