Šumavští rodáci vzpomínají 3 - Příběhy z bouřlivých válečných i poválečných let – group of authors (2018)

About what Šumava was like in the days of their childhood and youth, its natives reminisce. Each story is like a stone in the mosaic of the image of Šumava before the war, during the war, and after the war. Eduard Steun, in his contribution "The Rise and Fall of the Steindl Cottage (At Matesa)," writes that as a boy, this hunting lodge reminded him of a fairy tale cottage. Today, only a huge chimney with a smokehouse overgrown with bushes remains in the meadow. Karel Větrovec continues to write his life story, supplemented with interesting facts from the chronicle of Kašperské Hory, which he has been writing as a chronicler for years. Karel Ešner, as a little boy in the early sixties, quietly participated in the regular gatherings of old gentlemen, including his grandfather, who reminisced about their youth and, among other things, how rafts used to float down the Otava River. Ivana Šafránková, the daughter of the renowned Šumava conductor Karel Polata, contributed a memory of her father's musical beginnings and his meeting with the later famous Rudolf Firkušný. You will surely be intrigued by the unique reminiscences of Jan Kopp and the stories not only about life in the Roklanská hunting lodge from Erika Zemanová.