DISBS05 Theatre Archive

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2025

The course is not taught in Autumn 2025

Extent and Intensity
0/2/7. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Iva Mikulová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 8 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/8, only registered: 0/8, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/8
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar is dealing with students' orientation in archives in CR, it's also building basic grasp about states of archives in Brno and it's cultivating ability of one's own heuristic research in archive materials.

Profiled seminar intended for second year students.
The seminar is held in Czech.
Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar student will be able to:
- identify regional and theartre archives in CR;
- work with file and archive service;
- search in archive materials;
- do heuristic background research;
- cite of archive material.
Syllabus
  • Overview of archive net: different types of archives
  • Regional, district and city archives; National museum, Memorial of National Literature, institutional archives, theatre archives
  • Archive and file service
  • Types of materials
  • Theatre archives in Brno: mapping of their current state - field research
  • Working on individual taks in Moravian Museum, Moravian State Archive, Brno city archive, archive of Center of experimental theatre, archive of Brno city theatre, eventually Memorial of National Literature
  • Moravian Museum - Theatre department, heuristic overview
  • Theatre archives online
Literature
    required literature
  • ČERNÝ, František. Metodologie výzkumu dějin divadla. 1. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1982, 135 s. URL info
  • Metodologické otázky výzkumu českého divadla. Edited by Bořivoj Srba. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu ČSAV, 1970, 246 s. info
    recommended literature
  • MIKULOVÁ, Iva. Divadelní režisér Karel Novák (1916–1968) (Karel Novák, Theatre Director (1916–1968)). Vydání první. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 314 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity ; 471. ISBN 978-80-210-8777-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8778-2017. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • MIKULOVÁ, Iva and Marcel SLADKOWSKI. Městské divadlo Zlín : 70 sezon (Municipal Theatre in Zlín : 70 seasons). Vydání první. Zlín: Městské divadlo, 2015, 245 pp. ISBN 978-80-260-8778-6. info
  • O divadle na Moravě a ve Slezsku II. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2004.
  • Štefanides, Jiří. O divadle 2008. Olomouc: Universita Palackého v Olomouci, 2009.
  • ŠTOURAČOVÁ, Jiřina. Archivnictví. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 192 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6511-6. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • ŠTOURAČOVÁ, Jiřina. Úvod do archivnictví. Brno: Vydavatelství MU, 1999, 139 pp. ISBN 80-210-2216-7. info
Teaching methods
discussion, visits of archives, material research
Assessment methods
Submitting tasks, project presentation. Pass-fail line is 70%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
General note: staré prerekvizity DVBP04 || DVB007 || DVBZ001 || DSB008.
Teacher's information
http://divadlo.phil.muni.cz/
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