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The Waterman -
or the Difficulty to Drop Anchor
a non-fiction in progress
Subject: Czech Republic, its landscape and how
its watercirculation influence the neighboring countries.
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The Czech Republic will become member of the European
Union in 2004. One reason more to point out the peculiarity of this
country and its landscape: its springs and water recourses feed big
streams in Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary. In the Czech Republic
the water-circulation and its alteration through time, social change
and ecological gearing have far-reaching consequences; many are remembering
the flood from 1997; the largest part of the small country - mostly
in the east - was under water; subsequent flood-disasters on Oder,
Elbe and Danube - therefore in Germany, Poland and Hungary - especially
in 2002 with catastrophically floods and incredible damages.
Are these modern flood-disasters consequences of ecological gearing
and challenges or was it raining too much in the last years? What
is the characteristic of the biotopes and meadows of Moldavia, Elbe,
Morava or Oder? And why does in this small country without any connection
to the sea exists so many legends and myths about watermen, Naiads
and water sprites?
Against this background we travel with Antonin Mares to his Czech
homeland, to Bohemia and Moravia. Antonin Mares, author and translator,
lives today in Munich. 1968 with the age of 16 he left his homeland
after the Russian invasion; as emigrant he feels not only in relation
of his astrological sign as Aquarius; he sees his life as pending,
flowing and in transit.-
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December 2003 |
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updated
March 2004
