On Sunday, September 24, 2017, the final concert of the 26^th International Music Festival Young Prague was held at the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, with the participation of chairperson of the Kolowrátek Endowment Fund board of directors, Mrs. JUDr. Dominika Kolowrat-Krakowska and Mgr. Eliška Barthelemy, member of the Kolowrátek Endowment Fund board.

On Monday, September 18, 2017, as part of the International Music Festival Young Prague and with the support of the Kolowrat-Krakowsky family and patronage of the Kolowrátek Endowment Fund, a classical music concert took place at the Kolowrat Theater. Czech pianist Václav Mácha, Slovak flute player Katarina Slavkovska and German pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg performed classical music masterpieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacques Iber and Theobald Boehm.

The Upper Palatine Forest was recently featured on Czech TV during the 3rd season of a successful documentary series about exceptional places in protected areas of the Czech Republic, directed by Petra Všelichová and hosted by Miroslav Vladyka. For almost 350 years, the house of Kolowrat has been closely connected to the area surrounding the Přimda Castle in the Upper Palatine Forest. Apart from the Nazi and communist eras, the Krakowskýs of Kolowrat have been the proprietors of the Upper Palatine Forest estates and built two Baroque mansions there. Specifically, the Velké Dvorce Castle and the Hunting Lodge Diana.

The International Music Festival Mladá Praha – Young Prague and the Endowment Fund Kolowrátek are pleased to invite you to a concert of classical music that is taking place on September 18th, 2017 at 7PM at the Kolowrat Theatre, in the Kolowrat Palace, 6 Ovocný trh, Prague 1.

A sale exhibition entitled Kodl Contemporary Summer Art Salon is being held at the KODL Gallery on Národní třída No. 7, Prague 1, from June 21, 2017 until September 15, 2017. The mission of the Summer Art Salon is to present the works of award– winning young and middle generation artists, whose painting is the dominant form of artistic expression, to a wider audience. Ondrej Basjuk, Josef Bolf, Martin Krajc, Pavla Malinova, Jakub Spanhel, Adam Štech and Lubomir Typlt have been showing and selling their works.

On Saturday, June 17, 2017, the 17^th annual International Sascha Kolowrat Ride was held. Sascha Kolowrat was an auto and motorcycle racer, aviator, film producer, cinematographer, director and a leading personality in Austrian cinematography.

On Saturday June 17^th, the XVII annual Sascha Kolowrat Ride will be held in Přimd u Tachova. Sascha Kolowrat was an auto and motorcycle racer, aviator, film producer, cinematographer, director and a leading personality in Austrian cinematography.

In 2001, director Vít Olmer made the documentary "People with a Coat of Arms". The film deals with the fates of the Czech nobility, how they are doing today, and how they are dealing with their newly recovered property.

1^st part: House of Kolowrat – 26. 1. 2017, at 21:35 on CT2.

The new documentary cycle ‘Blue Blood’ is an excursion into the world of Czech nobility. This Czech television series will present eight important Czech noble families, including their youngest generation, as proud upholders of family history. The documentary also recalls these aristocratic families as an important part of Czech history and how the estates in their care are a crucial part of Czech cultural heritage. Our well-informed guide and presenter is Count František Kinský.

This year marks the 120^th anniversary of the birth of Jindřich Wilhelm, count Kolowrat-Krakowsky (27. 7. 1897 – 19. 1. 1996), a true patriot, visionary and progressive political economist, generous patron of the arts and rebuilder of the restituted Family Estate.

Don’t look for a hidden meaning of anything magical in the name, [which reminds Czechs of the magical sniping wheel of fairy-tales]. Kolowratek is just a play on the Family name.

30. November 2016 saw the gala opening night of a unique exhibition called ‘To the Movies! 2’ with the tagline ‘on the move’. An exhibition whose overall conception surpasses old-fashioned stereotypes and pushes the boundaries of this type of art a little further out. Visitors were able to try out all the exhibits for themselves and thus get immersed in the magical world of cinema. Invited guests from among the representatives of the cultural sphere, exhibition partners, the media and friends of film had the unparalleled opportunity to try out the newly installed exhibits during the gala evening. Among the guests were e.g. the Dean of the Arts Faculty of Charles University, assistant professor Mirjam Friedová, Ph.D., the film director Helena Třeštíková or the scenographer and animator Jiří Kubíček, co-founder of Prague’s FAMU film academy.

The Kolowratek Endowment Fund has for many years supported the Children’s Home in Tachov. The traditional St. Nicholas party was held on this occasion in the Kolowrat Palace in Prague.

On the origins and traditions, duties and pleasures.

Interview

On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of the movie mogul and automobile racer Alexander “Sascha”, Count Kolowrat-Krakowsky, the Kolowrat-Krakowsky Family hosted a screening of three silent movies with live musical accompaniment. This met with great acclaim from the audience.