We ran a brief survey about what Czechs think learners of Czech should know about Czech cultural phenomena of the last 20 years and what they think will still be around for a while. Here are the key results from over 100 respondents.
Zorganizovali jsme krátkou online anketu o tom, co by podle Čechů měli vědět o české kultuře cizinci i Češi žijící v zahraničí. Zde je shrnutí výsledků od 100 respondentů. Zmíněny jsou všichni, kdo dostali alespoň dva hlasy.
Klus received 19 out of 102 votes as a notable person vs 12 for Vojtěch Dyk in the second place. 12 people thought Klus would be well known in 30 years vs 7 for Dyk. Only two more people had more than 2 votes for longevity of the total of 15 who had at least one mention. A total of 35 had at least 2 votes for notability.
Public statues of Czech sculptor David Černý received 8 mentions with most of those who gave an example mentioning Kafka's head. There were a total of 24 cultural artefacts that received at least 2 votes.
📎 Breakdown: Aside from the complere gallery of 36 who received more than 2 votes (adding up to 144 votes).
You can also view the galleries of most popular occupations: Actors (12 - 60 votes) Women (9 - 32 votes), Singer Song Writers (8 - 52 votes), Writers (8 - 23 votes) and Musical Groups (5 - 15 votes). There was only one YouTuber (so far). This shows a lot of continuity with the types of people who were promiment historically.
⚠Notable facts: 6 out of 8 notable writers are women and 6 out of 9 notable women are writers..
Only 5 people were born after 1990, 13 in the 1980s and 12 between 1960 and 1979. The median year of birth is 1982.
Not all the same people who deserve note were mentioned as someone who has lasting value. You can see the comparison of notability and longevity in a separate table.
Gallery of Notable Czechs of the 2000s
Out of 24 artefacts that received at least 2 votes, there were 13 films with a total of 39 votes, 5 TV series with a total of 20 votes, 2 songs with 5 joint votes, 1 Book with 3 votes and 1 cultural event with 7 votes and 1 body of a sculptor's work with 8 votes. All these add up to 80 votes.
It is interesting that 7 of these have appeared in the last 2 years (since 2019) of which 2 were in 2020 and 1 in 2021.
These 7 received a total of 27 votes (median 3.5) which is more than a third of the total vote. 4 of those were in the top 10 (3, 6, 7, 8). This does not include 3 more in the top 10 that started over 10 years ago but still continue (1 festival and 2 TV shows).
Notable Czech cultural artefacts
12 people were mentioned who do not qualify because they were well know prior to the year 2000. Most of those mentions came in the Longevity rather than Notability column.
When counting total mentions Tomáš Klus received 33 followed by Vojta Dyk with 20. However, the Dyk is tied for second place with Karel Gott who was excluded from the list because he is not somebody who became well known after 2020.
This includes even when used to describe people who were mentioned only once:
Regardless whether the specific title was mentioned once or more in total.
We only asked our respondents about the decade they were born in. 110 gave us a response.
Vast majority of the people responding were born between 1975 and 1994 (84). Nobody was born after 2004 (which may explain the lack of YouTubers in our survey but also may give hope to Kovy for being known to people most of whom were born much later than he). Here's the decade breakdown:
Respondent breakdown.
.jpg){kind=link}