Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.
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Václav Havel was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote more than 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally.
Havel was voted 4th in Prospect magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He was the founder of the VIZE 97 Foundation and the principal organizer of the Forum 2000 annual global conference.
Havel was one of the signatories of the Charter 77 manifesto, a founding signatory, together with Joachim Gauck, of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (launching the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism), and a council member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Havel received many recognitions, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. The 2012–2013 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. (Wikipedia, 2012)
Václav Havel has been our inspiration and our role model. Apart from other things, we want to remember him for his ability not to take himself too seriously. We would, therefore, like to commemorate the first anniversary of his passing with a smile – by rolling up the pants we would like to remind his memorable start of presidential career in “short trousers”. The story is that when he first came into office as president, he was wearing pants that were shorter than the social habit. It was such a faux pas. Therefore, in his honour, some Czech people had pant legs rolled up. Maybe you could see someone in Sweden.
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If you want to know more about Václav Havel go to Wikipedia. About the special day of short trousers go to http://www.denvaclavahavla.cz/?lang=en
To cache:
On the initial coordinates of the cache you will not find it. However, there you will find Czech consulate and the Czech Center where they sometimes carried out interesting events for the public.
To find the cache, you will need to find some informations which are always relate to Vaclav Havel. It's not difficult, you just need to look closely good :) All names are in Czech!
1) Exact date (DD.MM.YYYY), when was the Stockholm premiere of the latest film, which he directed. Add up each number to two digits (D+D+M+M+Y+Y+Y+Y =) A
2) The number of letters in his mother's maiden surname = B
3) Year, when he wrote his first theater play (one-act). Add up each number to two digits (Y+Y+Y+Y =) C Small help: it is not The Garden Party (Zahradní slavnost). Internet may give two answers, use the first year.
4) The number of letters in the title (Z) and the exact date (DD.MM.YYYY, add up each number to two digits D+D+M+M+Y+Y+Y+Y =) E of drama that was played in Stockholm's Stadsteater (small help, it was in 80's, and if you find two almost identical answers use the later date). The name of drama in English is Mistake, but you need Czech name. D = Z-1
5) Year, when Koutecký began filming a documentary about Vaclav Havel and the year of its premiere (you need two years! and beware of multiple answers on Internet). Add up each number to two digits (Y+Y+Y+Y+Y+Y+Y+Y) = F
Final coordinates are then:
N 59°20.XXX
E 018°04.YYY
XXX = (E * F) - 2 * (A * D + B + C)
YYY = (A + B + C + D + E + F) * 7 + (B * D)
In cache is small pencil, but take your for sure.
If you have a question or you need some clear, just write me (Memme) a message rather than post it here.
Content: logbook, pencil and coin for FTF
GOOD LUCK!