Noble Notes
Slow and deep bookmag with editorial offices in Prague, Berlin and London.
Summer & Autumn 2025
Content
Noble Notes features a selection of notable European personalities: we sat down with Magda Vášáryová, a significant figure in Czech-Slovak cultural and political life, as well as with Martina Barta, a Czech jazz singer based in Berlin, who spoke with the phenomenal German trumpeter Till Brönner. On the other pages, you will meet the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Denise Quistorp, top Norwegian conductor with Czech roots, Stefan Veselka, Czech-German coach and essayist, Jan Bílý, and renowned Japanese artist, Chiharu Shiota, who is based in Berlin and recently presented her first exhibition in Prague.
Noble Notes Bookmag – available in three countries
Czech Republic
N&N is available in all leading bookstores for 370 CZK
and at the reception in the Black Swan House for 370 CZK.
Albatros Media for 315 CZK plus postage.
Germany
In Berlin, N&N is available in all leading bookstores for 15 Euro.
Order and shipping: 📧 Nicolaische Buchhandlung for 15 Euro plus postage.
Slovakia
In Slovakia you can buy N&N at Brot Books for 15 Euro.
About the publisher
Black Swan Media publishing house issues a publication combining the attributes of a book,
a magazine, a diary and a letter – N&N Noble Notes.
The publisher of Noble Notes is Danuše Siering, who has been developing the concept of Czech-German publishing house Black Swan Media in Dům Černá Labuť on Na Poříčí since 2015. She organises the Czech-German Salon in Berlin and Prague, continuing a tradition of salons that Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka among others attended.
N&N is published in 1000 copies. Editor Jan Müller, Deputy Editor Lucie Pantazopoulou Drahoňovská, Art Director Michaela Zajíčková, Staff Writers Barbora Vojtová and Anastázie Harris. Editorial board: Jan Horák and Marcela von Kayser.
