“Getting to know Prague was easy. One quickly feels familiar, discovers the city during beautiful walks, shares a common history and culture”. The words of Sonja Griegoschewski, a Berlin native and current director of the Goethe-Institut in Prague, who is also in charge of the other eight branches in the Central Europe region, set the tone for the current Czech-German Bookmag N&N, Issue 6, Summer/Autumn 2024.

An entertaining and inspiring read, the sixth issue of the magazine, exceptional in text and graphics, features stories of interesting personalities from the Czech Republic and Germany.

Among them are Francesca Kolowrat, a businesswoman and successor of a famous noble family, and Míla Fürstová, an award-winning Czech painter and graphic artist.

German MP Jörg Nürnberger, who travels to Bundestag meetings by train from his home in Prague. The second is the Minister for Regional Development, Ivan Bartoš, who focuses on digitalisation, climate change and Tik Tok.

Czech-German Bookmag N&N is published twice a year in Prague and Berlin. It is intended for Czechs who are interested in Germans, as well as for Germans with a relationship to Czechs. In its bilingual pages, readers from both countries can rediscover the intertwined Czech-German relations, past and present, through engaging personal stories.

About the publisher

Black Swan Media publishes a publication combining the attributes of a book and a magazine – a so-called book magazine called N&N Czech-German Bookmag.

The new issues will appear on the shelves of bookstores such as Luxor, Kanzelsberger and Dobrovsky in 2024 on 10 June and 25 November.

Bilingual N&N targets thoughtful, cosmopolitan readers who know that Czech-German relations have been, are, and will be crucial. Topics range from politics to design, from business to gourmet.

The publisher of the magazine is Danuše Siering, who has been developing the concept of the Czech-German publishing house Black Swan Media at Dom Černá labuť in Na Poříčí Street since 2015. She organizes the Czech-German Salon in Berlin and Prague, which follows the tradition of the salons where Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka went.

N&N is published in 2000 copies. The editor is Jan Müller and Lucie Pantazopoulou Drahoňovská, the author of the graphic design is Michaela Zajíčková, among the authors you will find experienced journalists such as Anastázie Harris, David Horák, Barbora Vojtová and others.