Funeral route 1

1 sound

Gutta's funeral went with the roads: Štěpánská, Žitná, Mezibranská and Jungmannovu, which today is called Vinohradská. Gutta’s coffin was followed by carriages with members of the Amazons of Dahomey troupe; the impresario and his wife, a restaurateur from the island. People lined the streets. All the traffic stopped. It is hard to imagine that today. All of these streets are very busy, the noise is hard to bear.

Sound by Marcin Dymiter


Part of this walk

GUTTA (english version)

GUTTA (english version)

Praha
It is a multi-layered project centered on the person of "Amazon Gutta", a woman from the Yoruba people, performing with the group of "Amazons of Dahomey", which in September 1892, arrived in Prague. Gutta contracted pneumonia or typhoid fever here, and died after a few days. Her solemn funeral was a big spectacle, which took place on September 21, 1892 and was widely reported by press around the world. She was buried then in the Olšany cemetery. Two years later, her remains were excavated by Jindřich Matiegka and placed in the university collection, from where they found their way to the Hrdlicka Museum of Man, where they remain to this day. The Gutta walk goes by the steps of her presence in the town and of the funeral revealing some possible facts of her life and bringing it back to contemporary Prague. Idea & screenplay – Ludomir Franczak www.lfranczak.pl Music – Marcin Dymiter www.emiter.org Texts: Ariela Azoulay, Ludomir Franczak, Filip Herza, Sára Märc, Thabo Mbeki Voices: Sára Arnstein, Petr Dlouhý, Ludomir Franczak, Sára Märc Project team: Zuzanna Berendt, Petr Dlouhý, Marcin Dymiter, Ludomir Franczak, Agáta Hrnčířová, Anna Majewska, Sára Märc, Ida Ślęzak With the help of: Johanna Berg, Dominika Czarnecka, Filip Herza, Clemens Radauer (humanzoo.net), Louise Steinman Project partners: Cross Attic/Praha, Studio ALTA/Praha, Pracownia Kuratorska/Cracow Project created within the VARP PA program financed by Visegrad Fund
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