Přítomnost

[1] It was able to come into existence thanks to T. G. Masaryk (first Czechoslovakia's President), who at the time was financially supporting young journalist Ferdinand Peroutka.

A large number of democratically minded authors such as Karel Čapek, Milena Jesenská, Eduard Bass, Karel Poláček, Richard Wiener, Václav Černý, Otokar Fischer contributed to Přítomnost.

A number of young Czech intellectuals in exile tried to publish the magazine in its former incarnation and named it Skutečnost.

Amongst the contributors to this magazine were Pavel Tigrid, Jaroslav Stránský, Meda Mládková and Ferdinand Peroutka.

He was followed in this role by Petr Pithart, Jan Sokol, Tomáš Vrba, and Libuše Koubská.