Pestrý týden

Pestrý týden was a Czech illustrated weekly magazine published from 2 November 1926 to 28 April 1945, during the First and Second Czechoslovak Republics and during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

The editorial circle in the first years consisted of: journalist Milena Jesenská,[5] graphic artist Vratislav Hugo Brunner, painter, poet and founding member of Devětsil Adolf Hoffmeister, and publisher Karel Neubert.

At the end of the 1920s, this editorial office was replaced by a group around Jaromír Johna, under whom it was transformed from an élite revue into a pictorial family weekly for the middle classes.

Pestrý týden's peak years were 1938–1939 during which its "flawless gravure printing, as well as comprehensive articles and columns from home and abroad"[6] made it qualitatively the equal of contemporaneous world weekly picture magazines.

[8] From 1940, Pestrý týden was the official organ of Radosti ze života ('Joy of Life'), the sole socio-political movement in the Protectorate, National Partnership.