The celebration of The Wallachian Year held in 1925 significantly influenced the development of folklore movement in the ethnographic region of Moravian Wallachia. This event inspired Arnošt Kubeša to promote traditional folk music and dances as part of his teaching career. For this purpose he founded with his students the first Wallachian Circle in the mid-1930s, he organised its public performances (as well as the first foreign tour of this kind of an ensemble) and continued to found other circles in the end. After his involuntary retirement from the education system due to his "political and ideological unreliability" and his withdrawal from the leading positions in folklore movement associations, Arnošt Kubeša started a new career as a museum employee. This study refers to his activities which contributed to the development of folklore in its second existence.
The study deals with the German-language (Sudeten German) ethnography in the Czech lands, exemplifying it with an analysis and contextualization of a selected hand-written source concerning annual customs in Moravian Wallachia (Walter Repper: Das Kirchenjahr und seine Feste bei den mährischen Walachen). In his
text, the author points out the parallelism in the development of Czech-language and German-language ethnographic research in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This research showed only rare
overlaps and contacts between ethnically defined societies. However, the 1930s saw an increasing interest of German researchers in the culture of Slavic inhabitants of the Czech lands.
This trend was based on the concept of “tribal¨ethnography” (stammheitliche Volkskunde) and it was consummated by the establishment of an independent department at German University in Prague, which focused on tribal history and ethnography of
Moravia (Lehrstuhl für Volkskunde und Stammesgeschichte Mährens). It is in the context of this Sudeten German ethnography´s orientation that Walter Repper´s manuscript about customs and
habits in Moravian Wallachia is analysed. The manuscript is dated
to 1939. The author of it studied at German University in Prague at
the turn of the1940s, and he wrote the work most probably as part of a students practical training. The content of the manuscript is
compared with earlier published works about customary culture of
Wallachia, and subsequently particular sources of inspiration are
identified. The author of the study tries to highlight to which degree
the focus of Repper´s work corresponds to the application of the “tribal ethnography” concept.
Der unikate Sicherheitkorps der Landesportatschen entstand in Ostmähren am Ende der 30jährigen Krieges, ale diese Gebiet von Kriminalelementen gefährlich geplagt wurde. Zu seiner definitiven Auflösung kam es im Jahre 1830, als er als ganz der Kontrolle der mährichen Stände unterstehende Institution des Zusammenpralls zwischen dem Ständestaat und der zentralen Staatsmacht wurde.
Die fast zwei Jahhunderte lange Tätigkeit dieses Korps hinterließ ausdrucksvolle Spuren im Bewußtsein und der Tradition des Volkes. Die größte Aufmerksamkeit wurde gewidmet der Familie Křenek, die den Sicherheitskorps zum großen Ruhm brachte, und der Gemeinde Valašská Bystřice (Walachisch Bystritz), Kreis Vsetín (Wsetin), die - allerdings falsch - für ein typisches Portatschendorf gehalten wurde. Den Höhepunkt der Wiederbelebung der Portatschen Tradition, die allerdings am meisten vom großen Interesse der volks- und heimatkundlichen Forscher seit der zweien Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts unterstützt wurde, bildete ein großes Fest in Valašská Bystřice im Jahre 1931.
Da das Portatschenvermächtnis im Bewußtsein der hiesigen Bewohner mehr von äußerem Interesse unterstützt wurde als vom natürlichen Überleben der Tradition, kam es zu seinem relativ schnellen Ableben während der letzten 60 Jahre.