page_title: Friday Men
hierarchical_section_title: Friday Men
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Dům bratří Čapků, Bratří Čapků 1853/28, Praha 10-Vinohrady. English: Prague 10-Vinohrady, Bratří Čapků street, house of Karel and Josef Čapek. This is a photo of a cultural monument of the Czech Republic,number: 40763/1-1669.Památkový&#160;katalogMIS hledat obrázky hledat seznamyWikidata
context_page_description: The Friday Men were a Czech intellectual and political circle that met in the garden of Karel Čapek's Prague house on Friday afternoons from 1921 till Čapek's death in 1938. The group also sometimes met in Café Slavia.
  A cartoon by Adolf Hoffmeister shows in the first row Ferdinand Peroutka, Jan Blahoslav Kozák, editor of the Prager Presse Arne Laurin, then in the second row: Karl Kraus, František Langer, Karel Čapek, theatre critic Josef Kodíček, Josef Macek, and then in the third row Josef Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, Karel Poláček, and finally in the fourth row journalist František Kubka, Josef Kopta, Dr. L. Procházka, Vilem Mathesius, and historian Josef Šusta. No women attended.
  Čapek's wife Olga Scheinpflugová attempted to revive the meetings after World War II. Among post-war participants were Hugo Haas, Jaroslav Seifert, František Langer and Vlado Clementis.
context_section_description: The Friday Men (Czech: Pátečníci, German: Die Freitagsrunde) were a Czech intellectual and political circle that met in the garden of Karel Čapek's Prague house on Friday afternoons from 1921 till Čapek's death in 1938. The group also sometimes met in Café Slavia.
  A cartoon by Adolf Hoffmeister shows in the first row Ferdinand Peroutka, Jan Blahoslav Kozák, editor of the Prager Presse Arne Laurin, then in the second row: Karl Kraus, František Langer, Karel Čapek, theatre critic Josef Kodíček, Josef Macek, and then in the third row Josef Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, Karel Poláček, and finally in the fourth row journalist František Kubka, Josef Kopta, Dr. L. Procházka, Vilem Mathesius, and historian Josef Šusta. No women attended.
  Čapek's wife Olga Scheinpflugová attempted to revive the meetings after World War II. Among post-war participants were Hugo Haas, Jaroslav Seifert, František Langer and Vlado Clementis.
caption: The meetings were held in the house of Čapek brothers in Prague 10, Vinohrady.
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