Abstract
The author deals with the limits of freedom of speech in the case of public persons on a particular case of a German satirist insulting the Turkish President. The aim of this article is to acquaint the reader, based on this particular case, with German legislation on verbal criminal offences against authorities of foreign countries, compare it with the Czech legislation and-with reference to the case of the Czech Constitutional Court, the Federal Constitutional Court, the U.S.
Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights-show the limits of freedom of speech in the case of public persons. The author himself admits that finding limits of freedom of speech is difficult.
However, he concludes that absolutization of freedom of speech is not the way the Czech Republic should be heading. The American concept of freedom of speech is a result of too much emphasis on the political dimension of freedom of speech, which leads to the fact that protection of hypothetical political expression is supreme to the protection of non-political personal dignity, which has been actually damaged.