The aim of the course is to help students understandthe specific area of German-written literature thatis a part of cultural history of our country. German-Austrian-Czech cultural and literary relationships should be understoodas a part of common
Middle-European history. The content of the course: German-written literaturein Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Neoromanticism and the Prague myth. Main representatives(F. Adler, H. Salus, P. Leppin, G. Meyrink, R. M.Rilke,
L. Perutz and others). World War I. The originof the CSR. M. Brod as the organiser of the "expressionist" generation.
Representaives: F. Kafka, O. Baum, P.Kornfeld, F. Werfel, L. Winder, W. Haas and others. Socialists (E. E. Kisch, F. C.
Weiskopf, R. Fuchs and others). Moravian authors (H. Ungar, E. Weiss). The youngest generation (J. Urzidil, H. Grab). The last woman author of the Prague-German literary tradition: Lenka Reinerová. The content of the course: Interpretation of selected works (e. g. Rilke, Meyrink, Kafka, Werfel, Kisch, Winder, Urzidil, Reinerová and others).