Annotation
The aim of the course is to help students to understand the specific area of German-written literature that is a part of cultural history of our country. German-Austrian-Czech cultural and literary relationships should be understood as a part of common Middle-European history.
The content of the course: German-written literature in Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, and its traditions, special tendencies. Neoromanticism and the Prague myth.
Main representatives: V.Hadwiger, P. Leppin, G.
Meyrink, R. M.Rilke, and others).
World War I. The establishment of Czechoslovakia.
M. Brod and Prague circle.
Representatives: F. Kafka, O.
Baum, F. Werfel, L.
Winder, E. E.
Kisch., J. Urzidil and others.
The last female author of the Prague-German literary tradition: Lenka Reinerová. The content of the course: Interpretation of selected works (e. g.
Rilke, Kafka, Meyrink).