Syllabus
- deutschsprachige Literatur aus böhmischen Ländern
- deutschsprachige Literatur Prags (PDL), ihre Charakteristik und ihre Spezifik
- historische Bedingungen, Beziehungen zur tschechischen Kultur und Literatur, gegenseitige Beeinflussung
- Weltfreunde: Sammelband aus der Konferenz zu PDL - Liblice 1965
- Zeitungen, Zeitschriften, Vereine,Aktivitäten
- Arbeit mit einzelnen Texten
- Rezeption
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Annotation
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(Friedrich Adler, Hugo Salus, Paul Leppin, Gustav Meyrink, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leo Perutz and others). World War I. The originof the ČSR. Max Brod as the organiser of the "expressionist" generation. Representaives: Franz Kafka, Oskar Baum, Paul Kornfeld, Franz Werfel, Ludwig Winder and others.
The content of the course: Interpretation of selected works (e. g. Rilke, Meyrink, Kafka and others).