Abstract
The article focuses critical writings of Camill Hoffmann, a German writing Jewish poet, translator and journalist (born 1878 in Kolín), published after 1900 in the Viennese weekly Die Zeit. Hoffmann's criticism strived to establish communication between the contexts of Czech and German literatures in Bohemia and, in broader sense in Austria.
His point of departure, shaped by the situation of contemporary young literatures in Prague, both Czech and German, together with his affirmation to the aesthetic principles of Young Vienna opened up a path of interaction between the two hitherto mutually distanced modernist centres. His articles emphasized the intrinsic values of contemporary literature in Bohemia and modified the approach of Die Zeit, a representative Viennese liberal platform, to Czech culture.
In this way it contributed to the the process of its demarginalization.