Translating in Central Europe. The conceptualization of the translation of the authors of Prague German literature
2016
Abstract
The article asks about the translation activity of the (mostly Jewish) authors of Prague's German literature. While she has often been conceptualized as a "bridge building", Scott Spector saw it as a purely egoistic foundation of a "middle nation", inhabited only by themselves, while Hillel J.
Kieval once again understood it as a "cultural mediation" and Steffen Höhne has spoken even of a "Neo-bohemism". The article concludes with the diagnosis of the inadequacy of all this conceptualizations and advocates for a more complex understanding of translation in the interculturality of Central Europe in the early 20th century.