Abstract
The chapter presents Goethe's reception especially in the German-speaking public and literature in the Bohemian lands from the end of the 19th to the 1930s of the 20th century and analyzes them in the perspective of the translationality of culture and the appropriation of the classical. The "Handbook of the German Literature of Prague and the Czech Lands" provides - based on the discussion with the previous research and the previously unexplored phenomena - a comprehensive overview of the literature of a Central European region and its development since the Enlightenment.
In doing so, previous conceptualizations, which i.a. originated from a strict separation of the Prague from the so-called Sudeten German literature, are overcome. Rather, the handbook offers a transcultural and regional re-localization of the German-language literature of the Czech lands in the complex sphere of influence and tension between German, Jewish, Czech and Habsburg literature and culture.