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Grabenbummel. The National Struggle for Prague at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022

Abstract

"Grabenbummel", a walk of the German Studentenverbindungen in couleur, was one of the most significant displays of a national war over Prague and its public space. Four times between 1898 and 1912 the "bummel" only it became a political t gave opportunity for unrest and riots in the city.

Not opic, a reason f or media conflicts between Czech and Germans in , Bohemian Diet and Imperial Council, but also a very serious problem for the the state and its offices to solve. Based on Czech and German press and archive resources from Národní Archiv České republiky and Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, I t ant topics , am present ing the creation, evolution , and the politicization of the custom.

I examined the four main years of the riots, finding multiple impor and analy z ing some of them in the last chapter. I complemented the thesis with the poems from the press of the Burschenschaften, as well as Czech and German anecdotes and caricatures.