Abstrakt
The article analyses the Sorbian exhibitions in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period from several perspectives: On the one hand, it was a matter of projecting the representations of the Lusatian Sorbs among their Czech supporters, who intended to offer a complex but at the same time easily understandable pattern of representation of the Lusatian Sorbs to the wider public. On the level of reception, clearly different interpretations of competition can be observed depending on the recipients: Only slightly, thanks to individual reportages and surveys it is possible to bring the exhibitions closer to the everyday visitors, but in acquiring their media image, texts from the organisers, which followed and emphasised their intended interpretation, and reportages from the "outsiders" (editors or press correspondents who were not in direct contact with the organisers) met.
However, some exhibitions, especially larger ones, were also received in the Sorbian press or visited by agents of the Bautzner Wendenabteilung. Their reports - although from different perspectives - offer quite an interesting reflection on the representation of the Lusatian Sorbs "by the Czechs for the Czechs" from an outside perspective.