The aim of the course is to help students understandthe specific area of German-written literature thatis a part of cultural
history of our country. German-Austrian-Czech cultural and literary relationships should be understoodas a part of common
Middle-European history. The content of the course: German-written literaturein Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th
centuries. Neoromanticism and the Prague myth. Main representatives(F. Adler, H. Salus, P. Leppin, G. Meyrink, R. M.Rilke,
L. Perutz and others). World War I. The originof the CSR. M. Brod as the organiser of the "expressionist" generation.
Representaives: F. Kafka, O. Baum, P.Kornfeld, F. Werfel, L. Winder, W. Haas and others. Socialists (E. E. Kisch, F. C.
Weiskopf, R. Fuchs and others). Moravian authors (H. Ungar, E. Weiss). The youngest generation (J. Urzidil, H. Grab). The
last woman author of the Prague-German literary tradition: Lenka Reinerová. The content of the course: Interpretation of
selected works (e. g. Rilke, Meyrink, Kafka, Werfel, Kisch, Winder, Urzidil, Reinerová and others).
Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (17.02.2019)