The inn "To the King Przemysl"
The inn "Zum König Przemysl" is a student novel published in 1913 by Karl Hans Strobl .
Historical background of the plot
As in Strobl's novel Die Vaclavbude , the framework of the plot is the German-Czech nationality conflict in Bohemia and Moravia in the last third of the 19th century with the so-called Badeni crisis at the center. As Prime Minister of Cisleithanien, Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni issued a language ordinance on April 5, 1897 , which led to a state crisis. The climax were violent riots in late November 1897 in Prague and other Czech cities.
action
The German student Fritz is a member of the (fictional) Prague fraternity Libertas. He lives as a subtenant with the head teacher widow Sidonie Haberbauer in the district behind Prague's Tyn Church . The restaurant "Zum König Przemysl" is located in the same building. This place is a meeting place for Czech (and anti-German) demonstrators and conspirators. After Fritz falls in love with Ludmilla Wanda, the landlord's daughter, she initially rejects him. But when Fritz is in mortal danger in an attack on his fraternity, Ludmilla saves him by hiding him in her room. In the following weeks a romantic love affair develops between the two of them. When the Czech demonstrators find out about this, they take Ludmilla prisoner. When Fritz tries to free her, Ludmilla is killed by the hostage takers, Fritz himself badly wounded.
reception
Egon Erwin Kisch said of Strobl's novel:
"One reads it breathlessly because the literary does not overwhelm the plot."
Secondary literature
Literature on the novel
- Susanne Fritz: The Origin of the "Prague Text". Prague German-language literature from 1895 to 1934 (= Central Europe Studies, Vol. 8), Dresden 2005 ISBN 978-3-937672-32-8
- Raimund Lang : The dramaturge of Prague, Karl Hans Strobl as a student poet , in: Freshness / Becker, Between cosmopolitanism and national narrowing (= Historia Academica Volume 39), Würzburg 2000, p. 137 ff.
- Marta Maschke: The German-Czech nationality conflict in Bohemia and Moravia as reflected in the novels by Karl Hans Strobl , Berlin (dissertation) 2003.
- Doris Multerer: German-Czech contrasts in the Prague student novels by Karl Hans Strobl , Vienna (diploma thesis) 1993.
- Vera Schneider: Guard posts and border crossers. German-speaking authors in Prague and the public creation of national identity , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009 (= Epistemata. Würzburg Scientific Writings. Series Literary Studies; Volume 631)
- Walter G. Wieser: The Prague German student novel , Vienna 1994.
Literature on the historical background of the novel
- Hartmut Lehmann, Silke Lehmann (eds.): The nationality problem in Austria 1848–1918 , Göttingen 1973
- Harald Lönnecker : From “Ghibellinia goes, Germania is coming!” To “People want to people!”. Mentalities, structures and organizations in the German student body in Prague 1866-1914 , in: Sudetendeutsches Archiv München (ed.), Yearbook for Sudeten German museums and archives 1995–2001, Munich 2001, pp. 34–77.
- Harald Lönnecker: "... voluntarily never to leave here ..." The Prague German student body 1867-1945 , Cologne 2008.
- Hans Mommsen: 1897: The Badeni crisis as a turning point in German-Czech relations. In: Detlef Brandes (Ed.): Turning points in the relations between Germans, Czechs and Slovaks 1848–1989. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-572-3 , pp. 111-118.
- Esther Neblich: The Effects of the Baden Language Ordinance of 1897. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-8288-8356-7 .
- Berthold Sutter: The Baden language ordinances from 1897. Böhlau-Verlag, Graz 1960/1965 (2 volumes).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detailed table of contents in Walter G. Wieser: Der Prager deutsche Studentenroman , Vienna 1994, pp. 69–79.