The Schipka Pass

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Undated edition

The Schipkapass is a student novel published in 1908 by Karl Hans Strobl . From the second edition, the novel was titled The Flamanders of Prague .

background

Plot of the novel

The law student Hans Schütz, member of the (fictional) Prague fraternity Germania falls in love with the secretary Midi Kern. The relationship ends after a short time because Hans does not meet the financial requirements of Midis and she turns to another student who is the son of rich parents. Schütz then takes refuge on the Schipka pass to drown his grief in beer. After weeks of desperation, Schütz met the postal worker Helene Findeis by chance. He decides to change and resumes his studies. The novel ends with Helene promising to wait for him. The German-Czech nationality conflict of the late 19th century in Prague is embedded in the novel, with Helene rejecting an advertisement by a Czech painter in favor of the German Hans Schütz.

literature

  • Susanne Fritz: The Origin of the “Prague Text”. Prague German-language literature from 1895 to 1934 . Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937672-32-X , ( Central Europe Studies 8).
  • Raimund Lang : The dramaturge of Prague. Karl Hans Strobl as a student poet . In: Freshness / Becker: Between cosmopolitanism and national narrowing. Five essays . Student History Association of the CC, Herzogenaurach 2000, ISBN 3-930877-34-1 , ( Historia academica 39), 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.
  • Wilhelm Olbrich , Johannes Beer: The novelist: the content of the novels and short stories of world literature . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Karl Hans Strobl : Der Flamänder , in: Paul Nettl (ed.): Alt-Prager Almanach 1927, ZDB -ID 9608-8 , p. 33 ff.
  • Walter G. Wieser: The Prague German student novel in the first four decades of the 20th century . Austrian Society for the Study of Student History, Vienna 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Binder : Where Kafka and his friends were guests . Prague 2000, p. 257.
  2. ↑ Report in Bohemia of May 10, 1906, p. 6.
  3. ^ Eduard Mühle: Mentalities - Nations - Tension Fields: Studies on Central and Eastern Europe , 2001, p. 139 f.
  4. ^ Obituary for Moritz Milde in the Prager Tagblatt
  5. ↑ Detailed table of contents in: Wieser, Der Prager deutsche Studentenroman , Vienna 1994, pp. 56–69.