Prague district
A group of German-speaking writers in Prague around the turn of the century up to 1938 is called the Prague Circle . Max Brod introduced the term in 1966 and differentiates between a narrower Prague circle, to which Franz Kafka , Felix Weltsch , Ludwig Winder , Oskar Baum and himself belong, and another, which includes writers who are connected to the closer circle, such as Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Werfel , Gustav Meyrink or Hugo Bergmann .
Prague was the center of the Bohemian language conflict at the time . An important characteristic of the members of the Prague Circle was that they were alien to German national conceit. The majority of them were of Jewish descent, many spoke the Czech language, and the group was in lively exchange with Czech writers, musicians and artists.
literature
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Max Brod : The Prague Circle. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1966, DNB 456201122 .
- Max Brod: The Prague Circle . With an afterword by Peter Demetz , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-37047-2 (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbücher , Volume 547).
- Max Brod: The Prague Circle . With a foreword by Peter Demetz. Selected Works. Edited by Hans-Gerd Koch and Hans Dieter Zimmermann in collaboration with Barbora Šrámková and Norbert Miller . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1795-6 .
- Margarita Pazi : Five authors of the Prager Kreis , Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Las Vegas 1978, ISBN 3-261-02476-3 (= Würzburg university writings on modern German literary history , Volume 3).
- Andreas Kilcher : Fight for the sovereignty of interpretation. The “Prague Circle” is Max Brod's invention , in: NZZ , 10 August 2016, p. 22.
- Elisabeth Buxbaum : It kafkat and seething and throws and kishes: Der Prager Kreis , Armin Berg Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9502673-2-7 .
- Arno A. Gassmann : Dear Father, Dear God? The father-son conflict among the authors of the inner Prague circle . Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-89621-146-0 .