Czech library

The Czech Library is a predominantly literary book series of Czech works for German-speaking readers. It is based on a funding initiative of the Robert Bosch Foundation and was published by Peter Demetz , Jiří Gruša , Peter Kosta , Eckhard Thiele and Hans Dieter Zimmermann . According to the Börsenblatt , 66 translators and bohemists worked on the publication of texts by 213 Czech authors. It has been published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA) in Munich and Stuttgart since 1999 . The series comprises a total of 33 volumes.

overview

The volumes in detail:

• The dogs of Constantinople. Jan Neruda . 2007
• The hatchet. Ludvík Vaculík . 2006
• Caves deep in the dictionary: Czech poetry of the last decades. 2006 content
• Nothing forces me but love. Božena Němcová . 2006
• It's sweet to live: Czech poetry from its beginnings to 1920. 2006
• The bass saxophone. Josef Škvorecký . 2005
• Spring in Prague or the Paths of Cubism. 2005
• Crossroads of life. Richard Weiner . 2005
• Pilgrims of the day and night. Jakub Deml . 2005
• Adieu muses: anthology of poetism. 2004
• The labyrinth of the world ... and other masterpieces. Johann Amos Comenius . 2004
• Fin de siècle: Czech short stories and short stories. 2004
• Starring seven times. Egon Hostovský . 2004
• Too loud loneliness and other texts. Bohumil Hrabal . 2003
• Man on the country road. Jan Čep . 2003
• Girlfriends from the House of Sadness . Eva Kantůrková . 2003
• Musicians letters. Bedrich Smetana . 2003
• Blood is not water. Josef Jedlička . 2002
• Magister Campanus. Zikmund Winter . 2002
• Czech philosophers in the 20th century. 2002 content
• Czech philosophers from Hus to Masaryk . 2002
• The sad eyes. Ivan Olbracht . 2001
• Conversations with Masaryk. Karel Čapek . 2001
• Polemical writings. Karel Havlíček Borovský . 2001
• The five of us and Jumbo. Karel Poláček . 2001
• The baker Jan Marhoul. Vladislav Vančura . 2000
• Love went with me ... Karel Hynek Mácha . 2000
• Garden party: dramas. 2000 content
• Life with the star. Jiří Weil . 2000
• The unknown person. Milada Součková . 1999
• The Urschweijk and other things from old Europe and the new Russia. 1999 content
• God's rainbow. Jaroslav Durych . 1999
• Hordubal. Karel Čapek . 1999

See also

• Polish library
• Turkish library

References and footnotes

1. ↑ After ten years, the DVA closes its Czech library (August 24, 2007) - accessed on November 19, 2018
2. ↑ cf. 33 Larks over German roofs - pressestelle.tu-berlin.de (July 26, 2007) - accessed on November 19, 2018
3. ↑ DNB ("33 Publications") - accessed on November 19, 2018.

literature

• Steffen Höhne: The Czech Library (available online at bohemia-online.de )
• Jörg Plath: The dream of a literature: Europe's language as the key to understanding . 2007 - bosch-stiftung.de

Web links

• After ten years the DVA closes its Czech library
• Czech library completed after ten years - Radio Prague
• Thirty-three larks fly over the roof
• dtpa.de
• The last volume of the 33-volume "Czech Library" has been published
• TUB: The "Czech Library" is complete - Dr. Kristina R. Zerges Press and Information Office, Technical University Berlin
• perlentaucher.de
• Czech library in 33 volumes
• “Czech Library” was honored with the “Magnesia Litera” literary prize
• Death on the dance floor