NJII_94 Prague's German-Jewish Writers

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Zdeněk Mareček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdeněk Mareček, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 G23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Prague used to be an important centre of Jewish culture in Central Europe. "Sippurim", the ancient Jewish stories from Prague, have been published since the middle of the 19th century. Leopold Kompert, the author of the first-published stories from the Jewish ghetto, and Fritz Mauthner, the first systematic critic of the language, were studying in Prague. Authors such as Wiener, Weiss, Baum, Brod, Pick, Winder, Kornfeld, Ungar, Natonek, and Grab have long since been overshadowed by Kafka and Werfel, but they were well known in Prague's contemporary German-speaking community. Finally, H. G. Adler's and Leo Perutz's novels "Eine Reise" and "Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke", published after 1945, were the swan songs of Prague's Jewish literature in German.
Syllabus
  • 1. Fritz Mauthner: Ein Abend im Irrenhause (1914)
  • 2. Gustav Meyrink: Golem (1915)
  • 3. Max Brod: Das tschechisches Dienstmädchen (1909)
  • 4. Oskar Baum: Die Welt im Dunkeln (1909)
  • 5. Ludwig Winder: Der Turnlehrer Pravda (1923)
  • 6. Ernst Weiß: Franta Zlin (1919)
  • 7. Hans Natonek: Wahnsinnig (1920)
  • 8. Hermann Ungar: Die Brüder, Der Bankbeamte (1922 and 1924, resp.)
  • 9. Franz Werfel: Das Trauerhaus (1926)
  • 10. Hermann Grab: Stadtpark (1935)
  • 11. Leo Perutz: Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke (1953)
Literature
  • PAVLÁT, Leo, Jiří FIŠER and Arno PAŘÍK. Židovská Praha. Praha: Lidové noviny. ISBN 80-7106-027-5. info
  • Adler, H. G. Lietrární tvorba pražské školy. Die Dichtung der Prager Schule. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2003.
  • DEMETZ, Peter. Praha černá a zlatá :výjevy ze života jednoho evropského města. Translated by Zdeněk Hron. v čes. jazyce vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 1998, 501 s. ISBN 80-85190-92-3. info
  • STÖLZL, Christoph. Kafkovy zlé Čechy :k sociální historii pražského žida. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Franze Kafky, 1997, 165 s. ISBN 80-85844-28-1. info
  • BROD, Max. Život plný bojů :autobiografie. Praha: Nakladatelství Franze Kafky, 1994. ISBN 80-85844-00-1. info
  • PĚKNÝ, Tomáš. Historie Židů v Čechách a na Moravě. 1. vyd. Praha: Sefer, 1993, 430 s. ISBN 80-900895-4-2. info
  • STÖLZL, Christoph. Kafkas böses Böhmen :zur Sozialgeschichte eines Prager Juden. Ungekürzte, korrigierte aus. Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1975, 147 s. ISBN 3-548-34546-8. info
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
Study Materials
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