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Alfred Klaar: berlínské reflexe rodných končin

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Topor M.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2017

vol. 14

issue 27

39-59

The aim of the paper is to develop at least a part of a voice which is still difficult to understand in the Czech language environment, the voice of the others, (ex-rivals), the ‘expelledʼ, and to anchor it in the work and politics of remembering, registering and writing history of one specific author (we are talking about the continuity of perspective: about fidelity to images, local mythology, its logic). For thirty years, Alfred Klaar (born as Karpeles in 1848 in Prague) co-established Prague discourse in German language from various positions (as a journalist, theatre critic, representative of various societies, ceremony speaker, associate professor of the local German polytechnic etc.). When he moved to Berlin in July 1899, he was almost fifty-one years old. He left his home (both in the narrow sense of the word, as well as the wider sense of ‘Austrian homeʼ, so important to him), but he always kept the world he had lived in for so long in his mind and preserved many links with it in spite of the geographical distance. He also returned to his homeland on various occasions (funerals and other ceremonies, lectures) and he also remained talked about primarily among the Prague German circles; as a piece of memorabilia he was dusted and remembered in stories, and at the same time rightfully seen and honoured as a foreign envoy and speaker of compatriot cultural and political interests. Klaar spoke about Prague, his ‘father townʼ, and the lands near the Prussian border through the history of the German-speaking enclave, while Czechs only occurred sporadically in his retrospect writing. He repeated his thesis about an environment destroyed by ‘Slavic egoismʼ and belligerence, he spoke of the role of the German community in Czech lands as a heroic cultural mission, ungratefully displaced by the dominant policy of Czechisation in the second half of the 19th century, which strived to ‘impress upon the city a unilateral Slavic characterʼ. Only with reluctance did he adapt to the factual geopolitical development — he saw the post-war situation of the German minority in Czechoslovakia as a continuation of unfair marginalisation of his fellow countrymen.

"Domorodci" ne/známého "domova": Cesty německých vyhnanců a vysídlenců do Československa a jejich percepce místního obyvatelstva ve vysídleneckých periodikách

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Kreisslová S., Nosková J.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

2020

vol. 107

issue 4

439-468

The study focuses on a specific type of tourism (the so-called Heimat- tourismus) whose main aim is to visit countries, or better said, localities, which expelled and displaced Germans had to abandon after the end of World War II due to forced migration and which they consider(ed) as one of their ‘homes’. After the first unofficial trips, it is possible to observe a gradual increase in organised and individual tourism of displaced Germans to Czechoslovakia since the second half of the 1950s. In this article, we focus on one of the many topics related to Heimattourism, namely reflections of the local population in the former homeland and the stereo - types constructed about locals by Sudeten German tourists. We examine the topic by analysing travel reports published by displaced persons and expellees in their journals since these trips had begun until mid-1960s.

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Alfred Klaar: berlínské reflexe rodných končin

"Domorodci" ne/známého "domova": Cesty německých vyhnanců a vysídlenců do Československa a jejich percepce místního obyvatelstva ve vysídleneckých periodikách