Exile in and from Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s / / edited by Charmian Brinson and Marian Malet.

• Superior document: The yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Brinson, Charmian.; Malet, Marian.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 pages).
• Notes: Papers from a conference held September 2008, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, London.

This volume focuses on a previously under-researched area, namely exile in and from Czechoslovakia in the years prior to the Second World War as well as during the wartime and post-war periods. The study considers, firstly, the refugees from Germany and Austria who fled to Czechoslovakia during the 1930s; secondly, the refugees from Czechoslovakia, both German and Czech-speaking, who arrived in Britain in or around 1938 as refugees from Fascism; and thirdly, those who fled from Communism in 1948. From a variety of perspectives, the book examines the refugees’ activities and achievements in a range of fields, both on a collective and an individual basis. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth century history, politics and cultural studies as well as those involved in Central European Studies and Exile Studies. It will also appeal to a general readership with an interest in Britain and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface / Charmian Brinson and Marian Malet -- Der Mann von Proseč – Über die Familie Mann und Rudolf Fleischmann / Magali Laure Nieradka -- Deutsche Künstler im Prager Exil 1933–1938 / Anna Janištinová -- Hans Jaeger in Prag / Jens Brüning -- ‘Dieser rothaarige, fast immer erregte und Erregung hervorrufende Mann’: Justin Steinfeld und Die Wahrheit / Wilfried Weinke -- Who were the Pre-Second World War Refugees from Czechoslovakia? / Sylva Simsova -- Beginnings of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile 1939–1941 / Milan Hauner -- The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain 1939–1950 / Jana Buresova -- Eleanor Rathbone: Responding to the Czech Refugee Crisis of 1938 / Susan Cohen -- The Czechoslovak Jewish Political Exile in the United Kingdom during World War II / Jan Lánícek -- Czechoslovak Publications issued in Britain during World War II / Devana Pavlik -- Czechoslovak Musicians in British Exile 1939–1945 / Jutta Raab Hansen -- ‘Why is your Czech so bad?’ Czech Child Refugees, Language and Identity / Andrea Hammel -- Publication Prospects for German-Bohemian Writers in London: Ludwig Winder / Jennifer Taylor -- ‘Quamvis sub aqua, sub aqua maledicere temptant’? Johannes Urzidils Stellung zur Frage der Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei von den 1920er Jahren bis in die Nachkriegszeit: eine Stimme im ‘großen Froschteich der Emigration’ / Jörg Thunecke -- Eduard Goldstückers Hoffnung auf einen ‘Sozialismus mit menschlichem Antlitz’ / Ingrid Hudabiunigg -- Ernst Sommer and I / Claudia Rosoux -- Index.