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- Title
Wer ist der bessere Fälscher? Die gefälschten tschechischen Manuskripte im: Nationalitätenkampf um kulturelle Hegemonie.
- Authors
JIČÍNSKÁ, VERONIKA
- Abstract
This article presents the heated debate within and between Czech and German communities in Bohemia at the end of the 19th century over the authenticity of two medieval Czech manuscripts – the Manuscript of the Queen’s Court, and the Manuscript of Green Mountain –, allegedly discovered in 1817. While the fight originated at the time of the manuscripts’ »discovery« in 1817, the struggle resumed in 1886 with far-reaching consequences for an emergent, politically and culturally effective Czech nationalism. In response, German writers such as Fritz Mauthner and Hans Watzlik ridiculed Czech nationalist efforts without themselves being free of exacerbated nationalism and prejudice. It will be shown how this fight for cultural hegemony and the political and textual ambiguities that attended it was closely linked to problems of translation and literary authenticity.
- Subjects
MANUSCRIPTS; NATIONALISM; MAUTHNER, Fritz; CULTURAL hegemony; DISPUTED authorship; CZECH literature
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Germanistik, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1869-3660
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14361/zig-2014-0207