Bohemia(newspaper)

Title page, 29 September 1909, withFranz Kafka's article "Die Aeroplane in Brescia"("The Aeroplanes at Brescia") below the fold

Bohemiawas a German newspaper published in Prague from 1828 to 1938.

History and profile

The paper started as a supplement of the weeklyPrager Zeitungfrom 1828 to 1835 under various names: first asUnterhaltungsblätter,in 1830 asBohemia oder Unterhaltungsblätter für gebildete Stände,in 1832 asBohemia ein Unterhaltungsblatt,and finally in 1918 asDeutsche Zeitung Bohemia(German newspaper Bohemia). Famous writers for the newspaper includedFranz Kafka,Egon Kisch,Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt,andJohannes Urzidil.

The newspaper was printed by several companies:

• Gottlieb Haase& Sons (1828–1872)
• Bohemia Aktiengesellschaft (1872–1877)
• Frantisek Klutsack (1878)
• Andreas Haase (1879–1919)
• Alfred Korn (1919–1920)
• Verlag Deutsche Zeitung-Aktiengesellschaft (1920–1933)
• Rota-Aktiengesellschaft für Zeitung- und Buchdruck (1933–1938)

The newspaper was terminated in 1938. The archives can be found in theNational Library of the Czech Republic.

Since 2000

From 2000, a German-Czech newspaper (Czech:Česko-Německé noviny Bohemia) took the nameBohemia,continuing theDeutsch-Tschechische Zeitung für gute Nachbarschaft(German-Czech newspaper of good neighbourhood).

External links

• Scanned archives (asDjVu):
  • 1830–1832:Bohemia, oder Unterhaltungsblätter für gebildete Stände,ISSN 1802-6303
  • 1832–1845:Bohemia, ein Unterhaltungsblatt,ISSN 1802-6311
  • 1846–1914:BohemiaArchived2016-05-16 at theWayback Machine,ISSN 1212-6225
  • 1914–1938:Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia,ISSN 1802-6370