The Golden Lane

Museumsführer durch das Goldmachergäßchen

A museum guide to the Goldmakers’ Lane featuring rare images, background information and a wealth of details.

According to legend, the...

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Fips’ Birthday

Eine Geschichte aus dem Goldenen Gässchen in Prag

The Golden Lane in Prague. In the past, its charming and colourful little houses were mainly inhabited by simple and poor people. For many...

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Beethoven

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

Beethoven needs no introduction. There are already plenty of accounts of his life and work, and there will undoubtedly be no shortage of...

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Prague

Die Stadt der hundert Türme

Prague is known as the Rome of the North, Kafka’s city, and the City of a Hundred Spires. This illustrated guide features excellent...

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Minibook Franz Kafka

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

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Minibook Golden Prague

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

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Minibook Mucha

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

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Minibook Golden Lane

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

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Prague

Traumstadt an der Moldau

This little booklet is a collection of the must-see sights of Prague: the lofty Castle, the famous Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square with...

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Prague

Goldene Stadt

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excel­lent photography...

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Prague

Die Goldene Stadt

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excellent photography...

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Maria Theresa

Eine Kaiserin in Wort und Bild

Maria Theresa of Austria – a Baroque concerto grosso, a cantata of beauty, magnificence and imperial splendour. Juliana Weitlaner has been...

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Mucha

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

Alphonse Mucha is world famous for his seductively beautiful panneaux and posters. As a decorative artist he shaped the appearance of a...

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Franz Kafka and Prague

Ein Leben in Prag

“Franz Kafka was Prague and Prague was Franz Kafka”, Johannes Urzidil once wrote. And indeed, following the traces of Kafka’s life, your way...

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The Metamorphosis

Night has fallen on Prague’s St Nicholas Street. At long last, silence reigns in the home: father, mother and sisters have gone to bed. Only...

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Letter to Father

The Letter to Father (1919) was never sent but is considered the key to Franz Kafka’s (1883-1924) literary work. This impressive testimony...

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A Country Doctor

Doctor, let me die...

Golden Lane in the wartime winter of 1916/17: Kafka retreats to the quiet of the little house at number 22 for a few...

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The Castle

Ein Roman

“The words that can be said about this book are merely tentative asides. A person must glean for himself line by line how the ominous...

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Lost in America

“The story that I’m writing, which, I must say, is laid out into the endless … is called The Missing One (Der Verschollene) and takes place...

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Meditation

Kafka’s little meditations form something previously unknown in German literature; I know no model.

Hans Kohn in Selbstwehr (Dec. 20, 1912)

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The Trial

“Somebody must have defamed Josef K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. His landlady’s cook, who always...

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A Great Artist One Day

Franz Kafka als bildender Künstler

When we speak of the work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), we instinctively think of his literary work. It is less well known that Kafka also...

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Two Prague Stories

This book is sheer past. Homeland and childhood – both of them long remote – form its background. – Today I would not have written it this...

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Prague

Ein Reiseführer

informative: This compact and detailed guide is packed with interesting and precise descriptions of all the important buildings and...

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Czech Cuisine

Eine kulinarische Reise

Are halušky and škubánky a mys­tery to you? Have you never heard of lívance and vdolky? Then you’re on the right track with this culinary...

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The Best Czech Recipes

Just as in the days of the Emperor, people flock to the Czech Republic today to savour tasty local specialities, ranging from the fine...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

The Prague Golem

Jüdische Sagen aus dem Ghetto

Prague has been one of the most significant cities in European Judaism for many centuries. Alongside notable buildings such as the Old-New...

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The Golem

Once a generation a psychic epidemic sweeps through the Jewish Town with lightning speed, gripping the souls of the living for some purpose...

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Prague Tales from the Little Quarter

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...

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The Grandmother (Babička)

The Czech author Božena Němcová (1820-1862), born in Vienna, paints an entirely unsentimental portrait of the country habits and customs of...

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Elisabeth

Empress of Austria

Austria in 1854: The young Bavarian Duchess Elisabeth takes the hand of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in marriage in the festively...

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Franz Joseph I

Ein Kaiser in Wort und Bild

Franz Joseph defined his era and exemplified the old Austria. Installed on the throne as a young prince in 1848, he governed the Imperial...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

Mozart

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

On a cold January night in 1756, a child is born in Salzburg’s Getreidegasse: his name is to become known across the world: Wolfgang Amadeus...

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Klimt

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

He is the Jugendstil master, the founder of the Vienna Secession; his paintings – which sell for record prices – and his lifestyle are the...

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Egon Schiele

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

Egon Schiele had many faces: the exceptionally talented artistic genius; the sensitive creator of peaceful landscapes and the shameless...

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Czech Fairytales

Just like other European nations, the Czechs have a treasure trove of fairytales that has been lovingly handed down over the centuries. Some...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

Jewish Fairytales and Legends

A Water Prince living in the Moldau, talking animals, flying demons, packs of thieves and kind-hearted folk, intermingled with frequent...

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Folktales and Legends

Once upon a time, every river bend, every mountain peak and every church tower had its own story to tell; adventurers and pitch-burners...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

Austrian Fairytales

aus alten Schriften gesammelt

‘Stick on!’ cries the dashing young man who wants to court the Princess, and soon everyone is stuck to his little magic wagon: the sooty...

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The Imperial City of Baden bei Wien

Baden – a Biedermeier spa town, nestling amid vine-covered hillsides – is home to the Old Town’s charming alleyways, immaculate baths and...

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Vienna

Traumstadt an der Donau

An introduction to Vienna: an encounter with the medieval city, the residence of the Habsburg dynasty and one of Europe’s most important...

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Krambambuli

Die Geschichte eines Hundes

The most well-known Austrian animal story is familiar to generations of readers and has become a true classic, with many film and television...

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Gabriela Salfellner
Harald Salfellner

The Best Imperial Recipes

Vom Tafelspitz bis zum Kaiserschmarren

From Tafelspitz to Kaiserschmarren – the Imperial Court Kitchen was more than just a collection of fine delicacies, prepared by the best...

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Prague Cafés

Exploring the coffee houses of Prague is a rewarding pastime. From the kavárna of old Prague to the jazz café of the music-loving Czechs n...

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The Imperial City of Baden bei Wien

Baden – a Biedermeier spa town, nestling amid vine-covered hillsides – is home to the Old Town’s charming alleyways, immaculate baths and...

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Letters to a Young Poet

At the beginning of 1903, a pupil at the military academy in Wiener-Neustadt, Franz Xaver Kappus, sends a few poems to Rainer Maria Rilke,...

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Škoda

Ein Auto macht Geschichte

In one of the most fascinating technological success stories in the world, Škoda combines the traditions of a hundred-year-old motoring...

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The Spanish Flu

Eine Geschichte der Pandemie von 1918

A hundred years ago, as the First World War came to an end after four brutal years, a lethal pandemic was gaining ground: the Spanish...

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